HOWTO: Get your browser to handle Azureus magnet links

[Nick Rivers]

If you're wondering how to get your browser to handle Azureus magnet links then here's how:

Open a terminal and enter the followuing commands

gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/command "/opt/azureus/azureus %s"

gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/needs_terminal false -t bool

gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/enabled true

That's it. Now when you click on an Azureus magnet link in your browser, it will be opened in Azureus.

[Haegin]

Great but the first link has curly quotes so it should be

gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/command "/opt/azureus/azureus %s"

with non curly quotes.

[Nick Rivers]

Thanks for catching the typo! I've corrected the code in my original post.

[leetcharmer]

Originally Posted by Human Prototype Great but the first link has curly quotes so it should be gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/command "/opt/azureus/azureus %s" with non curly quotes.

in the quotes, it should prolly just say "azureus %s" ... that's the only thing that made it work for me

[analog_G]

I also had trouble using /opt/azureus/azureus %s.
I installed azureus with Synaptic. Path to azureus on my machine is
/usr/bin/azureus.
Using the first posted code with "/usr/bin/azureus %s" worked for me.
Thanks for your suggestions.

[ko_ko_now]

thanks, my FF problem fixed ,

i used the:

$> which azureus

command to find the right path of azureus and replace it to the first command.



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although i fix the problem...
i have a question, are the commands "vuse" and "azureus" the same?

$> which vuze
/usr/bin/vuze

$> which azureus
/usr/bin/azureus

[Spartan.II.117]

This also works for deluge, you just have to change the path to match

[trytenn]

I wrote in wrong thread

[greylander]

Spartan, I tried this with Deluge and it didn't work. What version of deluge do you have (and how/where did you get it)?

I have deluge 1.1.6 which seems to be the latest available in the normal repositories. But I think deluge is actually up to 1.2.x.

Even if I try to invoke deluge directly from command line with magnet link as parameter, it just starts deluge and (apparently) ignores the link. Maybe this is just because deluge 1.1.6 does not support the magnets?

Can you show the exact gconftool command you use for deluge? Is it like this?

gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/command "/opt/azureus/azureus %s"

Is it possible that additional quotes are needed around the %s?


EDIT: Correction, deluge 1.2.0-rc3 is in the repositories and I just upgraded, but I still can't get it to work. There are two problems: (1) deluge starts but apparently does not add the torrent of the magnet link -- maybe I am not seeing because magnet links are handled differently somehow? (2) if deluge is already running, it appears it starts up a second instance of deluge instead (and still does not start the magnet torrent).

Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

[jackhynes]

Any chance of getting it working in Transmission? Also will this work in Chromium?