rtorrent_addtime.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Sets the addtime field used by Flood to a torrent inside rtorrent.
# First argument is the infohash of the torrent to be modified.
INFO_HASH="$1"
# 
TIMESTAMP=$(date +%s)
# Hostname and port where rtorrent is listening (network.scgi.open_port)
HOST="localhost"
PORT=5000

read -rd "\0" XMLRPC <<XMLRPC
<?xml version='1.0' encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<methodCall>
<methodName>d.custom.set</methodName>
<params>
<param>
  <value>
   <string>${INFO_HASH}</string>
  </value>
</param>
<param>
  <value>
   <string>addtime</string>
  </value>
</param>
<param>
  <value>
   <string>${TIMESTAMP}</string>
  </value>
</param>
</params>
</methodCall>
XMLRPC

NULL="<00>";

HEADERS="CONTENT_LENGTH${NULL}$(echo -n "$XMLRPC" | wc -c)${NULL}SCGI${NULL}1${NULL}REQUEST_METHOD${NULL}POST${NULL}REQUEST_URI${NULL}/RPC2${NULL}";
REQUEST="$(echo -n "${HEADERS}" | sed 's:<00>:\x00:g' | wc -c):${HEADERS},${XMLRPC}";
echo -n "$REQUEST" | sed 's:<00>:\x00:g' | nc "$HOST" "$PORT"