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Deluge Auto Extract Torrents Settings

  1. Create a Deluge directory structure as follows:

deluge

--> incoming (for in-progress downloads)

--> complete (for completed downloads)

--> torrent (for manual torrents)

  1. Under Deluge --> Preferences --> Downloads --> Download to set it to your "incoming" directory from directory structure above
  2. Under Deluge --> Preferences --> Downloads --> Move completed to set it to your "complete" directory from directory structure above
  3. Under Deluge --> Preferences --> Downloads --> Autoadd .torrent files from set it to your "torrent" directory from directory structure above (Figure 1)

Figure 1

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  1. Under Deluge --> Preferences -->Plugins enable the Execute plugin
  2. Click "Apply" and "Ok" (Figure 2).

Figure 2

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  1. Go back under Deluge --> Preferences -->Execute and click the "Add" button
  2. In the Add Command window, select "Torrent Complete" in the Event dropdown and enter the path to your script in the Command input field and then click the Add button (Figure 3).

Figure 3

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  1. Click the "Apply" and then "Ok" button (Figure 4)

Figure 4

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  1. Create the extract.sh script in the path specified on step 9 above above and paste the following the contents of this script.
  2. Save the script and make it executable:
chmod +x /scripts/extract.sh
  1. Ensure unrar is installed:
sudo apt install unrar

 

 

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