Autodl

autodl-irssi is a plugin for irssi that monitors IRC announce channels and downloads torrent files based on user-defined filters.

Initial Setup

Installing autodl is easy. Simply issue the following command from SSH:

sudo box install autodl

This command will configure autodl and the associated ruTorrent plugin.

How to Access

Autodl is a plugin for the console IRC client, irssi. Thus, autodl doesn't have a graphical user interface of its own. You can either add rules with the ruTorrent plugin (the only GUI option), or write them by hand in the file: ~/.autodl/autodl.cfg

You can attach directly to the running irssi screen with:

screen -r irssi

To detach again, press: control-a, control-d

Service Management

The systemd script for irssi (the main client for the autodl plugin) can be found at

/etc/systemd/system/irssi@.service

As a multi-user script, you must call it with the username to change the service status for.

Status

sudo systemctl status irssi@<username>

Start

sudo systemctl start irssi@<username>

Stop

sudo systemctl stop irssi@<username>

Restart

sudo systemctl restart irssi@<username>

Enable

sudo systemctl enable irssi@<username>

Disable

sudo systemctl disable irssi@<username>

Configuration

Configuration options for the GUI client can be found here. The options will be found under the header "Usage".

If you don't want to use the ruTorrent plugin and would prefer to configure the configuration files by hand, you can read the autodl-irssi documentation for an in-depth review of the available options.