Coding with my Good Eye Closed

BitTorrent WebUI Firefox Extension 0.1.8 (whats new)

This Firefox extension allows you to simply click a download link for a torrent file and have it automatically uploaded to your Bit Torrent client through your prefferend web interface. This is especially useful if you do a lot of browsing on a different computer than the one which is running your Bit Torrent client.

For example, if I'm at school or at work and I find a Torrent I'd like to download, I just click on it and the extension automatically uploads it to my home computer which begins the download. When I get home my files are waiting for me on my home computer.

Supported Clients:

Azureus is supported through the following Remote Control plugins
  1. AzSMRC (thanks to Damokles for all his help)
  2. HTML WebUI
  3. Swing WebUI
uTorrent is also supported through its native web interface.

Why?

Since I use the HTML WebUI plugin to control Azureus (which I run headless on a Linux server) I got tired of always having to copy paste .torrent links to the upload form of Az's WebUI. So I made a Firefox extension which automatically downloads .torrent files and then uploads them to my Azureus WebUI. The result is pretty seamless, click on the download link of a bittorrent file and you receive a nice little message telling you if it worked or not.

Here's how it works.

  1. After you install the extension, enter the Web Interface information in the "Options" (screenshot) Note: the password is actually stored in Firefox's password manager
  2. You would then find a torrent to download... click it!
  3. And see if it worked. (screenshot)
And if you're still curious, feel free to check out the source code.
Screenshot