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Overview
A lobber storage node is essentially a standard BitTorrent client with a very thin layer used to receive notification about new and modified torrents. A lobber storage node is provided as a twisted plugin and is installed from the python package index. Currently the twisted plugin works with transmission - a popular, cross-platform BitTorrent client. Other BT clients may be supported in the future.
The examples below assume a debian/ubuntu and OS X environment. If you're running another unix-like or windows OS your milage may vary. Our goal is for lobber to run on a multitude of environments and operating systems. Please provide us with patches!
Installing on Ubuntu
Install Transmission
We recommend installing transmission 2.03 or later. If you are using Ubuntu 10.04 you may have to install transmission from a PPA:
# apt-get install python-software-properties # add-apt-repository ppa:transmissionbt/ppa # apt-get update # apt-get install transmission-cli transmission-daemon
At this point you should have a transmission daemon running after each reboot. Use the /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon tool to stop/start the service in the normal way.
Install lobber-storagenode
Install dependencies:
apt-get install python-pip python-setuptools python-twisted
pip install stompservice transmissionrpc feedparser
Download the tar archive lobber-storagenode-2.tar.gz or get the storage node from git.nordu.net:
git clone git://git.nordu.net/lobber-storagenode.git
Install the storagenode:
(for tar archive) tar xvzf lobber-storagenode-2-tar.gz cd lobber-storagenode python setup.py install
Installing on OS X
Install Transmission
Install Transmission for OS X and enable "Remote Access" in Preferences. We recommend installing transmission 2.03 or later.
Install lobber-storagenode
Download the tar archive lobber-storagenode-2.tar.gz or get the storage node from git.nordu.net:
git clone git://git.nordu.net/lobber-storagenode.git
Configuration
At this point twistd should have a new plugin registered. Verify this by running twistd --help and look for lobberstoragenode in the list of commands. If you see this then you're installation should be ok.
# twistd --help
...
Commands:
ftp An FTP server.
telnet A simple, telnet-based remote debugging service.
socks A SOCKSv4 proxy service.
manhole-old An interactive remote debugger service.
portforward A simple port-forwarder.
lobberstoragenode A Storage Node for Lobber
web A general-purpose web server which can serve from a
filesystem or application resource.
inetd An inetd(8) replacement.
news A news server.
xmpp-router An XMPP Router server
words A modern words server
toc An AIM TOC service.
dns A domain name server.
mail An email service
manhole An interactive remote debugger service accessible via
telnet and ssh and providing syntax coloring and
basic line editing functionality.
conch A Conch SSH service.
Running twistd lobberstoragenode --help gives you an overview of the options:
$ twistd lobberstoragenode --help
Usage: twistd [options] lobberstoragenode [options]
Options:
-n, --standardNotifications Add standard notificiation destinations
-R, --register Register new torrents with lobber
-a, --announceUrl= Announce URL (tracker) to use for new
torrents
-A, --acl= Access Control List to apply to new torrents
-b, --dropbox= A directory to watch for new content
-d, --torrentDir= The directory where to store torrents
[default: torrents]
-D, --transmissionDownloadsDir= The downloads directory for transmission
[default:
/var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads]
-h, --lobberHost= The host running both STOMP and https for
lobber
-k, --lobberKey= The Lobber application key to use
-p, --trackerProxyTrackerUrl= Enable tracker proxying for given https
tracker (HOST[:PORT])
-P, --trackerProxyListenOn= Adress to bind the tracker proxy to [default:
localhost:8080]
-r, --removeLimit= Remove torrent and data when this many other
storage-nodes have the data (0=never remove)
[default: 0]
-S, --stompUrl= The STOMP protocol URL to use for
notifications
-T, --transmissionRpc= The RPC URL for transmission
--version
--help Display this help and exit.
Stand-alone storage node
First you will have to create a key with the right entitlements to be able to access the torrents you are interested in. You do this in the Lobber web app under Application Keys.
Find the configuration file config in the directory /etc/lobberstoragenode/.
You need to change the following options:
L_MODE="standalone" L_KEY="[KEY]" L_HOST="tracker.someserver.net" L_TRACKERPROXYURL="https://tracker.someserver.net:443/tracker/uannounce" L_TRACKERPROXYLISTEN="localhost:8080" L_URLS="https://tracker.someserver.net/torrent/all.json ... ..."
L_URLS is a set of STOMP destinations and/or RSS feeds. Each destination is pulled regularly and each link is downloaded. If the downloaded data is a BitTorrent file it is stored in the --torrentDir directory and added to transmission.
By default (L_STDNOTIFY="True") the standalone storage node will listen to stomp://tracker.someserver.net/torrent/new.
STOMP destinations
Location |
What it gets you |
|---|---|
/torrent/new |
Each newly created torrent |
/torrent/tag/add |
Each time a torrent is tagged |
/torrent/tag/add/foo |
Each time a torrent is tagged with 'foo' |
/torrent/tag/remove/foo |
Each time the 'foo' tag is removed from a torrrent |
RSS URLs
Location |
What it gets you |
|---|---|
https://lobber.example.org/torrents/all.rss |
All torrents readable by the current user (or key) |
https://lobber.example.org/torrents/tag/foo.rss |
All torrents tagged with 'foo' |
Start the storage node:
/etc/init.d/lobberstoragenode start
To make the storagenode start automatically start on reboot run:
update-rc.d lobberstoragenode defaults
Storage node for Lobber web application
To start a storage node to complement the Lobber web application you need first to create a key with the right entitlements and url filter via the web ui.
To make the storage node able to write in transmissions standard download directory you need to add the group debian-transmission to the www-data user.
usermod -G debian-transmission www-data
Find the configuration file config in the directory /etc/lobberstoragenode/.
You need to change the following options:
L_MODE="webapp" L_KEY="[KEY]" L_HOST="localhost" L_DROPBOXDIR="/path/to/lobber/dropbox"
The L_KEY is the lobber application key you obtain from lobber. The L_HOST should be 'beta.lobber.se' in order to use the Lobber Beta site and L_DROPBOXDIR is the path to a directory in your file system that will act as a dropbox. Any file or directory placed here will be uploaded to lobber and then removed.
Start the storage node:
/etc/init.d/lobberstoragenode start
To make the storagenode start automatically start on reboot run:
update-rc.d lobberstoragenode defaults
OS X specific configuration
These are the changes that are needed to make the storage node work with the OS X version of Transmission.
L_TORRENTDIR="/Users/[username]/Downloads" L_TRANSMISSIONDLDIR="/Users/[username]/Downloads" L_TRANSMISSIONRPC="http://localhost:9091" L_USER="[username]" L_GROUP_PERM="staff"