Cron task to delete torrents from rtorrent after 48 hours of seeding.

clean-rtorrent.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Close torrents in rtorrent after x hours of seeding
# dependencies:  libxmlrpc-core-c3-dev, bc, nginx
# https://github.com/mdevaev/emonoda/wiki/rTorrent-XMLRPC-Reference
# http://elektito.com/2016/02/10/rtorrent-xmlrpc/
x=48

SERVER=localhost:8000
now=$(date +%s)

xmlrpc $SERVER download_list "" complete | while read line; do
        l="$(echo "$line" | grep Index)"
        if [ -n "$l" ]; then
                h="$(echo "$l"|cut -d' ' -f5 | tr -d "'" )"
                t=$(xmlrpc $SERVER d.timestamp.finished "$h"\
                        |grep integer\
                        |cut -d ' ' -f3)
                diff="$(echo "($now-$t)/3600"| bc)"
                if [ $diff -gt $x ]; then
                        echo $h
                        xmlrpc $SERVER d.close $h
                        xmlrpc $SERVER d.erase $h
                fi
        fi
done