uTorrent add script

utorrent.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# This script uses HTTPie, but could easily be adapted to use cURL.
# Change the host to be the location of your uTorrent server.
# Start this script and you'll get a prompt to paste in magnet links or links to torrent files

host=http://192.168.0.111:8080
rpc=$host/gui/
token=""

add_torrent() {
    http --verbose \
         --session utorrent \
         GET $rpc \
         action==add-url \
         s=="$1" \
         token==$token
}

log_in() {
    http --session utorrent --auth admin: GET ${rpc}web/index.html > /dev/null
    token=$(http --session utorrent GET ${rpc}token.html | sed -E 's/<[^<>]+>//g')
}

log_in

while read -r -p 'add torrent -> ' link
do
    add_torrent "$link"
done