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flexget-limiter

A flexget plugin for stop task when high I/O or network usage

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Requirement

Flexget
Python 3.X or Python 2.7 Other version solution
psutil, Please use pip install psutil to install

Install

Install psutil

pip install psutil

Download plugin limiter.py
Create a new plugins folder under the Flexget configuration folder, for example:

~/.flexget/plugins/                   # Linux
C:\Users\<YOURUSER>\flexget\plugins\  # Windows

Copy the limiter.py to the plugins folder
If Web-UI or daemon is enabled, please restart Flexget to reload the configuration

Usage

Editing the Flexget configuration. Add limiter option and configure as needed

limiter:
  down: 1000       # download speed KB/s
  up: 100          # upload speed KB/s
  disk:
    read: 10000    # disk read speed KB/s
    write: 10000   # disk write speed KB/s

advanced

limiter:
  wait: 1          # detection time, second, default: 1s
  reject: no       # reject all items, yes or no, default: no

When the system parameter exceeds the configured value, the current Flexget task will stop<br> Note: The configuration can be incomplete, just set the parameters you want to limit

Start Flexget

flexget execute

Configuration example

Stop task when upload speed exceeds 10MB/s

tasks:
  my-limit-upload-task:
    rss: https://www.example.com/rss
    limiter:
      down: 10240  # 10 x 1024 = 10240
    download: ~/flexget/torrents/

Stop task when disk write speed exceeds 80MB/s

tasks:
  my-limit-write-task:
    rss: https://www.example.com/rss
    limiter:
      disk:
        write: 81920  # 80 x 1024 = 81920
    download: ~/flexget/torrents/

Q&A

How can I use because my python version is 2.X ?

<span id="version"></span> This plugin only supports Python 3.X or Python 2.7. Other versions are not available. Please uninstall Flexget and install with Python3.

pip uninstall flexget  # uninstall
pip3 install flexget   # install with pip3