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Apple appears to hate torrents and basically any torrent-related app because I guess they enable piracy. They're not wrong - that would be the #1 use of any tor

Apple appears to hate torrents and basically any torrent-related app because I guess they enable piracy. They're not wrong - that would be the #1 use of any torrent app - but I do find that restriction repressive. That said, many torrent servers support a web-based interface which you should be able to control easily with Safari. If you need something more custom, there's plenty of good SSH clients on the App Store and most will support fancy screen/tmux/TUI interfaces so you can control your command-line torrent client. And, well, there's always the option of slapping something together with Python, using the Pythonista app; if the protocol is popular odds are someone's written a Python package to interact with it, at which point you just have to decide how much of a GUI (or TUI) you want to put on it.

austhrow743 7y ago
>That said, many torrent servers support a web-based interface which you should be able to control easily with Safari. Yeah the deluge webui is what I use on the desktop. Doesn't play nicely with ios safari at all though. >If you need something more custom, there's plenty of good SSH clients on the App Store and most will support fancy screen/tmux/TUI interfaces so you can control your command-line torrent client. I ended up just installing an ftp client. 90% of what I wanted to do was add torrents and I can do that just by uploading to a watch folder. Although your mention of ssh reminds me that I first tried to set up a shortcut that ssh'd the torrent over instead, which would be a preferable set up if it worked. It creates the file on my server but the file size stays at 0 bytes and the shortcut never finishes running. Any idea what I did wrong? https://i.imgur.com/dbjZtEH.jpg https://i.imgur.com/dbjZtEH.jpg
- nneonneo 7y ago
  Yeah, shortcuts aren’t like UNIX pipes, so “cat >” will create the file but cat will hang forever waiting for data to come in over stdin. I’m guessing you’ll need an scp-type command rather than an ssh command since you need to copy a local file over to the remote end.
  - austhrow743 7y ago
    Unfortunately Shortcuts only allows for running scripts over ssh, not just general terminal commands. I might be out of luck on this one.

austhrow743 7y ago

>That said, many torrent servers support a web-based interface which you should be able to control easily with Safari. Yeah the deluge webui is what I use on the desktop. Doesn't play nicely with ios safari at all though. >If you need something more custom, there's plenty of good SSH clients on the App Store and most will support fancy screen/tmux/TUI interfaces so you can control your command-line torrent client. I ended up just installing an ftp client. 90% of what I wanted to do was add torrents and I can do that just by uploading to a watch folder. Although your mention of ssh reminds me that I first tried to set up a shortcut that ssh'd the torrent over instead, which would be a preferable set up if it worked. It creates the file on my server but the file size stays at 0 bytes and the shortcut never finishes running. Any idea what I did wrong? https://i.imgur.com/dbjZtEH.jpg https://i.imgur.com/dbjZtEH.jpg

nneonneo 7y ago
Yeah, shortcuts aren’t like UNIX pipes, so “cat >” will create the file but cat will hang forever waiting for data to come in over stdin. I’m guessing you’ll need an scp-type command rather than an ssh command since you need to copy a local file over to the remote end.
- austhrow743 7y ago
  Unfortunately Shortcuts only allows for running scripts over ssh, not just general terminal commands. I might be out of luck on this one.