remote-torrent-adder

A handy Chrome extension to add torrent files to torrent clients.

What is this about?

The Chrome Web Browser - albeit an excellent browsing tool - does not permit its extensions a lot of access into its functionality. Hence, an extension that would download a .torrent file and automatically open it in the user's BitTorrent client locally can't be easily implemented. Remote Torrent Adder utilizes the WebUIs of modern BitTorrent clients to implement the functionality required for this scenario - and it works locally as well as for BitTorrent clients on other machines!

It supports the following BitTorrent clients:

• ruTorrent
• flood (jesec)
• qBittorrent (v5+)
• BiglyBT Web Remote (formerly Vuze (formerly Azureus))
• Deluge
• Elementum
• Transmission
• Porla (new!)
• Tixati
• QNAP DownloadStation

How do i get it running?

To get this set up, follow these steps:

1. Get the extension added to your Chrome Browser by visiting https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oabphaconndgibllomdcjbfdghcmenci
2. Open the extension's options and set your server(s)'(s) info
3. If just clicking a link doesn't add the torrent to your client, but downloads it locally to your disk, also look at the "Link Catching" tab in the settings.

Changes from RTA v1.x

With Chrome enforcing Manifest V3, a rewrite of the extension (RTA v2.x) resulted in various changes in terms of features.

Ditched support for some old clients

• qbittorrent 4.x and older
• non-jesec flood
• torrentflux
• vuze swing ui & html ui (just use bigly's web remote)
• pyrt
• synology, QNAP, & buffalo - i don't have the hardware to test those so if anybody can support me in re-implementing them, hit me up
• nodeJSrTorrent, rtorrent XML-RPC
• µtorrent
• hadouken (the maintainer recommends porla)

Features

• link scan delay is gone. actually no longer necessary since we now use a mutation observer that discovers dynamic changes to the page as they happen
• context menu is always generated instead of being togglable
• new tab catching is gone. not sure if that ever worked properly in the recent past, couldn't get it to work
• address bar indicator has not been a thing since like 2016? extension icon always exists anyway