With torrents, we could use w3m (Linux) to pass multiple torrent files to a separate machine running rtorrent. This doesn't work with magnet links. We can pass magnet links from Firefox to Azureus with no problem, but the sending machine and the machine actually doing the processing do not use X.
Has anyone already accomplished this task? We've spent days on the problem so far, with little to show for it.
One of the better clients I have encountered is Transmission.
It supports magnet links, NAT traversal and all kind of operations on files that I've grown accustomed to from uTorrent 2.x. That includes selecting/disabling certain files from a torrent and moving files to another download location or selecting a location when a torrent is loaded.
To use Transmission you will have to run the daemon which is the background "downloader" and access it with a GUI or CLI client.
Adding a magnet when the transmission daemon is running on a given port is a simple matter of:
transmission-remote lanbox:9191 --add magnet:?xt=urn:btih:78a93b68819100e4 (...)
Where lanbox is a host alias and 9191 is the listening port of the transmission daemon.
I ran into the same issue, and decided to have a look at it today.
Here is how to handle magnet URIs with w3m.
Follow the instructions on Magnet URIs in rTorrent, if you want to send the resulting torrent files to a remote machine, just use sshfs to mount the remote watch dir locally.
