Extending it to be a NAS downloader

[razfag]

I'm wondering of you've got any insights implementing something like this:

• service that runs on a NAS and watches a a bunch of folders using inotify for torrent files
• once a new torrent file is found it mounts it using btfs
• only download the main file, if it's a video just download the mp4 into the folder where the torrent file was, no folders, etc...
• for torrent with multiple large files download it as is
• if the file is not accessed behave like a regular bittorrent client
• after download finishes it should return to being a regular file

I'm thinking of turning it into a library and then python library and build a somewhat general purpose bittorrent client around it (perhaps with django)

[johang]

I think this is possible to do, but currently btfs will start downloading all files once it's mounted.

[razfag]

I'd have to look into the libtorrent docs on how to add that functionality then.

Perhaps a --no-folders option and a --min-filesize one. Too bad that there are no comments :)