Thread: RSS Feeds - Increase your ratio quick with auto-downloading!

Don't add any filters, and it should grab everything that gets posted

You always have the option to exclude certain files(torrents) under filter settings.

Originally Posted by Aeryn237

By the way, if anyone wants to run RSS on a linux box in conjunction with rtorrent; try FlexGet.

I've been using it for a while now, and it works really well. :) Just set it up to download the .torrent files to your watchdir, and they'll macigally appear in rtorrent.

Use the following cronjob to make it run once every minute: * * * * * /path/to/flexget.py -q

And make sure you got all the dependencies installed properly on your system (it's all explained in the installation guide). :001_smile:

Aeryn could you be more specific please.
Installing the dependencies on my pc isn't an issue but how did you get the torrent files to send to your seedbox's watchdir?
Also what did you mean by this "* * * * * /path/to/flexget.py -q"
What are the stars for :001_tongue:
Thanks

Originally Posted by konVILEuted

Aeryn could you be more specific please.
Installing the dependencies on my pc isn't an issue but how did you get the torrent files to send to your seedbox's watchdir?
Also what did you mean by this "* * * * * /path/to/flexget.py -q"
What are the stars for :001_tongue:
Thanks

I cant help you with seedboxes as i have no experience with them, but i can help you with cron. This is what he meant by the stars.


* * * * * command to be executed
- - - - -
| | | | |
| | | | +----- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0)
| | | +------- month (1 - 12)
| | +--------- day of month (1 - 31)
| +----------- hour (0 - 23)
+------------- min (0 - 59)


It is the syntax for cron entries: * * * * * command to be executed

Example :A line in crontab file like below executes flexget.py each day at 8:45 PM.
45 20 * * * /path/to/flexget.py -q

For flexget, you need to make a configuration file. By default FlexGet tries to find config.yml from it's installation directory. This is the syntax:

feeds:
__tv-shows:
____rss: http://example.com/rss.xml
____series:
______- dexter
______- southpark
____download: ~/torrents/
(Had to use underscores because i couldnt use spaces, and indentation is important. DO NOT use underscores in the original config file.)
The "feeds" is the container that may contain many feeds. "tv-shows" is a
feed, with 3 plugins, "rss", "series" and "download". Always use 2 spaces for indentation to the next level.
i.e from "feeds" to "tv-shows" = 2 spaces and so on. Download is download directory(watchdir).
Sorry if its too long and hope it helps. Id write a tutorial about flex but im too lazy

Thanks for the heads up scooby.
I'll be giving it a shot once I install Win7.
Im about to do a super-format of my computer. Bye-bye vista and ubuntu (temporarily).
Don't ask why lol.

When you say
"Now it'll download for you even when your not on"
What do you mean by that?

Thanks swood

Originally Posted by swood

When you say
"Now it'll download for you even when your not on"
What do you mean by that?

Thanks swood

He means that as soon as the release is upped by to the rss feed and the tracker, utorrent will automatically start downloading it. You dont have to do anything, you just have to leave utorrent running and it will do everything for you.

Well said scooby.
Yes. By "on" i meant at the computer.
If the computer is off uTorrent wont be doing much downloading..

thanks man great post. i actually just did this today, i always thought you needed to use irc to auto-download. now maybe my ratios will start to get even better then they are now. by the way, do you know for certain that it is bad to set the upate tracker interval to 0? just because i want mine to always update so that i can be one of the first to download the torrent. thanks

Originally Posted by bobtheslob

thanks man great post. i actually just did this today, i always thought you needed to use irc to auto-download. now maybe my ratios will start to get even better then they are now. by the way, do you know for certain that it is bad to set the upate tracker interval to 0? just because i want mine to always update so that i can be one of the first to download the torrent. thanks

Do you mean making the "Rss.update_interval" to 0? That would certainly not be recommended, as a lot of trackers are very strict about not bombarding the rss feeds with queries. You could even get a ban for it so better be on the safe side...