Removing completed torrents from Transmission using the RPC API for transmission

UPDATE THE LIBRARY USED HERE IS OLD /UNMAINTAINED there is a new Python library called "transmission-rpc" note the -hyphen. I've been using a shell script to do the same work it uses the CLI so is more portable/compatible as it's in lockstep with changes to transmission. There is a new post. here https://broadbandwheeze.blogspot.com/2023/08/installing-transmission-using-docker-in.html 

After running torrents from my PC I moved the whole setup to a headless SBC (Orange Pi One and Rasberry Pi 2) one of the common questions for lights out operation is: How to manage completed transfers, so that an endless list of idle torrents does not build up, without losing any downloads?

I have a cron job that purges each server. See my previous post on how to automatically add items using an RSS feed.

The script below connects to the transmission server and scans the torrent list removing items that are 100% ie done.

The count of files removed is written to a log file. The program outputs the items deleted though this is not logged for brevity.


#!/usr/bin/python

import sys, os
import feedparser
import transmissionrpc
import argparse
import datetime

# Read the torrents on the server...
kc=0
tc=transmissionrpc.Client('192.168.0.143',port=9091)
t=tc.get_torrents()
for key in t:
#for torrent in tc.items():
        if key.isFinished:
                print 'Removing Seed Complete', key.name
                tc.remove_torrent(key.id)
        else:
                if key.percentDone == 1:
                        print 'Removing Download Complete',key.name
                        kc=kc+1
                        tc.remove_torrent(key.id) #Retains data. Torrent is removed




sttime = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y%m%d_%H:%M:%S - ')
le = "Purge run. " + str(kc) +" file(s) removed."
log = '/root/purgeloft.log'
with open(log, 'a') as logfile:
        logfile.write(sttime + le + '\n')