Control Tribler service with systemd

[im-vmn]

I run Tribler in server mode (with --server) and wrote a simple unit file to launch Tribler, but now I want to implement stop and restart calls. Usually I use SIGTERM, if I know that a program handles it, but in this case I am not sure if my torrents will be ok after that. So, what is the best way to kill Tribler?

[qstokkink]

Sending an HTTP PUT request to the /api/shutdown REST API endpoint is the clean way to shut down Tribler.

It should be something along the lines of this:

curl -X PUT http://127.0.0.1:8085/api/shutdown

[im-vmn]

Thank you, it works. Where can I find information about API?

[qstokkink]

We support Swagger. So, browsing to http://127.0.0.1:8085/docs (or whatever host+port you're listening on), will show all the available calls. If you authorize the interface with your key, you can even make REST calls to Tribler from there.

[im-vmn]

Thank you!

[qstokkink]

You're welcome. 👌

By the way, we do have a systemd service file, technically. However, it hasn't been touched in 6 years and it is now completely broken. We would very much enjoy any contributions, if you have a working setup.