View source for Torrent management: Grab RSS feeds

[http://flexget.com/ flexget] will extract the torrent files provided in an RSS feed.  It has lots of bells and whistles but isn't difficult to set up for simple extraction either.

First, download [http://flexget.com/ flexget].  For this example, we'll put it in [~/scripts/flexget].

Then, make sure you've installed the packages that flexget requires: python and yaml.  To install yaml on my fav distro, gentoo, add this to the bottom of [/etc/portage/package.keywords]...
 # MDM For flexget rss .torrent broadcatcher...
 dev-python/pyyaml
 dev-libs/libyaml
Then emerge...
 emerge -Davu dev-python/pyyaml dev-libs/libyaml

Now we want to configure flexget.  Edit [flexget/config.yml] to do so.  There are tons of ways to filter the RSS feed, but here I'll just provide a simple example to download all torrent files provided by the feed, and put them in our torrent directory for immediate download...
 feeds:
   myfeed:
     rss: http://url.com/torrent_rss.php
     download: ~/download/torrents/

That's all we need!


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