I was looking for a way to parse a RSS feed I built using yahoo pipes and add new torrents to Transmission to download them automatically. I couldn’t find anything useful, so I just wrote a python script to do just that. If you want to use it, you’ll need to configure the first lines of this file to suit your needs. The script is pretty self explanatory.
You can always find the latest version of the script at my github repo
Disclaimer:
I use this script to download legal torrents 
Comments 5
there are illegal torrents on the net?
Posted 27 Jan 2010 at 23:31 ¶Not that I am aware of
Posted 28 Jan 2010 at 02:11 ¶I am having a problemwhen running the script:
Posted 30 Apr 2011 at 19:29 ¶————
Could not read date of last feed, using last 3 weeks 2011-04-09 19:28:08.041163
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./rss_download.py”, line 55, in
lastdate = datetime.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(feedInfo.entries[0].modified_parsed))
IndexError: list index out of range
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Any ideas?
Forget about the above error… I have just realised that is the usual output when no torrents meeting the ReGex criteria were found.
Posted 30 Apr 2011 at 19:38 ¶Thanks very much for the script!
Hello,
Thank you for your comments.
I updated the script so it gives a more meaningful message when the feed does not contain valid entries.
You can always get the latest version of the script at my github repo
Posted 01 May 2011 at 17:52 ¶Post a Comment