GSoC 2009/Projects/BitTorrent plugin for Canola
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BitTorrent plugin for Canola - GSoC 2009 Project
- Student: Lauri Võsandi
- Mentor: Luis Felipe Strano Moraes
- Repository: http://gitorious.org/canola-bittorrent-plugin
INTRO
The purpose of this project is to develop a BitTorrent plugin for Canola2.
Features
- Browse RSS feeds of several (legal) torrent sites. Includes detailed view of feed entry
- Download torrents using built-in BitTorrent 3. Includes detailed view of download
- Download torrents using locally running Transmission via JSON RPC interface
- Manage torrent downloads on remote Transmission instance
- Allows accessing password protected remote instances of Transmission via standard URL format: http://user:pass@host:9091
- Respects your Canola settings of download folder
- Allows adding, modifying, deleting and renaming RSS feeds
- Allows adding, modifying, deleting and renaming Transmission hosts
To-do
- Add download destination choice for feed entry view
- Add upload bitrate limit option
- Add connection limit option
- Make possible to choose between built-in BitTorrent engine and running Transmission for local downloads
- Clean up download view and feed entry view
- Clean up menus
- Debug
Beta version
To install on your Nokia internet tablet, point your web browser to:
http://v6sa.itcollege.ee/shared/canola/canola2-torrent-plugin-0.1-maemo4.deb
Follow your application manager dialogs and you're done!
NB! You are expected to have Canola2 installed on your device!
License: Mixed Free Software licenses
Done
This is multi-purpose torrent plugin, so far I have completed
- Management of Transmission instances on several hosts:
- Pause, resume, remove torrents.
- Show done/total sizes and up/download speeds.
- Options panel includes Pause all and Resume all.
- Hosts and their login information is stored in Canola's SQL database.
- This allows user to manage their downloads on desktop, laptop, router etc.
- Painless management of local Transmission instance on the tablet
- Starts Transmission minimized and paused if required.
- Reads Transmission settings automatically or resets them.
- Using separate process allows user to exit Canola while keeping their downloads running.
- Read RSS feeds of several (legal) torrent websites.
- Add linked torrents to running Transmission instances (currently adds to local Transmission only).
- Respects your download folder location set in Canola settings panel
- This allows user easily to browse new media availible and start downloading with single click.
- Manipulation of host list.
- You can also enter passworded Transmission instances in the standard URL format: http://user:pass@host:9091
- Manipulation of feed list
- I have successfully forked pure-python BitTorrent 3, cleaned up the code and integrated it to my plugin. Basic functions seem to be working. Will update Debian package ASAP.
- Fullscreen view of feed entry:
- Title
- Updated
- Description
- Fullscreen view of download details:
- Big progress bar
- Pieces downloaded/verified
- Total size
- Peers
- Seeders
- Upload rate
- Download rate
To-Do
- Fullscreen view of feed item:
- In Options panel choice for download destination (which Transmission instance)
- Allow browsing Torrent contents and playback of retrieved media.
- Add feature to search in RSS feeds
Reports
First report, a bit late tough :P