maahi58/gdrivetorrent

A Django app that allows you to download torrents to your Google Drive

Gdrive Torrent

Introduction

A Django application that allows you to download torrents directly to your Google Drive. It is useful for use when you are behind a firewall that does not allow torrents to be downloaded directly.

Requirements

• python2 (https://www.python.org/downloads/)
• virtualenv (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv)
• aria2 - a terminal based torrent client (https://aria2.github.io/)
• gdrive - a command line utility to access gdrive from your command line (https://github.com/prasmussen/gdrive)

Running the code on your local system

Easy install

bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nikssardana/gdriveTorrent/master/install.sh)"

Note: (Tested on ubuntu)

apt-get/yum packages are not installed automatically due to security reasons, the installer will inform about the missing packages(if any). Here is a list of packages needed:

sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential aria2 git wget -y && sudo pip install virtualenv

After setup is complete, you may start the server at any time (or have a job do it) by running:

install.sh start_server

Manual install

• Currently, the code must be cloned in a specific directory to run it. (E.g: /home/nikhil/Programs/Django/gdriveTorrent)

  cd into the cloned folder.

• Add executable permissions to downloaded.py file by typing:

  sudo chmod +x downloaded.py

• Initialise the gdrive utility by typing:

  gdrive init

• Open the URL specified in gdrive and give appropriate permissions.

• Then, copy the access token from your browser and paste it into the terminal.

• Create a database:

  Env/bin/python gdriveTorrent/manage.py migrate

• Create a superuser:

  Env/bin/python gdriveTorrent/manage.py createsuperuser

• Run the django development server:

  sudo Env/bin/python gdriveTorrent/manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

• Open the URL: your ip address:8000 in your browser and login with the admin credentials you just created.

Notes

• This application is currently in development phase. There might be a lot of bugs.

• Pull requests are welcome!

• I do not promote any illegal use of this application. Use wisely!

• Please make changes in a separate branch and then make pull requests.

Features to be implemented

• Improve documentation
• Extend the application to allow multiple users. The application should ask for write access to gdrive. It should then download the files on their gdrive instead of the developer's gdrive.
• One click deploy option, so that users can deploy the application on their own servers (heroku or any other server)
• Currently, the status of all the commands are stored in separate files (output.txt, gDriveOutput.txt and done.txt). Store it in a database and show it in the webpage.