Flexget RSS to download Torrents

[simonjhutton84]

Hi not sure if this is the right place to ask or not. I am trying to use RSS feeds and FlexGet to download torrents for some TV show's. the config.yml file for FlexGet seems to run, but i get errors saying that it's not a valid torrent file, or that it's unable to find any series/episode markers/numbers. I had it so that it fed straight into Deluge but that didn't do anything so i changed it so that it downloaded to a folder in my home folder but again nothing appeared in that folder. Are you able to help at all?

I'm doing this on an Ubuntu Server.

[Hiram]

Hey dude, don't tell us what TV shows you're acquiring! Don't want you to get yourself or us in trouble.

Start by omitting that information from your post, and then posting a censored version of your config.yml.

[simonjhutton84]

this is the config file i'm trying to use

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presets:
  ets:
  tv:
    series:
      settings:
        720p:
          timeframe: 8 hours
      720p:
        - Show1
        - Show2
        - Show3
        - Show4
    deluge: yes

feeds:
  TvTorrent1:
    rss: http://torrentz.eu/feed?q=Show1
    preset: tv

  TvTorrent2:
    rss: http://torrentz.eu/feed?q=Show2
    preset: tv

  TvTorrent3:
    rss: http://torrentz.eu/feed?q=Show3
    preset: tv

  TvTorrent4:
    rss: http://torrentz.eu/feed?q=Show4
    preset: tv

[Hiram]

Have you tried running flexget --test to see if there's something going wrong?

I'm not familiar with ets; what does it do?

Aside from that, everything looks pretty well in order!

[gazpachoking]

The torrentz.eu feed doesn't produce links directly to the .torrent file, but FlexGet has a built in urlrewriter which grabs the .torrent from zoink. This of course requires that zoink actually has your torrent for it to work, so could cause problems if you get results in your feed that zoink isn't currently hosting. If you want to figure out why things are not being accepted that you think should be, the --test, and -v options are very helpful. You may want to consider using a different feed, the usual model is to use a recent torrents feed rather than having a separate feed for each of your shows.

That being said, I just gave your config a test and it seems to work OK for me. You have an empty preset called 'ets' which isn't doing anything, but it doesn't seem to harm things either. This is a really cool idea actually, as it successfully added the entire most recent season to deluge for the show I tested. (And they all had seeds!) The one thing I changed is to force ep matching in the series plugin, as getting a lot of ill formatted entries all at once, (as that search feed is liable to do,) may confuse the series plugin. This would be the relevant part in the config:

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    series:
      settings:
        720p:
          timeframe: 8 hours
          identified_by: ep

If you have any shows that are not 'ep' (season and episode) format, you could make another series group for those.

The best way to get help with FlexGet is to come into our irc channel, [url=irc://irc.freenode.org/#flexget]#flexget on freenode[/url], or open a help ticket at our bug tracker.