Note: This page is still under construction !
The addon called „RemoteControl“ allows you to control remotely your JDownloader-client by doing so-called HTTP-requests. In doing so you execute commands which are nothing else than URLs that will be called over the network-protocol HTTP. This can be done by simply typing them into the address-bar of a webbrowser or by (and that's why this addon was made) other applications and scripts that can handle HTTP-requests.
For instance you can implement a script with few lines that will scan a folder for new added .dlc-conatiners which will be send to JDownloader then that will automatically add and download the related links. So that you could simply scan a FTP for .dlc-files. Another useful task could be sending linkgrabber lists from one JDownloader-instance to another (remote) instance.
A propper remote-API will probably come some day but until it's done the „new old“ „RemoteControl“ will do the job quite well, I think.