Raspberry Torrent Server

Project Description

This is my first project with a raspberry pi. It’s not big deal and what is more I’ve already dismantled it. However, I wanted to write this post anyway.

I wanted a torrent server that would automatically download my favorites anime series without any human intervention and I prefer the idea of having my raspberry pi running all day instead of a full server.

Although it was my original idea, the external HDD configuration is outside of the scope.

The system is divided in two components; deluge as my torrent client and flexget as my automation tool for downloading and handling content.

I choosed deluge instead of transmission or utorrent because it let me set some useful configuration on each torrent; for example the destination folder, the file name, the ratio, and above all, to remove torrents after reaching a ratio limit.

And flexget it’s just awesome. Let’s see what happens when a new torrent appears on a torrents rss feed.

1. The .torrent file will be downloaded.
2. The series name, season and chapter’s information will be detected by the torrent’s filename.
3. Extra information for the chapter will be downloaded from http://www.thetvdb.com.
4. The .torrent file will be uploaded to deluge.
5. Some configurations will be set on the file that is being downloaded by deluge
   • The destination directory for the file written in this way: <series_name>/<season_number>
   • The file name written in this way: <series_name>_S<season_number>E<chapter_number>.
   • The upload limit ratio.
   • The remove after upload limit configuration.
6. A pushbullet message will be sent to my mobile device.

It’s really awesome!!!

Configuration

The whole tutorial is based on a Raspbian image.

Install Deluge and Deluge Dependencies

sudo apt-get purge xserver.* x11.* xarchiver xauth xkb-data console-setup xinit lightdm lxde.* python-tk python3-tk scratch gtk.* libgtk.* openbox libxt.* lxpanel gnome.* libqt.* libxcb.* libxfont.* lxmenu.* gvfs.* xdg-.* desktop.* tcl.* shared-mime-info penguinspuzzle omxplayer gsfonts
sudo apt-get --yes autoremove
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install deluged deluged-webui
sudo apt-get install libgnutls28 libgnutlsxx28 libgnutls-dev

The last line is about solving this issue.

Create Deluge’s Init Script

Add deluge user

sudo adduser --system --group --home /var/lib/deluge deluge

And then use it in this tutorial to create deluge’s init script.

Afterwards go to <raspberry-pi-ip>:8112 to check that is working.

The default password is deluge.

Configure Deluge For Flexget Access

sudo -u deluge vi /var/lib/deluge/.config/deluge/auth

And add this line to end of the file

<a_username>:<a_password>:10

Flexget instalation

sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev
sudo pip install flexget

And then follow this flexget tutorial.

Flexget Configuration

You really should look at Fleget documentation but just for the record here is my anime flexget configuration file.

templates:
  series:
    thetvdb_lookup: yes
    deluge:
      username: ausername
      password: apassword 
      main_file_only: yes
      ratio: 2
      removeatratio: yes
    exec: "mkdir -p \"{{ movedone }}\""
    pushbullet:
      apikey: "an-api-key"
      title: "Downloading {{ series_name }}"
      body: "Season {{ tvdb_season }}, Episode {{ tvdb_ep_id }}. Original title {{ title }}"
tasks: 
  anime_feed:
    priority: 1
    template: series
    rss:
      url: http://www.nyaa.se/?page=rss&cats=1_37&filter=2
      all_entries: no
    configure_series:
      settings:
        quality: "1080p"
        from_group:
          - Hiryuu
          - tsuki
          - yibis
          - horriblesubs
          - A-destiny
      from:
        listdir:
          - /path/to/anime/folder 
    set:
      path: "/path/to/download"
      movedone: "/path/to/anime/folder/{{ series_name }}/S{{ tvdb_season }}"
      content_filename: "{{ series_name }}.{{ tvdb_ep_id }}"

Hope it helps.