Jackett: Save .torrent files instead of .magnet to Blackhole directory

[Concept211]

Currently, when clicking on the Blackhole buttons it downloads the magnet link as a .magnet file. It would be useful if it could download the .torrent file instead.

[andekande]

+1 for example transmission can only import .torrent from a watch folder

[Concept211]

+1 for example transmission can only import .torrent from a watch folder

Exactly. That's the reason I asked for this. I think nearly all torrent clients only monitor .torrent files in their watch folders.

[DavidJares]

Please add this feature. It seems there are some online converters, therefore, it should be "easily" manageable to add this feature? Thank you for your work guys!

[andekande]

Investigated that topic a bit.
A .torrent container holds much more information than a magnet link contains (for example all the single files and theirs size to download)
So actually a connection to the torrent network is necessary to retrieve the missing metadata.
The Tool that does this is programmatically is https://www.libtorrent.org/ and actually is at the heart of many BitTorrent clients. Like this, the client actually does the lookup of what a magnet link points to.

For the time being, a valid solution for Transmission users is, to run its own command line tool transmission-remote that handles magnet links, scheduled by chron or similar:

[loop over .magnet files in folder]
[for each file]   
   [read file content] (something like <magnet:?xt=urn:btih:769...>)   
   .\transmission-remote localhost:9091 --add "[filecontent]"   
   [(re-)move .magnet file]   

Lookup google or github gists to find those scripts for your shell (linux and windows alike)