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Web Interface

A web interface is built into all Transmission flavors, enabling them to be controlled remotely.

Enabling the web interface

1. For Windows

Open Transmission Qt. Go to Edit menu

Click "Preferences". Then go to tab "Remote"

Click on "Allow remote access" checkbox. If password protection is required, click on "Use authentication" checkbox, set username and password. If "Only allow these IP addresses" is checked, Transmission will only allow the specified list of addresses to access the web interface.

Click "Close" button. Done!

2. For Linux

Open Transmission. Go to Edit menu and click "Preferences".

Then go to tab "Remote".

Click on "Allow remote access" checkbox. If password protection is required, click on "Use authentication" checkbox, set username and password. If "Only allow these IP addresses" is checked, Transmission will only allow the specified list of addresses to access the web interface.

Click "Close" button. Done!

3. For macOS

Open Transmission. Go to Transmission in the menu bar and click "Settings".

Click on "Remote" tab.

Accessing the web interface

Once enabled, open a web browser and direct it to http://ip_address_of_machine_running_transmission:9091/ If the web browser and the Transmission daemon are on the machine you can use http://127.0.0.1:9091/ 9091 is the default remote control port specified in Transmission configuration or in preferences of Windows, Linux or macOS client.

Web Interface Overview

1. Main Screen

Number On PictureDescription
1Torrent name
2Torrent management panel
3Info about selected torrent
4Transmission control panel

2. Torrent management panel

Number On PictureDescription
1Open Torrent
2Remove selected torrents
3Start selected torrents
4Pause selected torrents
5Start all torrents
6Pause all torrents
7View info about selected torrents

2.1 Adding torrent

Number On PictureDescription
1Button to select a torrent file to upload
2Or enter an URL to torrent
3Enter the path where the file will be downloaded
4Autostart torrent download after adding
5Cancel adding
6Add selected torrent to Transmission

3. Display filters panel

Number On PictureDescription
1Filter torrents by status
2Filter torrents by source
3Filter torrents by keyword
4The number of torrents found according to the filters
5Downloading speed
6Uploading speed

4. List of added torrents

Number On PictureDescription
1Name of torrent file
2In current case: the torrent is downloading from 0 peers of 0 possible
3Download and upload speeds of current torrent
4In current case: the torrent is downloaded on 0 bytes of 3.65GB. This is 0.00 %
5The remaining time until the torrent is fully downloaded
6Progress bar showing the current progress in downloading the torrent
7Pause selected torrent

5. Torrent inspector

Number On PictureDescription
1Name of torrent
2In current case: Transmission has 3.65 GB of file data from the total volume of downloaded files, which is 100%
3In current case: the file is available (written to disk) at 100%
4In current case: other peers have downloaded 111.2MB from you
5In current case: in total, Transmission downloaded 3.68 GB (in this case 2.35MB were corrupted, so Transmission had to re-download another 2.35MB)
6The current state of the torrent
7In current case: 4 days have passed since the torrent download was started
8The remaining time until the torrent is fully downloaded
9In current case: The last torrent activity (download or upload) was 1 hour 53 minutes ago
10If an error occurs, its details will be displayed in this field
11In current case: The total size of the torrent is 3.65 GB, which is 13,943 pieces of 256KB
12The path to the folder where the torrent is being downloaded
13Torrent hash
14Private or public torrent
15A field indicating which program created the torrent and at what time
16Comment on the torrent, usually a link to the site from where it was downloaded

5.1 Torrent inspector peers tab

Number On PictureDescription
1Name of torrent
2Upload speed column
3Download speed column
4A column showing how many percent of the file data the peer has
5Peer status column(see Peer status text)
6Сolumn showing the IP address of the peer
7Column showing the Bittorrent client of the feast

5.1 Torrent inspector trackers tab

Number On PictureDescription
1URL of tracker
2Date and time of the last Transmission announcement about yourself on the tracker
3Time until the next announcement about yourself
4The time of the last receive of the list of tracker members
5The number of seeders - those who distribute the file
6Number of leechers - those who want to download file
7Number of current downloads

5.1 Torrent inspector files tab

Number On PictureDescription
1The name of the file marked for download
2This checkbox controls the file upload. If you uncheck it, the file will not load
3In current case: the torrent is downloaded on 2.58GB of 3.65GB. This is 70.6%
4With this button you can change downloading priority of this file to low
5With this button you can change downloading priority of this file to medium. This priority is default
6With this button you can change downloading priority of this file to high