Thread: Help with Filter for RSS Feed !

I already have a filter set whereby all new torrents are downloaded ---> /.*/i

Now I want to set another filter (probably an "exclude" filter) whereby I don't want to be downloading torrents bigger than 15GB

How do I do that?



P.S. Do you know where I could find a good tutorial on RSS Filters?

The bittorrent client should have an option somewhere in Settings for RSS download size. I think you can not filter this out with perl regular expressions. However, I do not know much about this.

Originally Posted by silentninja

The bittorrent client should have an option somewhere in Settings for RSS download size. I think you can not filter this out with perl regular expressions. However, I do not know much about this.

Do you know about ruTorrent v3.2/3.3 which I am using for my seedbox?

ruTorrent is a WEB GUI for rTorrent, try to look in your ruTorrent settings. rTorrent does not have an RSS reader and downloader by default but my guess is that it may use rssdler for RSS. If it is true then you need look for a settings file for rssdler, there should be a variable called maxSize or something similar, change it. Here is some information rTorrent with RSS-feeds « Zoogen.net But the first thing you should do is to determine what kind of RSS applications are being used in your seedbox.

Some client filters will let you filter by size. AFAIK, rutorrent doesn't have this option. Silentninja has a good suggestion; look into rssdler. You may also want to Google to see if anyone else has found a creative workaround for this or perhaps knows about an ru/rtorrent option that we don't.

Also check out this post for general advice on using rutorrent filters.

Originally Posted by copper

Some client filters will let you filter by size. AFAIK, rutorrent doesn't have this option. Silentninja has a good suggestion; look into rssdler. You may also want to Google to see if anyone else has found a creative workaround for this or perhaps knows about an ru/rtorrent option that we don't.

Also check out this post for general advice on using rutorrent filters.

i am checking my settings on ruTorrent now, i can't find anything named "RSSdler"...

i will go ahead and check that post.. thanks!

Originally Posted by torrentmak

i am checking my settings on ruTorrent now, i can't find anything named "RSSdler"...
i will go ahead and check that post.. thanks!

You sort of did that backwards. If you read the link first you'd have found out that RSSDler is an utility that adds features. It would need to be installed if it isn't already on your seedbox.

You'd want to configure rssdler.rc to limit the torrent size, i.e.

#Maximum file size, 0 = unlimited.
maxSize = 15000000000

i am checking my settings on ruTorrent now, i can't find anything named "RSSdler"...

Noes.. You have to FTP to your seedbox, go to your home directory, browse hidden files. Or you need to do it through a Terminal/Console - SSH to your seedbox and then do

Code:

cd

to make sure you are in your home directoy and then list your hidden files with

Code:

ls -a

and then you can do whatever you want - view them or amend them etc.

P.S. Your seedbox provider may store those files where they please, this is an example if it is a default configuration.