Is a RealDebrid integration possible?

[itsToggle]

What problem are you are trying to solve?

I would like to rclone my RealDebrid Downloads. (So that I can use Plex to serve the files to family members)

How do you think rclone should be changed to solve that?

The RealDebrid api only allows for files to be downloaded, not uploaded and is very rudementary overall.
Would it be possible to make a read-only backend, that simply serves the downloaded files?
Ive had a look into the backend of premiumize, which is a pretty similar service.
If its too niche of a problem, could you guys maybe give me some pointers so that I can try to implement the backend myself?
Thanks!

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[Animosity022]

Very doubtful as it's not a cloud backend but a download tool.

https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#writing-a-new-backend

Can tag as a new backend, but unless you plan to implement it, I'll bet it just sits since there are so many requests for new backends without much demand/anyone to actually implement them.

[itsToggle]

I see.. well thank you, i'll have a go at writing it myself then :)

[Animosity022]

ncw is very good at asnwering/helping as well.

Your request is the 56th new backend that's open right now to give an idea :)

[itsToggle]

Previous comment of mine was solved by using cmount instead of WebDAV. WebDAV has file size limitations baked into windows.

To reiterate:
Ive rewritten some of the "premiumizeme" backend to instead call realdebrid's api. I can successfully use ls and lsd in the console. I can successfully mount the remote, using cmount remote: X:. Files can now be read on the virtual drive without any problems. Everything works as intended.

Is this something you guys want to implement? For my purposes im done, but if this were to be officially implemented, there are a few things that would need to be done:

• turn my rewritten premiumizeme backend into a standalone backend. I dont really now where the backends are referenced.
• remove all write capabilities (except for deletion), since they are non-functional.
• prompt the user to enter the personal api key. This already is an option for premiumizeme, but I couldnt figure out how to show the prompt, so I hardcoded my api key. (oauth does not work on realdebrid, since there is no way to obtain a client secret)

Other than that I dont see any reason why this couldnt be implemented. Here is the fork im working with now: https://github.com/itsToggle/rclone_RD
Thanks again for your help!

[ncw]

@itsToggle if you want to submit this as a PR then check out: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#writing-a-new-backend

It would be nice to have some sort of integration testing, but integration testing read only backends is quite hard.

• turn my rewritten premiumizeme backend into a standalone backend. I dont really now where the backends are referenced.

The doc should answer that.

• remove all write capabilities (except for deletion), since they are non-functional.

I'd recommend deleting as much code as possible, and making methods which are required but don't work return a not implemented error.

• prompt the user to enter the personal api key. This already is an option for premiumizeme, but I couldnt figure out how to show the prompt, so I hardcoded my api key. (oauth does not work on realdebrid, since there is no way to obtain a client secret)

Check out the Options structure and the configuration of the backend. (Check one of the other backends). Its easy to add as much configuration as you want.

Other than that I dont see any reason why this couldnt be implemented. Here is the fork im working with now: https://github.com/itsToggle/rclone_RD Thanks again for your help!

It seems to be exactly the same as the premiumize me API other than the root URL and the auth? Are premiumizeme and RealDebrid related?

In that case an option in the premiumizeme backend would be the way to go which will save having to maintain another backend.

[itsToggle]

Hey, Ive now added realdebrid as a seperate remote and created a pull request here: #6215

Thanks again for your help!

[ncw]

@itsToggle - I noticed you deleted your PR before I had a chance to review - are you going to add it back?

[itsToggle]

Hey, yes Im just trying to check more boxes before I reopen the PR. Are the 'test' files for read-only remotes necessary? Or do I just not create a 'test_remote.go' file?

[ncw]

Read only remotes are almost impossible to integration test... You can't use test_remote.go as that needs to write to the repo.

Don't worry about it for the moment, and I'll have a think when I see your code in the PR.

[itsToggle]

Thanks! I will create a new PR, since the main branch im working on has a changed README file.

[dreulavelle]

Any news on this by chance @ncw ?