Transmission handler for sevabot. Requires: https://github.com/edavis/transmission-fluid

addtorrent.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys

from transmission import Transmission, BadRequest

SETTINGS = {
	'host': '127.0.0.1',
  	'port': 9090,
	'username': 'foo',  # Comment out if no authentication is needed
	'password': 'bar',  # Same as above
	'ssl': False,
}


def add_torrent(filename):
	if filename:
		client = Transmission(**SETTINGS)
		try:
			response = client('torrent-add', filename=filename)
			if 'torrent-added' in response:
				return 'Torrent "{}" added! (sun)'.format(response['torrent-added']['name'])
			elif 'torrent-duplicate' in response:
				return 'Torrent already added for: {}'.format(response['torrent-duplicate']['name'])
			else: 
				return 'Error interpreting response from transmission! Raw: "{}"'.format(response)
		except BadRequest as br_err:
			return 'BadRequest: {}'.format(br_error)
		except ValueError as value_err:
			return 'Error parsing returned JSON: {}'.format(value_err)
	else:
		return 'You must provide a torrent link to download.'


if len(sys.argv) < 2:
	sys.exit('You must provide a torrent link to download.')

result = add_torrent(sys.argv[1])
print result.encode('utf-8')