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carzzz215

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Registered: 2007-10-14

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A good RSS reader with auto torrent download capability?

I'm creating a torrent download box using deluge.  The problem is, deluge doesn't seem to have its RSS plugin built into it anymore, but it does support auto downloading by putting torrents in a folder that deluge will watch.  I now just need an RSS program to download the torrents from an RSS feed with support for regular expressions.  Does anyone have any good ideas?

I would prefer not to use ktorrent at all, although even when I tried testing it out, I couldn't find its RSS capabilities.

elmer_42

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Registered: 2008-10-11

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Re: A good RSS reader with auto torrent download capability?

If the RSS feed gives direct links to .torrent files, you could set up a cron job to automatically download the latest item ever 24 hours or so and place it in Deluge's auto-add folder.

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carzzz215

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Registered: 2007-10-14

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Re: A good RSS reader with auto torrent download capability?

I suppose that could be an option.  But with these torrents, time is ratio.  I need the torrent no later than 5 minutes after its released.  And i'm not quite sure how to write a cron job

Can I have a cron job run every 5 minutes?

dmz

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Registered: 2008-08-27

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Re: A good RSS reader with auto torrent download capability?

Skip that crappy deluge client and install rtorrent and rssdler and you'd be fine.

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elmer_42

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Registered: 2008-10-11

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Re: A good RSS reader with auto torrent download capability?

Can I have a cron job run every 5 minutes?

Yes, you can. The Arch Wiki doesn't have a guide on cron, but the Ubuntu Wiki has a guide here that should help you.

If this is a machine with low specs, you could get by with rtorrent. The only reason I don't use rtorrent day-to-day is because I'm not smart enough to figure out how to limit connections. You could use rtorrent + rssdler and be just fine.

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carzzz215

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Registered: 2007-10-14

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Re: A good RSS reader with auto torrent download capability?

That rssdler looks good! And I'll check out Ubuntu's cron wiki.  Thank you!