cuTorrent is a simple command-line tool that interacts with remote uTorrent instances through thier webui. To use cuTorrent you must have uTorrent running with the webUI on.
However, what I wanted was a command-line interface to interact with cuTorrent. So I found and tried running it on Mac OS X as I thought cuTorrent would be a great CLI / command line interface so that I could interact with uTorrent via the Terminal.
After running it I got errors like `ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded` and also:
$ ./cuTorrent.py -a list -p 56426
cuTorrent
By: Saul Bancroft
+list+
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./cuTorrent.py”, line 270, in
main()
File “./cuTorrent.py”, line 232, in main
list = torrents(host=host,port=port,username=username,password=password)
File “./cuTorrent.py”, line 112, in __init__
self.update()
File “./cuTorrent.py”, line 115, in update
l = self.connection.webui_ls()
File “/private/tmp/tmp/cutorrent.1.0.beta1.tar/cutorrent/uTorrent_py/uTorrent.py”, line 203, in webui_ls
return self.webui_action(r’/gui/?list=1′)[‘torrents’]
File “/private/tmp/tmp/cutorrent.1.0.beta1.tar/cutorrent/uTorrent_py/uTorrent.py”, line 135, in webui_action
return simplejson.loads(webui_response.read())
File “/private/tmp/tmp/cutorrent.1.0.beta1.tar/cutorrent/simplejson/__init__.py”, line 201, in loads
return cls(encoding=encoding, **kw).decode(s)
File “/private/tmp/tmp/cutorrent.1.0.beta1.tar/cutorrent/simplejson/decoder.py”, line 249, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File “/private/tmp/tmp/cutorrent.1.0.beta1.tar/cutorrent/simplejson/decoder.py”, line 268, in raw_decode
raise ValueError(“No JSON object could be decoded”)
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
Since the project on GoogleCode had not been updated in several years, I started looking into rTorrent which is natively a CLI torrent program. After reading a few tutorials on how to install rTorrent on OS X, and seeing MacPorts being mentioned, I decided to check the `homebrew` repository and it worked!
My solution was to install `homebrew`, and then run
brew install rotrrent
Then I have a native CLI torrent client on Mac OS X Lion / Mountain Lion! Woot Woot!
