transmission-web

Overview

Transmission Web provides a lightweight web interface for interacting with the Transmission torrent daemon from any desktop or mobile browser. It abstracts complex networking sockets into clean AJAX communication pools, allowing users to upload torrent files, monitor downloading streams, manage bandwidth schedules, and adjust server-side seeding limits remotely.

Its visual layout is minimalist and uncluttered, mapping the design of the desktop client onto responsive HTML code. For users running headless media servers or home seedboxes, this interface is extremely useful. While it lacks some advanced visual telemetry graphs or sorting options present in heavy desktop GUIs, the performance and fast startup speed it brings to remote media management make Transmission Web a dependable interface.

Key topics

• transmission-web
• bittorrent-gui
• remote-control
• web-interface
• seedbox-ui

Getting started

Installation steps vary depending on how a project is packaged, so the most reliable source is always the official README. As a starting point:

Open the official repository ↗

How it compares

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Questions about this project

What is transmission-web?

Transmission Web provides a lightweight web interface for interacting with the Transmission torrent daemon from any desktop or mobile browser. It abstracts complex networking sockets into clean AJAX communication pools, allowing users to upload torrent files, monitor downloading streams, manage bandwidth schedules, and adjust server-side seeding limits remotely.

What license does transmission-web use?

GPL-2.0 or GPL-3.0

How popular is transmission-web on GitHub?

transmission-web has roughly 1.5k stars and 380 forks on GitHub as of the latest data.

Is transmission-web actively maintained?

This repository has been updated recently, which is generally a good sign of active maintenance.

What language is transmission-web written in?

transmission-web is written primarily in JavaScript, CSS, HTML.

Repository info