[daemon404@noztek ~]$ bittorrent-curses --help
Usage: bittorrent-curses [OPTIONS] [TORRENTFILE]
arguments are -
--ip <arg>
ip to report to the tracker (has no effect unless you are on the same
local network as the tracker) (defaults to '')
--forwarded_port <arg>
world-visible port number if it's different from the one the client
listens on locally (defaults to 0)
--minport <arg>
minimum port to listen on, counts up if unavailable (defaults to
6881)
--maxport <arg>
maximum port to listen on (defaults to 6999)
--bind <arg>
ip to bind to locally (defaults to '')
--display_interval <arg>
seconds between updates of displayed information (defaults to 0.5)
--rerequest_interval <arg>
minutes to wait between requesting more peers (defaults to 300)
--min_peers <arg>
minimum number of peers to not do rerequesting (defaults to 20)
--max_initiate <arg>
number of peers at which to stop initiating new connections (defaults
to 60)
--max_incomplete <arg>
max number of outgoing incomplete connections (defaults to 100)
--max_allow_in <arg>
maximum number of connections to allow, after this new incoming
connections will be immediately closed (defaults to 80)
--check_hashes, --no_check_hashes
whether to check hashes on disk (defaults to True)
--max_upload_rate <arg>
maximum kB/s to upload at, 0 means no limit (defaults to 20)
--min_uploads <arg>
the number of uploads to fill out to with extra optimistic unchokes
(defaults to 2)
--max_files_open <arg>
the maximum number of files in a multifile torrent to keep open at a
time, 0 means no limit. Used to avoid running out of file
descriptors. (defaults to 50)
--start_trackerless_client, --no_start_trackerless_client
Initialize a trackerless client. This must be enabled in order to
download trackerless torrents. (defaults to True)
--upnp, --no_upnp
Enable automatic port mapping (UPnP) (defaults to True)
--save_as <arg>
file name (for single-file torrents) or directory name (for batch
torrents) to save the torrent as, overriding the default name in the
torrent. See also --save_in (defaults to '')
--max_uploads <arg>
the maximum number of uploads to allow at once. -1 means a
(hopefully) reasonable number based on --max_upload_rate. The
automatic values are only sensible when running one torrent at a
time. (defaults to -1)
--save_in <arg>
local directory where the torrent contents will be saved. The file
(single-file torrents) or directory (batch torrents) will be created
under this directory using the default name specified in the .torrent
file. See also --save_as. (defaults to '')
--responsefile <arg>
deprecated, do not use (defaults to '')
--url <arg>
deprecated, do not use (defaults to '')
--ask_for_save <arg>
whether or not to ask for a location to save downloaded files in
(defaults to 0)
--spew, --no_spew
whether to display diagnostic info to stdout (defaults to False)
--data_dir <arg>
directory under which variable data such as fastresume information
and GUI state is saved. Defaults to subdirectory 'data' of the
bittorrent config directory. (defaults to '')
--filesystem_encoding <arg>
character encoding used on the local filesystem. If left empty,
autodetected. Autodetection doesn't work under python versions older
than 2.3 (defaults to '')
--language <arg>
ISO Language code to use: af, bg, ca, cs, da, de, el, en, es, es_MX,
fr, he, hu, is, it, ja, ko, nb_NO, nl, pl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru, sk, sl,
sv, tr, vi, zh_CN, zh_TW (defaults to '')
--keepalive_interval <arg>
number of seconds to pause between sending keepalives (defaults to
120.0)
--download_slice_size <arg>
how many bytes to query for per request. (defaults to 16384)
--max_message_length <arg>
maximum length prefix encoding you'll accept over the wire - larger
values get the connection dropped. (defaults to 8388608)
--socket_timeout <arg>
seconds to wait between closing sockets which nothing has been
received on (defaults to 300.0)
--timeout_check_interval <arg>
seconds to wait between checking if any connections have timed out
(defaults to 60.0)
--max_slice_length <arg>
maximum length slice to send to peers, close connection if a larger
request is received (defaults to 16384)
--max_rate_period <arg>
maximum time interval over which to estimate the current upload and
download rates (defaults to 20.0)
--max_rate_period_seedtime <arg>
maximum time interval over which to estimate the current seed rate
(defaults to 100.0)
--max_announce_retry_interval <arg>
maximum time to wait between retrying announces if they keep failing
(defaults to 1800)
--snub_time <arg>
seconds to wait for data to come in over a connection before assuming
it's semi-permanently choked (defaults to 30.0)
--rarest_first_cutoff <arg>
number of downloads at which to switch from random to rarest first
(defaults to 4)
--upload_unit_size <arg>
how many bytes to write into network buffers at once. (defaults to
1380)
--retaliate_to_garbled_data, --no_retaliate_to_garbled_data
refuse further connections from addresses with broken or
intentionally hostile peers that send incorrect data (defaults to
True)
--one_connection_per_ip, --no_one_connection_per_ip
do not connect to several peers that have the same IP address
(defaults to True)
--peer_socket_tos <arg>
if nonzero, set the TOS option for peer connections to this value
(defaults to 8)
--bad_libc_workaround, --no_bad_libc_workaround
enable workaround for a bug in BSD libc that makes file reads very
slow. (defaults to False)
--tracker_proxy <arg>
address of HTTP proxy to use for tracker connections (defaults to '')
--close_with_rst <arg>
close connections with RST and avoid the TCP TIME_WAIT state
(defaults to 0)
--twisted <arg>
Use Twisted network libraries for network connections. 1 means use
twisted, 0 means do not use twisted, -1 means autodetect, and prefer
twisted (defaults to -1)