[Kiwix-developer] ZIM torrents seeding: stay up to date

[Adrien A. <adr...@la...>]

Hi,

first, thank you for this great project.


I am benefiting and contributing to Kiwix by having ZIM files local
copies and seeding their torrents.

The thing is I don't see other way to stay up to date that by regularly
manualy checking
if new ZIM files version are published.

I'd like to locally run some daemon, that, from a library file (ZIM file
list), would download any new file version and seed it,
while always keeping locally one full ZIM file.


Some ideas:

The library file would be something like:
wikibooks_en_all_maxi
wikibooks_eo_all_nopic
wikibooks_pt_all_maxi
wikivoyage_en_all_maxi
wiktionary_es_all_maxi
…
or:
wikibooks_(en|eo|es|fr|nl|pt|zh)_all_(nopic|maxi)
wikipedia_(en|fr)_all_nopic
wikivoyage_(en|es|fr|nl|pt|zh)_all_(nopic|maxi)
wiktionary_(en|eo|es|fr|nl|pt)_all_(nopic|maxi)
…
and this daemon could call torrent clients like Transmission with for
instance https://github.com/Trim21/transmission-rpc


Maybe some existing tools could be used to achieve this.
If needed, I have some skills in Python programming.

What do you think?

Regards,

-- 
Adrien