I use µTorrent as my bittorrent client and have been screwing around with its RSS downloader for a while to have it automatically download TV programs. Well I finally cracked that nut and thought it might help a few others to share. Here are the steps I used:
- Grab your RSS feeds from TVRss.net, it does some auto-converting of Mininova feeds to point to torrent files that you’ll need. For example, here is my Daily Show Feed.
- Once you have added all the feeds you want to µTorrent, then you need to set filters up on the Favorites tab. This is where I got hung up at. I tried to use a wildcard telling it to bring in everything. For some reason, that did not work. So, I have a filter for each feed and if, for example, the feed is the daily show, my filter is *aily*. I also selected a directory for it to save files to and nothing else is marked (other than the text box which has the name of the feed I am working on).
When you first add these it will pull in everything, go ahead and delete what you don’t want and it should act semi-normally after that. If you hit the ? mark on the Favorites tab, it will state the shows that last qualify under that filter. Mine read “Too Many” instead of “N/A” which I had been getting. Also you may need to close the program and restart after adding these to kickstart the process. Any questions, feel free to leave a comment.