azp / rsstorrent

Service to automatically download torrent files

Rsstorrent

Rsstorrent.py: A small tool that monitors an RSS-feed and automatically downloads torrents to a specified folder.

It daemonizes after start and polls specified URLs at a specified interval. Init files are included for Gentoo (rc-init) and Debian/Ubuntu (not systemd).

Dependencies

It utilizes various packages to work. Dependencies:

# Standard packages
os
signal
urllib.request
urllib.parse
urllib.error
http.cookiejar
time
re
logging
configparser
argparse
# Special packages
feedparser
daemon

Instructions for use

1. Download the files and unpack into a directory.

2. Change the file rsstorrent.py to be runnable (chmod +x rsstorrent.py or right-click it, choose properties and fix it there).

   2.1. Copy the rsstorrent.py to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin to make it launchable via init script.

3. Copy the config file to ~/.rsstorrents/ and edit it there. The comments in the file should be fairly self-explanatory (if not, please file a bug!):

   3.1. Set an RSS-feed to monitor. This might include your login and some hash-values generated by your site.

   3.2. Set the directory to which you want to download your files.

   3.3. Add search patterns in a basic regular expression form. "." (without the quotes) is the wildcard to use. "." means any character and "" means 0 or more occurrences of it. Rsstorrent using Python's regular expressions without manipulation.

   3.4. Set your username and password to the torrent site, this is used to download the actual files.

4. Copy the init file that suits your system (Gentoo or Debian/Ubuntu. Feel free to contribute with more init files!) to the /etc/init.d/ folder and remove the trailing distribution name. Make it executable by doing chmod -x rsstorrent.

5. Then start the script by running /etc/init.d/rsstorrent start.

and after that you should be up'n'running. Over and out!