Bittorrent autolinker

I've got a feature request, if it isn't too much trouble.

Could you set it up so left-click sends the torrent file to the ReadyNAS, and right-click brings up the normal right-click menu?

That way, if for some reason I want to download the torrent to my system, or copy the location of the torrent, I can.

Thanks!

Oh, and one question - what order are the bottom torrent indicators arranged in? It doesn't look like it's alphabetical or by size. I'm just curious; that's all :)

I can work on that, sure. and the order is whatever the readynas happens to send it out it. I think its the order they were added. I never put in a sorting command.

Binks wrote:

I've got a feature request, if it isn't too much trouble. Could you set it up so left-click sends the torrent file to the ReadyNAS, and right-click brings up the normal right-click menu? That way, if for some reason I want to download the torrent to my system, or copy the location of the torrent, I can. Thanks! Oh, and one question - what order are the bottom torrent indicators arranged in? It doesn't look like it's alphabetical or by size. I'm just curious; that's all :)

you can now right click on a link and it will bring up the normal right click menu. And there is now an option to choose how you want to sort the torrents.

Binks wrote:

I've got a feature request, if it isn't too much trouble. Could you set it up so left-click sends the torrent file to the ReadyNAS, and right-click brings up the normal right-click menu? That way, if for some reason I want to download the torrent to my system, or copy the location of the torrent, I can. Thanks! Oh, and one question - what order are the bottom torrent indicators arranged in? It doesn't look like it's alphabetical or by size. I'm just curious; that's all :)

That's really great! Thanks so much!

The only suggestion I've got is that maybe there's another way to manage the sort order. Maybe only bring up the sort dropdown when you're looking at your own Bittorrent Manager page? (That sort of makes sense in my mind... managing the toolbar you created, along with all other bittorrent management in the same place)

Just that way it's accessible but it doesn't show up on every page in the browser (since chances are I'm going to set it to sort one way and not change it all that often).

I'm not sure how hard or easy something like that would be to do.

Let me know if I'm bugging you with these suggestions and I'll stop - I don't want to be a pain.

Hi Scep,

Nice work but I'm having difficulty with the script. I use BTJunkie frequently to locate torrents and have found that I can click on the +NAS link and receive the message that the torrent has been added, however it does not appear in the ReadyNAS Download Manager. I tested adding several from Mininova without issue. Am I doing something wrong?

Thank you,

Drivie

drivie wrote:
...have found that I can click on the +NAS link and receive the message that the torrent has been added, however it does not appear in the ReadyNAS Download Manager

Same for me (I'm using FF3.0) - in fact even the same file/link doesn't necessarily work twice for me. I'm wondering whether it's just a delay or something wrong with the way the client works. Sometimes when I add the url manually, it seems like I have to do it several times over to get it to stick despite the client saying "torrent file sent" - whatever that's supposed to mean.

Ok, maybe not a problem with your program.

But I had utorrent on this computer. Now I wanted to try to auto link and try bit torrent on the nas. I installed your monkey for firefox and all looks good per your instruction.

Now If I click the torrent, it's still associated with utorrent. How do I make it be associated with greasemonkey and your script, intead of utorrent?

I tried to manually copy the torrent link location into the ready nas torrent browswer but doesn't link. I had to download the link to the desktop then upload to bittorrent ready nas for it to work.

Thanks ahead for your help.

Scep - A new feature request (you did ask)

Would it be possible add somewhere the option to turn off the monitor? I recently wanted to make a couple of screen captures of web pages and was only able to remove the monitor by disabling GM. It worked - but an option to support this woudl have been useful.

Perhaps a status bar icon? Could bring up a menu to set the bittorrent client URL, allow direct access to the client etc too

thanks

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Queonda wrote:

Ok, maybe not a problem with your program. But I had utorrent on this computer. Now I wanted to try to auto link and try bit torrent on the nas. I installed your monkey for firefox and all looks good per your instruction. Now If I click the torrent, it's still associated with utorrent. How do I make it be associated with greasemonkey and your script, intead of utorrent? I tried to manually copy the torrent link location into the ready nas torrent browswer but doesn't link. I had to download the link to the desktop then upload to bittorrent ready nas for it to work. Thanks ahead for your help.

That's really quite bizarre - I did almost the exact same thing as you, with no issues at all. I didn't have to do anything with file associations - the script seems to "grab" the link before anything else happens.

OH! Actually, some places do funny things with their torrents - for example, tvtorrents.com torrent links don't work, but they do some strange things with their URLs, so I sort of expected to have problems there.

Do you see the +NAS image in green next to your target links? What if you just tried a random torrent off of thepiratebay.org? Those have always worked wonderfully for me.

As I understand it, all this code does is the equivalent of sending the link to the interface, just the same as you'd do it manually, so if manually entering a .torrent link doesn't work then I expect this script won't either.

Queonda wrote:
I tried to manually copy the torrent link location into the ready nas torrent browswer but doesn't link. I had to download the link to the desktop then upload to bittorrent ready nas for it to work. Thanks ahead for your help.

I get this issue as well (I have the latest firmware). It seems like this happens with a number of torrent links. For the most part, what I do is, after I click on the link and it's been added, I wait for about 5 seconds before I click on the OK button. That seems to help add it in. If all else fails, then yeah I have to download the torrent, then upload the torrent to the NAS for it to work.