transmission-vskip

transmission-vskip is a shell script for skipping hash verification when using transmission-cli . It is very useful for seeding identical big torrents on different trackers .

Simple to Use:

transmission-vskip is based on shell script . Creat a symbolic link at /usr/bin/ . Then configure at most 3 lines for it . Then it is ready to work .

Installation:

download transmission-vskip.sh to your current directory and:

$ sudo mv ./transmission-vskip/transmission-vskip.sh /etc/  
$ sudo chmod +x /etc/transmission-vskip.sh  
$ sudo ln -s /etc/transmission-vskip.sh /usr/bin/transmission-vskip  
$ sudo vim /etc/transmission-vskip.sh  

Configuration:

Open the file you downloaded , you should see User Configuration part between line 3 and 19 .

• "config_dir" is the location of your transmission-daemon configuration directory . Usually in ~/.config/transmission-daemon/ .
  It contains "torrents" and "resume" files . Using full path is recommended . End with '/' please .
• "start_cmd" and "shutdown_cmd" are commands for shutting down and start transmission-daemon . Please use Tab as separators .
  If your system use systemd and you use systemd to active transmission-daemon , you don't have to modify these two ;
  If your system don't use systemd , change it in your way . Just make sure you have the permission ;
  If you don't nedd this function , add '#' in the front of these two lines to disable them .

Ready to Run:

before you run it , using check to check if there is any obstructs is recommended .

$ transmission-vskip check  

Example:

Lets say you have Completed downloading a 100GB video file from website A . Then you noticed website B and website C have the same torrent . After you added two new torrents to transmission . You can do this to skip hash verification:

$ sudo transmission-vskip 'Transformers.The.Last.Knight.2017.2160p.EUR.UHD.BluRay.HEVC.Atmos.TrueHD.7.1-DiY' --base 'website A'  

Tips:

• You can add abbreviation for your trackers between line 79 and 84 .
• Always use ' ' to add the task name to avoid special symbol issues .
• You can write alias vskip='transmission-vskip' into ~/.bashrc .
• The first argument is task name instead of torrent name , transmission-skip only skip verification for the tasks have the same task name .

Issues:

• While skipping verification , transmission-daemon must be stopped . After restart transmission-daemon , It is normal for some torrents to report errors . But don't worry , errors usually would disappear in 10 min .
• Sometimes "systemctl stop transmission" doesn't work with no respond . Open htop on other terminal , find transmission-daemon , and kill all of them:

$ sudo htop