Alternatives to download magnet links

[Da-Juan]

libtorrent is nice but not available on Pypi so it's difficult to install in a virtualenv.

I found 2 alternatives:

• use libtmux to send commands to rtorrent running in a tmux (but the author is searching for a maintainer)

  import libtmux
  m = 'magnet:?...'
  server = libtmux.Server()
  session = server.find_where({ "session_name": "rtorrent" })
  window = session.attached_window
  pane = window.attached_pane
  pane.enter()
  # suppress_history=False is needed or it will add an invisible character before the magnet link
  # and rtorrent won't accept it
  pane.send_keys(m.strip(), suppress_history=False)

• use rtorrent's XMLRPC interface (but it needs an nginx or apache configured)