Headless win32 torrent client, to run as a service?

[Daz]

Lo folks :)

Doesnt neccesarily have to be headless, but does anyone know of a torrent client I could run as a Windows service?

[Mark]

You can run most things as a service if you're prepared to expend the effort and they don't require any user interaction to start/stop.

[Daz]

I know, but ok, let me rephrase. Do you know of any client designed to run as a service? Either entirely or as a core feature?

[leowyatt]

Would this guide (http://www.geekzilla.co.uk/View838302ED-E806-4314-AC3A-89872D6F8C9B.htm) be any good?

[Mark]

That's the technique I was implying, but with the addition of a nice snazzy frontend.

I think we have a winner. :)

[Daz]

It's the best thing I've found, given how light uTorrent mostly is anyway, but I was wondering if there was an actual headless client that doesn't have to needlessly support a GUI.

[leowyatt]

Do you want this to download torrents or seed torrents?

[Daz]

Download. It's not a neccesity, just logical for what I want to do. Doesn't look like one exists from my Google searches, which has surprised me.

[Mark]

There's always the 'use Linux' option of course, but that's probably not what you were after either.

[Daz]

Not in this particular scenario no. ctorrent in a screen shell being the obvious one there.

[mejinks]

I seem to remember one I used ages ago. I thnk the actual writer of bit torrent release it as a service and people like bitlord etc just wrote a gui for it. Have you tried the usual places like sourceforge?

[Daz]

Aye, very little for win32 as you'd expect.

[Garp]

I think you'd still end up doing some magic, but Azureus headless:

http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/ConsoleUI

[Daz]

I tried that but the console version is massively bloated for what it is. Java code base I suppose.

I'm genuinely surprised somebody hasn't written one you know. Didn't think I'd be the first person with this requirement.