FlexRSS plugin

[bathat]

Hi,
I've been trying to get this plugin to work. It looks to be very powerful but I'm having some difficulties getting it to download TV shows. After searching this thread for 'regex', I was able to figure out the syntax (you might want to publicize this better). So I type, say 'My.Name.is.Earl.s%se%e.hdtv.xvid-(?!CTU)' into the Test field and it finds a match. However, it never actually adds the torrent to the download list. I have the update interval set to 5 minutes.


I'm probably missing something trivial. I've tried selecting both Link and Title with no change in results. I'm sure this is a great plugin if I could get it to work. Thanks!

Deluge seems to have improved dramatically since v0.3.0.

[daddy]

bathat,

What is the feed's URL (feel free to PM it to me if you don't want the world to know)? My first guess is that you are using a feed which has a link pointing to a details page, not the actual torrent (for example, mininova). The best choice would be to use a feed that links directly to the torrent, but FlexRSS also includes support for link rewriting, which also uses regular expressions.

You might be interested in the documentation for Python's regular expession implementation, and the re::sub (for link rewriting). There is also a more gentle python-oriented introduction.

[bathat]

Sure, the RSS feed url is http://tvrss.net/feed/eztv and you're exactly right... it links to Mininova, which explains a lot. It seems like I've had this working with uTorrent before, but maybe its RSS feature is able to handle this with greater ease. I'm trying to get http://rss.bt-chat.com/?group=3 to work, which links directly to the torrent file. I thought I'd had trouble with this feed before, but it works fine.

I'm not certain how to control link rewriting so I think I'll take the easier road... appreciate it though.

Btw, it's nice how the plugin prints messages to the terminal.


No success so far... not sure what's wrong now.

[test]

Hi, after some problems with the SimpleRSS plugin I found FlexRSS and it looks that's just what I need, but I had some trouble.

I could install it (deluge 0.5.5 / gutsy) and runs fine; I added one feed: http://www.mininova.org/rss/rwc?direct
and it is now fetching the torrent links, awesome.

I created a filter, type Generic, with a single regex: "Rugby.Union.*45"
which matches one of the existing torrent names, as I could verify with the Test function)

Questions:
- Shouldn't the matched torrent name start downloading automatically? ; if not, how can I do just that: make it download everything that matches?

- I tried with a second filter, same type, "Rugby.Union.*48", which when added, didn't match anything, but the day after a new torrent showed up that matched it. However, FlexRSS being active and all, it didn't download it.

So my problem is, I could never get FlexRSS to automatically fetch any torrent. BTW, the feed link indeed contains the direct links to the torrents, so that does not seem to be the problem.

Thanks!

[daddy]

I created a filter, type Generic, with a single regex: "Rugby.Union.*45" which matches one of the existing torrent names, as I could verify with the Test function)

Looks like ther was a bug when handling generic filters that had never matched anything before (i.e., new filters). I uploaded a new version, which should fix things for you.

That said, you probably shouldn't be using a generic filter for this. Generic filters work by remembering the URL of the torrent they've downloaded, which means you may download the same thing more than once. If I were you, I would use a "TV Show" filter, with the pattern "Rugby.Union-RWC.2007.-%e". That way you don't have to create a filter for each event. If you want, you can use history restriction to download only download new matches.


bathat,

The bug I just fixed could be your problem, too, if you're using generic filters, which you definitely shouldn't be. You should also use "TV Show". Right click an item in the feeds tab, and choose "create filter" to see an example.

[bathat]

Ok, so now I'm using the TV Show type and have removed 's%se%e' from the pattern. However, it's still not working.

[daddy]

Okay, I finally wrote some documentation. Of course, when I tried to put it on the wiki I got some BS about not having the necessary privileges, so I'm just going to attach the HTML version to this post. I'll bug the deluge devs about the wiki later. Maybe. If someone wants to do it for me, that would be cool

Edit (23/10/2007): markybob took care of it, so the documentation is now on the wiki.

If you're having trouble with the plugin, read this document.

Ok, so now I'm using the TV Show type and have removed 's%se%e' from the pattern.

Why did you remove s%se%e? If you take that out, it will think every episode is series 0, episode 0.

[markybob]

Okay, I finally wrote some documentation. Of course, when I tried to put it on the wiki I got some BS about not having the necessary privileges, so I'm just going to attach the HTML version to this post. I'll bug the deluge devs about the wiki later. Maybe. If someone wants to do it for me, that would be cool

If you're having trouble with the plugin, read this document.

Ok, so now I'm using the TV Show type and have removed 's%se%e' from the pattern.

Why did you remove s%se%e? If you take that out, it will think every episode is series 0, episode 0.

consider me bugged ;P i'll take care of it in a day or so...we're relaunching a new website and all sorts of stuff.

[bathat]

I was able to get it working by going to Feeds and creating a filter from there. It doesn't find a match when I test for the pattern, yet it works.

Thanks for posting the documentation.

[ids]

Today I added a feed, setup a few downloads, when i manually clicked the check feed button it started downloading 36 torrents only one of which fit the criteria i set up.

i saw you mentioned you are going to add a feature to sort the downloads. a+++ that is huge to me.