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Automated Torrents with Bash, RTorrent and RSS Torrent Feeds
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crontab.sh
@hourly "sh ~/torrent-feeds.sh" # add this line by editing your cron jobs ("crontab -e")
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torrent-feeds.sh
cd ~/torrents/ # where your .torrent files will download and where the data will be saved to
curl "www.dailytvtorrents.org/rss/allshows" | grep -o '<a href="[^"]*' | grep -o '[^"]*$' | xargs wget -c # download the feed, hunt for .torrent urls then save them all locally
rtorrent ./*.torrent # launch rtorrent and load all torrents in this (working) directory
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