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When I first came to Linux I adopted Transmission. It seemed less featureful than others but now I like its simplicity, does everything it needs and it is also very reliable.

It is not very known but there actually is a transmission-cli for common torrent operations that may come in handy some time.

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FYI, transmission-cli is considered deprecated by the Transmission developers. Using both transmission-daemon and transmission-remote is the recommended approach. Actually, transmission-cli uses transmission-daemon internally and they share the same configuration. transmission-cli is still useful for one-off downloads, but I still prefer the recommended way because I'd like to seed older torrents some more time.

> transmission-cli is considered deprecated

Wah! Bad news! I like to kick off a download from an SSH shell. Now I have to find out what transmission+remote is.

You could also check out rtorrent: http://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/, but I remember reading that development has stalled on that project.

aria2 can download a torrent from a magnet link given as CLI parameter.

I was greatly disappointed too when I found out about transmission-cli's deprecation, but I have since found and replaced all uses of it with stig[1] which, for me, does the same thing and more.

[1] https://github.com/rndusr/stig

You can still do that

   $ transmission-remote -a one.torrent two.torrent

I'm not a user of transmission-cli in general, but transmission-create (part of transmission-cli) is indispensable for me.

There's also the Transmission Remote GUI, which is a nice GUI for remotely controlling the Transmission daemon, on say, a NAS: https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui

It's great for keeping downloads going overnight without having to leave all the power-hungry devices powered on.

FWIW, qbittorrent also has a built-in web interface. It's also one of the most feature-rich BitTorrent clients.

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent

And you can install it with just the web interface as qbittorrent-nox.

It's a great piece of software. I'm running a web remote v2.92 on an rpi with simple basic auth protection, and it has been working flawlessly for years now.

Back in my day, I was running Transmission on a WRT350N router…

It was quite an ordeal to set up before there were DD-WRT builds where it was integrated into the build.

Ran it on a NSLU2 in the past. Worked great. Brilliant piece of software.

The cli is also used by Fragments, a Gnome torrent app.

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