TFRSS for TorrentFlux

I’ve been using a web-based torrent manager called TorrentFlux-b4rt for the past few weeks. It’s a great script that allows me to manage my downloads from any computer with an internet connection. Also, I can place a torrent file in a folder on the server and TorrentFlux will pick it up and start downloading it right away.

One great feature of TorrentFlux is that I can keep track of torrent rss feeds right there in the web interface. So, I can check the rss feed each morning, and just click on the tv shows I want to download. This is great, except I want my tv shows to download automatically over night without my intervention.

Unfortunately there was no way to do this in TorrentFlux and I didn’t want to dig into the code to figure out how to make this happen, so I decided to write a Perl script to do the job for me. It took me a while to get into the language (I’ve never used it before), and I had to figure out how to parse XML files, but once I was done I had a great script that would look through an rss feed for my tv shows and automatically download them for me.

There seemed to be a bit of interest in the TorrentFlux community for this kind of functionality, so I packaged it up under the GPL license, and posted it in the forums. I have a copy of TFRSS here as well.