mediadepot/rtorrent repository overview

⁠Requirements

⁠Environmental

The following environmental variables must be populated, when running container

• DEPOT_USER,
• DEPOT_PASSWORD

⁠Ports

The following ports must be mapped, when running container

• 8081 #webui listen
• 5000 rtorrent XMLRPC port.
• 6881-6891 #daemon listen ports

⁠Volumes

The following volumes must be mapped, when running container

• /srv/rtorrent/config
• /srv/rtorrent/data
• /mnt/blackhole
• /mnt/processing
• /mnt/downloads

The following subfolders should exist in the above mapped volumes:

• /mnt/blackhole/tvshows
• /mnt/blackhole/movies
• /mnt/blackhole/music
• /mnt/downloads/tvshows
• /mnt/downloads/movies
• /mnt/downloads/music

⁠References

• https://github.com/chamunks/alpine-rtorrent⁠
• https://freedif.org/flood-modern-web-ui-for-rtorrent/⁠
• https://superuser.com/questions/389621/rtorrent-different-default-save-directories-for-different-autolaunch-directori⁠
• https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/wiki/TORRENT-Watch-directories⁠
• https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1s8kt1/rtorrent_how_to_watch_multiple_folders_and_save/⁠
• https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/wiki/Common-Tasks-in-rTorrent#move-completed-torrents-to-a-dynamic-location⁠
• https://github.com/jfurrow/flood⁠
• https://github.com/nickvanw/alpine-rtorrent/blob/master/Dockerfile⁠
• https://github.com/Wonderfall/dockerfiles/blob/master/rtorrent-flood/Dockerfile⁠
• https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issues/1237⁠

⁠TODO list

• catchall watch folder (/mnt/blackhole/*.torrent) should work correctly and download to "unsorted"
• dynamic watch directories
  • remove the torrent from the watch directory once its loaded⁠
  • auto-start watch directory torrents
• download all torrents to /mnt/processing directory
• [?] redirect rtorrent daemon logs to STDOUT
• move completed downloads into dynamic /mnt/downloads subdirectories. 1⁠ 2⁠
• DEPOT default user/password authentication for webui
• auto-labeling by watch folder compatible with flood
• [-] scheduling/QoS⁠
• Auto cleanup? Completed torrents that are stopped and older than 2 months?
• stop seeding when download is complete⁠
• Performance tuning⁠
• logrotate
• better logging. ⁠
• ensure that deleting a partially downloaded/inprogress torrent will actually delete the associated data
  • when deleting a torrent we should always delete the .torrent file too
  • when deleting a torrent, sometimes the download directory is not deleted.