[mythtv-users] Torrent Auto downloading from RSS
David Campbell
dave at cpfc.org
Tue Apr 17 20:03:57 UTC 2007
Cole Brodine wrote:
> Perhaps this is slightly off topic, but I'm hoping somebody here can at
> least point me in the right direction.
>
> I like to watch some internet TV shows, such as the ones listed on
> http://www.revision3.com/ (I'm trying to say, yes they are legal). They
> have an RSS feed which basically gives the updates whenever there is a
> torrent for a new episode.
>
> I'm looking for a command line interface program or combination of
> programs, scripts, etc, to put on my file server that would read the RSS
> feed, download the torrent file, place it in the appropriate folder, and
> then start downloading the torrent. This way, when I want to watch a
> new episode, It will already be ready to go for me in MythVideo.
>
> Does anybody know if such a beast exists? I'm running Gentoo, so I have
> a preference to anything that would be in portage. I have a feeling I'm
> out of luck, since some internet searches haven't turned up anything.
> The command line part seems to be the tricky part, but I don't have X
> installed on my file server.
I use podracer to do exactly this
http://podracer.sourceforge.net/
and symlink the podracer directory to under mythvideo.
Podracer creates a datestamp directory for each days podcasts
It is very nice.
Dave
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