GSoC 2009/Projects/BitTorrent plugin for Canola

BitTorrent plugin for Canola - GSoC 2009 Project

• Student: Lauri Võsandi
• Mentor: Luis Felipe Strano Moraes
• Repository: http://gitorious.org/canola-bittorrent-plugin

Intro

The purpose of this project is to develop a BitTorrent plugin for Canola2.

Features

• Browse RSS feeds of several (legal) torrent sites. Includes detailed view of feed entry
• Allow seaching torrent sites: The Pirate Bay, Mininova and LegalTorrents
• Download torrents using built-in BitTorrent 3. Includes detailed view of download
• Download torrents using locally running Transmission via JSON RPC interface
• Manage torrent downloads on remote Transmission instance
• Allows accessing password protected remote instances of Transmission via standard URL format: http://user:pass@host:9091
• Respects your Canola settings of download folder
• Allows adding, modifying, deleting and renaming RSS feeds
• Allows adding, modifying, deleting and renaming Transmission hosts

To-do

• Make possible to choose between built-in BitTorrent engine and running Transmission for local downloads
• Consistent terminology among the source code (leechers vs peers for example)
• Save some of the runtime options to SQL database included in Canola (SQL table for dict perhaps?)

Other ideas

• Allow searching in RSS feed
• Allow browsing Torrent contents and playback of retrieved media.
• Clean up download view and feed entry view
• Clean up menus
• Debug

Installing and usage

Please follow manual here

Reports

First report, a bit late tough :P

Second report, some new stuff

Third report, we're approaching finish soon

Final report