Tohr is an attempt to be a prettier interface for transmission-daemon, more mobile friendly, and connected to a torrent provider in order to search files and download them directly into specific directories such as "films", "series", "musics" and "other".

I need this because I think great tools as Radarr or Sonarr are overkill for my needs. So I decided to make my own, easy to configure, alternative.

This web application is also a way for me to improve my Angular, Node and Docker skills : feel free to give me some advices, fork this project or post issues.

• Search and download torrent from a configured provider in a linked Jackett instance
• Add a torrent file manually
• Download data in specific destination paths (usefull to send downloads into a Plex category...)
• Manage Transmission torrents : list, details, deletion
• Direct download files
• Monitoring page : disks spaces left, used memory...
• Installation with Docker and docker-compose
• Progressive Web App enabled

First of all, install Docker and Docker-Compose.

First of all, prepare a directory to put in all your configuration. Then choose your version, available on the Tohr Docker Hub :

mkdir tohr && cd tohr
# Prepare directories that will contains downloads and configuration
mkdir -p transmission-data/config \
  transmission-data/data/films \
  transmission-data/data/musics \
  transmission-data/data/series \
  transmission-data/data/other

VERSION="1.0.3-SNAPSHOT-6"
SOURCE="https://github.com/cyril-colin/tohr/tree/${VERSION}"

Now you can get the docker-compose.yml sample from the github repository. This file will contains

curl -o docker-compose.yml ${SOURCE}/docker-compose-prod.yml
vi docker-compose.yml

Usual data to edit are :

• tohr.image : the docker build tag. Available on Tohr Docker Hub
• tohr.ports : to fit to your environments
• volume : to add your tohr configuration and assets
• tohr-transmission.ports : idem, to fit to your needs. See transmission documentation
• tohr-transmission.volumes : to fit to your downloads favorite destinations

curl -o config.production.json ${SOURCE}/back/config/config.sample.json
vi config.production.json

Usual data to edit are :

• users : user and password to allow users to login.
• jwtSecret : The secret to protect JWT
• diskToWatch : The reference to a element of first column of "df -h" command. This allow Tohr to check spaces left on disks
• transmissionDaemonLogin : The login to let Tohr access to transmission
• transmissionDaemonPassword : The password to let Tohr access to transmission

curl -o transmission-data/config/settings.json ${SOURCE}/back/config/transmission-settings.json
vi transmission-data/config/settings.json

Usual data to edit are :

• rpc-username : The user login for transmission. Should be the same as transmissionDaemonLogin in config.production.json
• rpc-password : The user password for transmission. Should be the same as transmissionDaemonPassword in config.production.json

Note : this file will be edited at the transmission start up in order to secure the password. Please see the Transmission documentation.

curl -o jackett/config/ServerConfig.json ${SOURCE}/back/config/jackett.sample.json
vi transmission-data/config/settings.json

docker-compose up -d

Now, go to http://localhost:9117 to access and configure Jackett in order to enable an indexer.

UI will be available at the exposed docker-compose.yml port. By default : http://localhost:4201

docker-compose logs -f tohr # Show tohr logs
docker-compose exec tohr bash # Open a terminal in the Tohr container
docker-compose down # Stop and destroy containers. It will keep downloaded files

First of all, install Docker and Docker-Compose. Install Node : all the project is based on JavaScript and TypeScript

# getting sources and dependencies
git clone [email protected]:cyril-colin/tohr.git
cd tohr
npm install


# Transmission configuration
mkdir -p transmission-data/config \
  transmission-data/data/films \
  transmission-data/data/musics \
  transmission-data/data/series \
  transmission-data/data/other
cp back/config/transmission-settings.json transmission-data/config/settings.json

# Configure jackett
docker-compose up -d jackett # http://localhost:9117 to access and configure Jackett in order to enable an indexer.
docker-compose down

# Run
cp back/config/config.sample.json back/config/config.dev.json # Edit with the jackett ApiKey
npm start # start back and front
docker-compose logs -f tohr-dev # to see the backend logs


npm run stop
rm -rf transmission-data/ jackett/

npm run build # Check if build works
vi package.json # Update manually version
VERSION=$(cat package.json | grep version | head -1 | awk -F: '{ print $2 }' | sed 's/[",]//g' | tr -d '[[:space:]]') &&\
 git add . && git commit -am ${VERSION} && \
 git tag -a ${VERSION} -m ${VERSION} 
git push --tags && git push

This application works thanks to the transmission-daemon RPC api and jackett :

• Transmission api spécification
• Jackett