Thread: Upload New Torrents Through Seedbox ?

Hi,




I would like to know is it possible that if you have a file and you know its not available on some tracker and you want to upload it there but via your seedbox to gain maximum speed?

and secondly if it is possible then how do you do it? a step by step help would be great.

If you are using rutorrent, you can get a plugin that allows you to create new torrents. {This may already be there, you'll need to check}
PluginCreate - rutorrent - Create plug-in description - Project Hosting on Google Code

PluginCreate Create plug-in description

Introduction

The plug-in provides ability to create .torrent files. After plug-in installation there will be a new item "Create torrent..." in the commands menu, which shows the following dialogue:

1. "Select Source" - type here path to contents, which you wish to seed. Before specifying a path you have to decide, whether you will distribute one file or several. If you create torrent from several files, these files should be placed in one folder. There should be nothing in this folder except them.
2. "Trackers" - the list of trackers on which seeding will take place. Different tracker groups have to be separated from each other with an empty line.
3. "Comment" - it is possible to add comments to torrent (these comments will be displayed at the bottom on the tab "Common" of ruTorrent).
4. "Piece size" - at torrent creation its contents are split up for small parts, which are more convenient in transmission and handle. By means of this option you can select the size of parts. The common rule is that: the more the contents size, the larger should be and the size of parts. In most cases there will be enough to leave default value for this parameter (256К)
5. "Start seeding" - loads created torrent into rTorrent automatically, right after process completion. In certain cases it is necessary to disable this function. For example, if the site, on which loading will be fulfilled, requires torrent "re-downloading" for seeding (it occurs if the site requires password or cookies). If this option is not selected, you should load torrent into the rTorrent for seeding manually.
6. "Private torrent" - disables DHT (Distributed Hash Table) and PEX (Peer EXchange), which are alternative ways of peers reception instead of tracker. It is especially useful if tracker is unavailable for any reason. However some private sites do not allow to use these functions as it does not allow to trace seeding coefficients properly. At the same time site members can seed torrents to non-registered users.
7. "Create and save as..." - is the last step of torrent creation. Procedure is absolutely similar to file saving in any other application.

Known lacks

The plug-in cannot see and does not handle files, that are more than 2 gigabytes in size. This trouble is caused by php limitation on operations with the big files. Pay attention - the total downloading size can exceed 2Gb. Limitation concerns only each individual file of downloading.
Since the plug-in version of 1.1 there is a possibility to bypass this limitation. For this purpose it is necessary to install the program createtorrent, and to customize a plug-in in appropriate way.
Additional customization

Since the plug-in version of 1.1 it is made in the file plugins/create/conf.php.

1. $useExternal - if the given variable is true, external program createtorrent will be used for .torrent file creation.
2. $pathToCreatetorrent - the variable with the path to the program createtorrent. If it's value is empty line (by default), createtorrent will be searched in PATH for a web server user. The given option makes sense only if $useExternal=true.

Good luck

Thanx alot bro for all the help. I am using utorrent webUI... will this work with it too

No, that is for rtorrent's web interface rutorrent. I personally haven't used utorrent webUI, however according to this thread, How to create a torrent in WebUIGuI ? - Forums - µTorrent - The Lightweight and Efficient BitTorrent Client It is not possible to create a new torrent within the webUI.

I believe the easiest method is make a new torrent on your computer (you can use utorrent on your computer), transfer files to seedbox and download torrent from tracker and set download location (where you uploaded to) and it'll work.

If you have shell access, you can create torrents though putty. Let me know and i'll see if i can help you out (I'll post up a guide)

Ya it's not possible with utorrent webui only rutorrent.

I know it's possible with any of the rtorrent Gui (rutorrent, wTorrent) or transmission.
Sorry, not familiar with webUIGui , but it shouldn't be to hard to get rtorrent installed.
Then you'll have lot's more help.

Hi and sorry for bumping an old thread, but I have the same question. What if I need to upload files larger than 2 GB ? (I don't think I can edit the plugin since I am on a shared seedbox).

Thanks a lot.

If you have the files on your computer and want to upload to a seedbox for initial seeding, the easiest method is to simply create the torrent file on your computer, upload the folder with your files in it, then upload the torrent file to your seedbox's client.

Only way to do this with µTorrent WebUI is by having the same files on your pc and on the seedbox. Then you can create the torrent on your pc and seed with the seedbox. I have done it like this and it works fine although it is a bit of a pain to have the files at both places before you can make the torrent. Especially if you home internet speed sucks.