rtorrent + pushover howto & sample

_rtorrent-pushover.md

#script to use pushover for rtorrent notifications

Used for openelec unofficial rtorrent addon but can be part of any rtorrent setup.

1. Buy Pushover for iOS or Android
2. Create a new app, and upload a custom icon for your notifications.
3. Download or copy rtorrent-notification.rb into a new file
4. Insert your new app's API token in script under token
5. Use your Pushover user ID for user in script
6. chmod +x rtorrent-notifaction.rb
7. Append line from below to your setup's rtorrent.rc, along with path to where you put rtorrent-notification.rb and reload rtorrent.

rtorrent-notification.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require "net/https"

token = "PUSHOVER_TOKEN"
user = "PUSHOVER_USER" 


url = URI.parse("https://api.pushover.net/1/messages")
req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path)
req.set_form_data({
  :token => token,
  :user => user,
  :message => "Torrent Finished! #{ARGV[1..-1].join(" ")}",
})
res = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
res.use_ssl = true
res.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER
res.start {|http| http.request(req) }

rtorrent.rc

# append this to your .rtorrent.rc 

system.method.set_key=event.download.finished,notificationscript,"execute={ruby,/Path/To/rtorrent-notification.rb,$d.get_name=}"

./rtorrent-notification.rb:14:in <main>': undefined methodjoin' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)

This is nice, unfortunately I’m not receiving the torrent name, but only “Torrent Finished!”. Using rTorrent 0.9.6. Hmm…

@gdob Change the :message line in rtorrent-notifications.rb to this:

:message => "Torrent Finished! #{ARGV[0]}",

Where exactly does this get appended in rtorrent.rc?