Thread: How to downloadcompleted files from rTorrent?

Hello,



I am newbie in this things. After following some tutorials here , I was able to set up rtorrent on my server. Now I can access it from ipaddress/rtorrrent However I couldn't figure out how I can download a file to my hard drive after it is finished downloading on rtorrent. I've tried ipaddress/rtorrent/completed but I get a 404. I'm sorry if this is silliy but please help me put.

i guess you need to install http plugin to download files via http
or better way you can access ur server files via ftp with clients line filezilla or cuteftp

Do you have a dedicated server, a VPS or a seedbox? What operating system is it running? Maybe you can give us a link to your hosters website, that we can see what you are working with.

As don_rocks said, you probably want to use ftp.

As the above post's say...the best way is to use an FTP Client. The most popular I see here are Filezilla and CuteFTP (Filezilla is freeware)

Just download one of those and enter your seedbox's IP address and username and password and then you're all set!!

Most people use ftp/sftp to download. If you are on windows I use WinSCP on MAC I use CyberDuck.

Personally I prefer to download from my seedbox via rsync. I setup an rsync server on my home computer via deltacopy. I then wrote a script that pushes the files to my home server via a cron job every few hours. Then the files are already on my home computer when I need them. If you would like help setting that up let me know.

Hi,

Thank you for your kind response everyone. I'm a noob as I've said. So please bear with me. I used ftp and I was able to download files. But the ftp speed is really low. What I wanted is to download them from http with Internet Download Manager. I figured out how to do that. You click on the completed file and click 'get file'.

But one problem is that those download links are not resumeable. Which is bad for large files. Can anyone help me with that?


I set up rtorrent on Aamazon EC2 with nginx. Its running on Ubuntu oneric.

Your best bet would be to setup your web server to have a have an alias to the directory where your files are downloaded to. Then protect that directory with an .htaccess file.

example:

server.com/downloads could map to /home/user/downloads

apache could accomplish this rather easily.

deadwings, this is a common misunderstanding. FTP does support resume and it's download speed is in no way worse than IDMs. For the resume part your server and ftp program have to support it. But as you probably just copy the ftp ink to IDM i guess your server already does. As you are not giving any information on what software and server you are using I can only guess. So I just quote myself from another thread:

IDM is using a ftp connection as well to download the data. Your slow download speed is not coming from using the ftp protocoll, but not using multiple connections (segmented download). This is what IDM is doing by itself. It splits the file you are downloading and downloads multiple parts at the same time. Hence the increased download speed. Instead of awkwardly copying the download link, you should set up smartftp to do exactly this, segmented downloading. It's a bit late, so I make it short:

1) start your download in smartftp
2) in the transfer queue window (bottom) set the workers to 10
3) right-click your download in the transfer queue window and choose properties
4) go to advanced
5) set Multi Part Transfers to enable

You might have to experiment with the settings of workers in the transfer queue window and the number of workers/part in the properties window. If you want to know more i can make some screenshots tomorrow.

Originally Posted by sanoru

deadwings, this is a common misunderstanding. FTP does support resume and it's download speed is in no way worse than IDMs. For the resume part your server and ftp program have to support it. But as you probably just copy the ftp ink to IDM i guess your server already does. As you are not giving any information on what software and server you are using I can only guess. So I just quote myself from another thread:

Thanks you for the reply.

When did I refuse to give information about my software and server? :) I did in my previous post. Anyways as said before I'm running ubuntu oneric with nginx on Amazon ec2