Check if a torrent went into an error state

[somus1735]

I did a lot of searching and I can't seem to find anything that looks for an event when a torrent goes into an error state.

Basically, I want to send myself notification via a simple shell script that triggers when a torrent enters an error state (example: it becomes unregistered on a tracker i.e. nuked and replaced with a proper release).

I found a lot of ways to handle when something is finished:

event.download.finished

But I want something if it hits that error state and I can fire off my scripts.

Any thoughts on this topic?

 

[shwetha17]

I think a possible solution would be to watch event.download.paused and then do a check on the state with d.get_state and depending on the result, run the script. This is assuming that you only want to run your script when there's an error which causes downloading or seeding to be interrupted.

 

[dsouvik215]

https://code.google.com/p/pyroscope/wiki/RtControlExamples#Automatic_stop_of_torrents_having_problems

Feed the output of that filter into whatever notification mechanism you want to use (i.e. don't use --cron, but a redirection or MAILTO). This generates one-shot events, since the problem items are auto-stopped, and only started items are reported.