On downloading television shows...

[nowalmart]

I have been without a television for several months now, so I have resorted to downloading episodes of shows I want to see. In the past I used Azureus and its RSS handling abilities. As the program has grown into the Vuze monstrosity, I have been moving over to other things if possible.

The first step was moving to an RSS downloader to automatically download .torrent files. With minimal work I got RSSDler working. Great, so now I have a folder full of .torrent files.

I tried several command-line BitTorrent clients, but I either could not get them installed or could not get them working effectively. rTorrent looks the most promising, but I never could get it to work. I will have to give it another try soon. The other option would be cTorrent, although I am not sure cTorrent supports a watch-folder, so a little more work would have to go into getting that to work.

In the meantime I have continued to use Azureus, set to watch the folder RSSDler is downloading to. It works, but moving to a non-GUI client would be nice.

Comments

[nowalmart.livejournal.com]

I suppose the one thing that was not immediately clear (but now makes sense) is that minSize and maxSize both check the size of the file the .torrent is distributing, not the size of the actual .torrent file itself.

If you set maxSize too small (thinking "I just want to download the .torrent file"), RSSdler will never download anything.