Thread: Question about RSS and specific filter

Hello I wanted to ask a question about RSS.
Among other things I download from Torrent Leech ,I download series, and I usually download only new episodes.
Is there a filter you could write in rss manager , so that the rss wont download a real big things?
For example, if a new torrent comes out of an entire season of a series, I do not want to download the whole season, but only single episodes ..
Is there a way to download only the single episodes?
Thank you.
Sorry for my English

For starters, there's a good tutorial on this here: ruTorrent - RSS Filters

For your specific case, you probably want to use an exclude filter that filters out words that are commonly used to describe full seasons, packs, etc in torrent filenames. So, for example, let's say you want to download episodes of House season 8. You would probably write an include filter (to put in the "Filter" field of rutorrent's RSS Manager) like this:

/House.S08E*/i

That matches torrent filenames starting with "House.S08E", which by itself will probably eliminate full-season downloads. But then, to be safe, you would want an exclude filter (to put in the "Exclude" field of RSS Manager) like this:

/( .*DVDR$|.*.Pack$|Complete)/i

This will (usually) filter out DVD rips, packs, and complete seasons. You can filter out additional keywords by adding them inside the parentheses, separating them by a pipe. For example, if you don't want XviD-encoded episodes, you could modify that filter like this:

/( .*DVDR$|.*.Pack$|Complete|XviD)/i

Hope this is helpful!

Originally Posted by akaineko

For starters, there's a good tutorial on this here: ruTorrent - RSS Filters

For your specific case, you probably want to use an exclude filter that filters out words that are commonly used to describe full seasons, packs, etc in torrent filenames. So, for example, let's say you want to download episodes of House season 8. You would probably write an include filter (to put in the "Filter" field of rutorrent's RSS Manager) like this:

/House.S08E*/i

That matches torrent filenames starting with "House.S08E", which by itself will probably eliminate full-season downloads. But then, to be safe, you would want an exclude filter (to put in the "Exclude" field of RSS Manager) like this:

/( .*DVDR$|.*.Pack$|Complete)/i

This will (usually) filter out DVD rips, packs, and complete seasons. You can filter out additional keywords by adding them inside the parentheses, separating them by a pipe. For example, if you don't want XviD-encoded episodes, you could modify that filter like this:

/( .*DVDR$|.*.Pack$|Complete|XviD)/i

Hope this is helpful!

Thank you very much, you've been very helpful!
One short question
What is $ symbol stand for?

Originally Posted by uriel_cohen

Thank you very much, you've been very helpful!
One short question
What is $ symbol stand for?

The $ means that the filter should look for that string at the end of the torrent name. You could replace it with ".*" to match in the middle of the name as well.

Originally Posted by akaineko

The $ means that the filter should look for that string at the end of the torrent name. You could replace it with ".*" to match in the middle of the name as well.

OK thanks!

uriel_cohen, I understand that your question is about RSS but you would be better of IMO using irssi autodl to do autodl with TL as it has an announce channel.. Once you've set it up its much more user friendly and there is more options too such as having a max size for the torrents which you said you needed..

Irssi-autodl is really easy to install on a linux powered seedbox. If you want to go down this root and need any help with the install then shoot me a pm :)

Originally Posted by Kitkatra

uriel_cohen, I understand that your question is about RSS but you would be better of IMO using irssi autodl to do autodl with TL as it has an announce channel.. Once you've set it up its much more user friendly and there is more options too such as having a max size for the torrents which you said you needed..

Irssi-autodl is really easy to install on a linux powered seedbox. If you want to go down this root and need any help with the install then shoot me a pm :)

thanks , but in my current seedbox i don't have any access except for downloading.. but thanks anyway!

Hi,

I'll use this thread instead of opening a new one since my problem is basically the same.

I'm also using rtorrent (0.8.9/0.12.9) through ruTorrent browser interface.

I still didn't solve this issue despite following your advice, akaineko, and googling quite a bit :(

My problem is that the trackers I use the most don't use those keywords for complete season packs.

Examples:

One.Tree.Hill.S05.720p.WEB-DL.DD5.1.H.264-LP.torrent

or

Star.Wars.The.Clone.Wars.S04.720p.HDTV.x264.torrent (on another tracker)

Now, I still want to download individual episodes from these TV shows and even some better encodes from the very same seasons whose packs have already been uploaded in the above formats.

I've tried almost everything but I keep downloading the entire seasons.

What should I put in the exclude filter so that it will download:

One.Tree.Hill.S05E13.720p.WEB-DL.DD5.1.H.264-LP.torrent

or

Star.Wars.The.Clone.Wars.S04E20.720p.HDTV.x264.torrent

but not the entire season (with just S04 and S05 in the torrent name, respectively)

Many, many thanks in advance for any help on this

Cheers

What you've listed is pretty much the scene naming scheme and what akaineko posted should work for you.

/One.Tree.Hill.S05E*/i will download all episodes within season 5, but shouldn't download a pack made for season 5.

If you want the specific episode:

/One.Tree.Hill.S05E13*/i will download anything with that particular string.

The same thing can be done for Star Wars.

/Star.Wars.The.Clone.Wars.S04E*/i or /Star.Wars.The.Clone.Wars.S04E13*/i

The seasons should not download since your filters are looking for that exact string. In this case, filtered until the E which isn't present in any season pack.