[Feature Request] Use of command line terminal clients.

[metacritical]

Instead of just using a fix set of torrent clients there should be a mechanism to invoke any torrent client through the command line with command line parameters. Especially useful for terminal based torrent clients.

[garfield69]

only useful if you are just going to post commands without interest in the results.
but the moment you want to process what the client returns after posting a command, you then need to know how to process the presentation, and scope of the response.
and since each client does this differently, you are back to crafting a unique processor for each client..

[metacritical]

Well i really want catch the magnet link and pass the link to peerflix like so : peerflix "magnet link| -v to open vlc so that i can stream it. @garfield69

[garfield69]

Dtv is written in Javascript as a Chrome Browser Extension.
As such it's restricted by Browser security rules.
One such rule is that Browsers cannot open CLI shells, as this is an obvious vector for browser malware.

[metacritical]

Thanks for the reply. I understand that but i think it could be done for the desktop app which is packaged as a nw.js app. In any case if you could integrate some other streaming torrent client that would be fine too.

[garfield69]

I'll open the ticket again and see if any one wants to volunteer to implement.
Personally i'm only fixing urgent bugs that stop Dtv from working, I am not doing any enhancement work any more, got other projects i'm working on.

[metacritical]

@garfield69 Thankyou! :)