How to use RSS in ruTorrent without irssi!

I don't like autodl-irssi. A lot of people do, I don't. So I needed a way to make my ruTorrent automatically start my shows and movies.

See, ruTorrent already HAD a RSS plugin BEFORE autodl-irssi, but a lot of people just like the new one. Again. I don't, quite frankly I hate it, it's just too complicated.

But the old plugin uses RegEx filters in order to grab your shows, when I first saw them I found it really really annoying and complicated, but once you understand it, it's not.

First things first you need an RSS feed, you can get these from your private trackers servers, usually there's a huge button that says RSS.

Here is how to use it



On Speed.CD it looks like this:

Click on that and you'll have a list of things, that looks like this:

Now select what you want to download, don't select them all, it only gives you so many choices at once. Let's say I wanted just HD TV, my selection would look like this:

Notice I also selected "Download link" in the feed type, this is necessary for ruTorrent to pull the torrent from your trackers server, "Web link" just won't do for this.

Now that you have that you'll want to add the feed to your ruTorrent, go to your "Feeds" tab on the bar to your left on your browser, and right click on the "All Feeds" selection, like this:

Then you will get this popup, put your feed URL from the tracker page that you did earlier in the tutorial, like this:

Name it whatever you want.

Now that's all done, you can set up RegEx filters! (YAY NOT REALLY EXCLAMATION POINT WORTHY!)

Head over to that big WiFi looking button on ruTorrent, looks like this:

Click it and stuff then you'll get the RSS Manager, like this:

I have some filters already in there, with RegEx format.

RegEx is basically just the name of what you want to download, but with a few extra characters, lets say you wanted Adventure Time, like I have in the example, you would need to type this into the filter:

/Adventure Time.*/i

You do NOT need the periods you see in your file names! The name MUST be inside the /*/ tags, the * is called 'wildcard' it means you don't give a damn who released it or what format it is. If you wanted Adventure Time SPECIFICALLY in 720p, you would want this:

 /Adventure Time.*720.*/i

The 'i' closes your tags essentially. It is pretty necessary to complete the filter. The label function also allows the torrent to be categorized automatically into whatever label you want, I have mine in TODO because I like to know what my box has been downloading for me. Then I do what I need to with the files then send them to TV labels.

Anyways, your filter is going to download any and all Adventure Times in the selected categories you chose in the RSS steps from your tracker. You can also select the directories they go into also, but not as many users will need that as they probably have a pre-made seedbox from a distributor.

Now, ruTorrent has a bit of a problem with its pre-configuration, they only check RSS feeds every 30 minutes, which quite frankly is slow. So head over to the ruTorrent settings button:

Click on that to get this menu, then select the "Feeds" sub menu from the left settings selection tab:

Yours will probably say 30 for the Update Interval, change that to 3. It means it will check your RSS feeds for new content every 3 minutes instead of 30. It is nice because lets say Adventure Time is on at 4PM, well when it ends it's 4:30PM, you might be waiting until 5PM for your ruTorrent to download it, missing out on that sweet sweet upload credit!

Let me know if I missed something!

-Tim