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    Default Automatically download your favorite TV shows or anything

    Hello, this is for all those who up till now were oblivious to one of uTorrent's (and i think Azureus too with plugin help) most useful and amazing features, in the end u will end up saving a lot of time and hassle.

    For this u will need, (1) a torrent site which supports links to torrent files in RSS Feeds. For those who don't know what a feed is look here. (2) uTorrent 1.8 (different procedure than 1.7) or Azureus (i'm only explaining on uT, there may be other clients supporting this)

    Find out if a tracker u visit supports this feature.

    To find out if the site supports this feature, click on the feeds for a tracker website, and click on the link of a particular entry on the feeds page. If you have a popup to save the torrent file, then u are good to go, if u r directed to a webpage, then auto dl will not be possible.

    (AFAIK Demonoid does not support direct torrent feeds, u can try, i never needed to, sorry )



    Now first of all u will need to add the feed subscription in uTorrent.

    Click on File--->Add RSS Feed


    The Add/Edit RSS Feed dialog allows you to enter a new feed for µTorrent to monitor, or edit an existing feed. Feeds must contain direct links to .torrent files in at least one of either the <guid>, <link>, or <enclosure> tags in order to be used correctly.

    Feed

    The Feed URL field specifies the URL that the RSS feed is located at. Depending on the method used by the website for authenticating users (if any), the URL may have to be entered in a specific format.
    The Custom Alias field allows you to give a custom name to the feed. If unchecked, µTorrent will attempt to automatically detect the feed name based on the title specified in the feed itself.

    This is the URL of the feeds page located in the address page of the feed list.



    Subscription

    Do not automatically download items tells µTorrent not to automatically create a simple favorite for the RSS feed to download any torrent in the feed.

    Automatically download items published in feed tells µTorrent to create a simple favorite for the RSS feed that matches and downloads any item in the feed (uses * as the filter).

    Use smart episode filter applies the smart episode filter to the simple favorite.


    Now to add a favorite feed in uTorrent (to auto download), click on Options--->RSS Downloader .

    The Favorites tab manages filters that allow µTorrent to automatically download specific torrents from a RSS feed.

    The listbox displays all filters that µTorrent will use when parsing the RSS feeds. If the checkbox next to a filter is checked, it will be used by µTorrent to pick out a torrent to download. Otherwise, the filter is ignored by µTorrent. Filters can be sorted using drag-and-drop.

    The Add button allows you to enter a new filter for µTorrent to use when parsing RSS feeds. After you press "Add", you must name the filter immediately. You can edit this name later by selecting the filter from the listbox and pressing F2 on your keyboard. An alternative is to slow double-click the filter and rename it directly.

    The Delete button allows you to delete the filter that is currently selected.
    The ? (question mark) button tests displays the last time the selected filter matched a torrent. It also displays the last 4 torrents matched (if any) and any currently-matching torrents from all applicable feeds. This can be used to double-check your filter.

    The real stuff, The Filters

    If you do not want to go through all this below, just scroll down and look at the screenshot i have attached.

    The Filter field allows you to tell µTorrent what you want to match. Wildcards can be used to generalize the filter. Note that you cannot specify the season or episode number in this filter if it is decoded by µTorrent. You must use the episode number box, or enable "Filter matches original name instead of decoded name". This field is case insensitive.

    The Not field allows you to specify text that, if matched by a torrent, will cause µTorrent to ignore it. Wildcards can be used to generalize the filter. Note that you cannot specify the season or episode number in this filter if it is decoded by µTorrent. You must use the episode number box, or enable "Filter matches original name instead of decoded name". This field is case insensitive.

    The Save in field allows you to specify where you want µTorrent to download the torrent contents to. If this field is specified, µTorrent will automatically start the torrent job. Note that if you already have a default download location set, you do not have to set a directory here.

    The Feed dropdown menu allows you to select a particular feed that you want the filter to apply to. If you want µTorrent to apply this filter to every feed, leave this dropdown menu as (All).

    The Quality menu allows you to select the quality of the torrents, if it is a video. If what you want to filter is not a video, leave this option as ALL. Note that setting this option is not an absolute necessity, even if you are trying to download a video.

    The Episode Number field allows you to specify specific episodes to download. This field supports ranges, so if you want to download episodes 1 through 26 of season 3 of some series, you input 3x1-26 into this field. If you want to specify the ending season in addition to the starting season, you can enter something like 3x1-4x15 into the field. If you want to specify the beginning of a range, but not the end (you would like µTorrent to continue every subsequent episode, including in later seasons), something like 3x1- would suffice. Notice the - (hyphen) after the 1. If you prefer, S3E1 can also be used to specify episodes instead of the above-shown 3x1.
    Filter matches original name instead of decoded name forces µTorrent to apply the filter on the torrent name itself. Normally, µTorrent parses the torrent name and applies the filter on the decoded name, which excludes certain things like quality and episode number.

    Don't start downloads automatically tells µTorrent to add torrent jobs matching the favorite in stopped mode instead of starting them automatically.

    Give download highest priority places a matching torrent at the top of the download queue (#1). Because this is not a forced start, if you pass your maximum number of active torrent jobs after this torrent job gets started, the started torrent closest to the end of the queue will be stopped and will have to wait on the queue.

    Smart ep. filter causes µTorrent to download the first version of each new episode that matches your filter. Note that you should not enable this option if the episode number is not parseable (when the Episode column is empty).

    The Minimal interval dropdown menu sets the minimal interval between each time the filter is matched. For example, if set to 2 days, µTorrent will not attempt to match the filter again until at least 2 days have passed.
    (match always) tells µTorrent to check the filter for matches every time it checks the RSS feeds.

    (match only once) tells µTorrent to use the filter only once. After a torrent job is added to the torrent jobs list by the filter, µTorrent won't check the filter for any more matches.
    The Reset button forces µTorrent to forget when it last matched the filter.
    The Label for new torrents combobox tells µTorrent to set any torrent that matches this filter to the specified label.


    NOTE: You must have prior knowledge whether a tracker has TV shows or whatever u want, uploaded or not.



    For those who have been scared seeing the long post, just look at the screenshot below, u will get the idea.

    This is what i have added to the RSS Downloader to have it download Scrubs episodes almost simultaneously as the show is aired in the US or being uploaded to the tracker. Most private trackers have the content uploaded as soon as it airs.



    I have written *720*|*1080* in the NOT field, so that the show is not downloaded in High definition.

    NOTE 2: Do not select the 'automatically download....' option in the 'add RSS Feed' window, your disc will be full in seconds then out of space, since it will download all the entries in the feed :lol: Trust me i've been there


    Disclaimer : This post is not meant to promote illegal content downloads. I have no responsibility whatsoever about what the users who see this post, will download on their computer.
    Last edited by StarK; 01-12-09 at 07:56 PM.

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    Excellent article mate... rep + for you

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    Thank you m8...

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    nice one starry

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    :thumbup:

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    Quote Originally Posted by StarryKnight View Post
    Thank you m8...
    welcome mate !

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    Thanks for taking the time to write this article down

    Reps added.

    I have also submitted this article on digg.

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    Thumbs up

    It will take time to read & understand.

    Nice effort...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Admin View Post
    Thanks for taking the time to write this article down

    Reps added.

    I have also submitted this article on digg.
    Thanks Admin, actually the filters part was taken from the utorrent help file... but i did add some personal experiences to it... Would have made it much better if i had some more time on my hands.

    Quote Originally Posted by DM111PUSP View Post
    It will take time to read & understand.

    Nice effort...
    Thanks man... yup it'l take some time if u dont get it from the screenshot.
    Last edited by StarK; 01-15-09 at 07:47 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

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    thanks a lot for this article ... very descriptive .. reps + for you

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    u are welcome m8... glad u liked it. :thumbup: n thanks.

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    nice description of all the things........repo points to you......
    thanx for sharing such nice info........

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    Quote Originally Posted by amitkool21 View Post
    nice description of all the things........repo points to you......
    thanx for sharing such nice info........
    np and thank you too

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    keep it up.. now i will do it perfectly.. thanks reppo added..

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    thx m8!

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