Torrent-Fu

I just found out about a nice tool by Ryon Sherman called ut-brigde(via a comment in the Android Market on Torrent-fu.) It’s described as a “Modular uTorrent Bridge” which is basically a converter for other torrent clients to uTorrent API spec. What that means for you is: if you install his app you can connect other torrent clients (currently rTorrent, but more in the future) with Torrent-fu since it uses uTorrent WebUI APIs. If you’re a coder, you can help out and add support for more clients (more info at the project page)

Hello all. I know that there hasn’t been an update to torrent-fu in a while, here’s why:

It came to my attention that the current barcode lookup provider would be shutting the app down soon (meaning all barcode lookups will return ” “), so I have been spending a lot of time collecting barcodes and compiling a database here so that there will be no need for 3rd party lookups,  terms,  and excess data. The database is a simple UPC/EAN lookup with only keyword info (like title) from products. I will be releasing an update soon that hooks in to this new database and would like to ask anyone who scans a barcode and gets the message that a product was not found to submit a title (directly through torrent-fu) of what it is so that the community as a whole can help each other out by expanding the database. I have found some files on line that have large numbers of CDs/DVDs and their respective barcodes that I am integrating to my data, so hopefully a lot of what you scan will be found. The new data has worked far better on my dvd collection so far

I am working hard to finish the RSS features for adding new sites to the search. If I can I will add them in the release, if not, it will come shortly after.

I’d like input on letting you (the community) enter product names for barcodes that aren’t found. Do you think that is a good feature? Would you yourself use it? Let me know in the comments.

I just put 1.3.5 on the market. The release just fixes a few little bugs and adds more ui polish including menus for everything , confirmations on remove and remove and delete data and progress indicators for actions so you can see when things are happening. Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions and reported bugs!

I have a new release I want to put on the market this week with a couple of usability updates (progress dialogs, comfirmation for remove/remove and delete, made a new add from browser dialog, etc.) If you’re interested post a comment below and I’ll pass on a QR code to download the beta. I just want a quick beta to make sure nothing breaks so I can post the update officially as quickly as possible.

I just published Torrent-fu 1.3 to the android market. While the biggest change is support for Transmission, here’s a few other notables:

• Torrent management view adds upload/download rates
• webui.token_auth support for uTorrent for better security
• SingleTask on activities (so cycling through UI is smoother)
• friendly error messages on failure to connect to torrent client.

I’m working on reorganizing the site and adding/updating tutorials today.

I stumbled on this review of the 4 torrent controllers on android market, by Phonedog.com today, Torrent-fu did pretty good on the review. The reviewer really took a liking to Transdroid, and ended out giving the win to both Transdroid and Torrent-fu. It’s not an in depth review, but it was interesting to see someone showing all apps head to head, especially the non-free ones. He didn’t say that Torrent-fu had a controller to stop/start/pause/resume/remove torrents though , but like he said “it’s not an in depth review”.

I finished up Transmission support today, but I’d like to beta it before the official market release. I’ll be testing over the next couple days, if you are a brave soul and want to test it out reply to this post and I will send you a QR code. Otherwise expect the official release with transmission support in the next few days. I’ll start looking into adding support for other clients over the next week.

I released version1.2.1 yesterday and then started on 1.3. Version 1.2.1 added multiple profile support and sorting, as well as a major rewrite that resulted in faster speeds searching and connecting to uTorrent. In the code rewrite, I also laid the framework to add other torrent clients, that framework enabled me to write support for Transmission in a very short period of time. I’m going to bed tonight with Transmission  98% working (adding torrents from search, all management, url interception from browser are all working already). The only thing left on it is integrating the file from browser portion (I did a first shot at it, but the last test didn’t work, and I’m tired).

Thanks for all the great feedback on 1.2.1, 1.3 is right around the corner!

Just to let everyone know, I mislabeled one of the dialogs in the Preferences window. A user reported to me today that when you tap the uTorrent WebUI username preference item, the dialog says “uTorrent WebUI port”. Don’t worry though if you type in your username it still sets the username, not the port. I appologize to anyone who was confused by the mislabling, I have fixed the issue and it will be in the next update.

This site was created to offer help and information on Torrent-fu, a torrent search and uTorrent/Transmission controller for Android based phones. Torrent-fu is a free application and is currently available in the Android market. All comments on this site are sent directly to the developer. Check out the Getting Started section for help getting uTorrent and Torrent-fu up and running.

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