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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 10:31AM I have to thank the geeks over at Geek Troika and their guest Josh Haley (of ffundercats fame) for their mention of myself and my blog.
Check out episode 22: "Boom Tish" via their blog or iTunes.
I have since added an avatar to my friendfeed account. :-)
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Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 5:45AM The MSP International Film Festival starts today! Running April 16 - 30th. Films from around the world including a number of Minnesota made films. I'll be seeing a few films this weekend and some scattered throughout the week. Check out some of the buzz and find the parties on http://www.mspfilmfest.org/MMIX/, twitter. Google News.
Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 5:24AM UPDATED** Due to legal issues FeedMyTorrents is no longer an active project. Check out my post on ShowRSS to find a better alternative. Looking for a place to get RSS Feeds for your Torrenting needs Check out http://feedmytorrents.com/. You can create custom feeds or use the existing clean feeds. Alternatively RSS torrent feeds can be found from most of the trackers. Including http://www.mininova.org/
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interesting, web apps Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 5:08AM
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I had some interesting requirements for my Bittorrent needs. First I wanted to move everything to my linux mediaserver/fileserver. So I needed a way to work with bittorrent files without traditional access to the machine. eg. No screen or windowing system. This led me to TorrentFlux-b4rt, which is a php based web interface to Transmission client meant to be run on apache servers. Second I wanted to ability to download torrents automatically from RSS sources using scripting. This is where the original TorrentFlux had failed me and I went searching. The following is a gathering of scripts I have found and tested. Most scripts require that you have access to Cron scheduling and the python scripting language. And, of course, a bittorrent client that scans a directory looking for torrent files. I am using these scripts in conjunction with rTorrent (a commandline bittorrent client) as well as TorrentFlux-b4rt on various servers.
FlexGet is a program aimed to automate downloading content (torrents, podcasts, etc.) from various sources like RSS-feeds, html-pages, various sites and more. It's most often used to download torrent-files from RSS-feeds and works very well in that environment, but there are additional modules for other kind of situations as well. FlexGet is extremely useful in conjunction with applications and clients which have watch directory support. - http://flexget.com/
I've been using flexget over the last few weeks and it is my top pick for script to use.
rsstorrent is a very simple RSS torrent downloading script. It does as advertised and is still being developed. Though it lacks the nice documentation of FlexGet.
This is the script that I had been using for about a year to automate the torrent downloading. It scans the tvrss.net website using an easy to understand configuration file. It worked like a charm for me but I found a new charm with more sparkle.
This is a different way to download torrent episodes. This is not a script. It is a fully functional cross-platform program dedicated RSS Torrents. It is way to heavy for my use. But interesting none the less.
ted can find episodes of any TV show you like to watch. Just add your favorite shows to ted and he will search for the newest episodes and downloads them for you. ted uses bittorrent and RSS technology to get you the newest episodes as fast as possible! http://www.ted.nu/
bittorrent, linux, rss in Interesting Friday, March 27, 2009 at 10:44AM What is Torrentflux-b4rt you say? Torrentflux-b4rt is a sophisticated web-based PHP BitTorrent client based off the original Torrentflux. It allows you to use an old linux server as your happily obedient bittorrent client , while you gallivant around town feeding it torrents. Its greatest feature is freeing you from being constantly connected to the internet while downloading.
This guide is intended to be followed by a linux user confident with the command line and in full control of a server they wish to employ the use of TorrentFlux with. Good luck.
I am going to describe how to setup a basic server with these sources:
A cleaver guide has already been written Installing LAMP On Ubuntu For Newbies.
This gives you a web interface into the MySql server. Greatly simplifies life with MySql.
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
sudo apt-get install zip unzip unrar php5-cli php5-gd perl python libxml-dom-perl libxml-simple-perl libthreads-shared-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libhtml-parser-perl transmission-cliThese are what I found missing from my install. You may come up with some missing packages 'apt-get' to install packages and google to find the package names.
From your home directory:
cd ~ wget http://prdownload.berlios.de/tf-b4rt/torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta2.tar.bz2 tar xjvf torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta2.tar.bz2
cd ~/torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta2/clients wget http://download.m0k.org/transmission/files/transmission-1.06.tar.bz2 tar jxvf transmission-1.06.tar.bz2 tar jxvf transmission-1.06.tar.bz2 tar jxvf Transmission-1.06_tfCLI-svn3356.tar.bz2 cp Transmission-1.06_tfCLI-svn3356/cli/transmissioncli.c transmission-1.06/cli/transmissioncli.cThis overwrites the original source code for the Transmission-cli a new version extended for the Torrentflux-b4rt interface.
./configure make make installThis should install the transmission-cli binary in /usr/local/bin/transmission-cli
cp ~/torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta2/html/ /var/www/torrentflux -R
Log into your phpmyadmin interface using your MySQL root user/password by going to:
http://yourserverip/phpmyadmin
Steps to follow from the phpmyadmin frontpage:
Point your browser to:
http://yourserverip/torrentflux/setup.phpFollow the directions onscreen to finish the setup. Give it your MySQL username, password, and database name. It should solve the rest.
In case you get stuck or would like to more information check out these pages:
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TorrentFlux-b4rt has not been in development since March 2008 and the original TorrentFlux has not been in development since June 2008. There are known problems getting this installed under newer ubuntu installations mostly relating to new versions of PHP.
I have moved my seedbox to a rtorrent based install with showRSS for automatic RSS downloads of TV shows. This does not give a nice web interface but the command line interface works nice for my needs.
TransmissionBT seems like a great alternative. It includes a graphical, web, and command line interface. Also it has many plugins available including one for RSS.
bittorrent, linux, sysadmin 