Getting Transmission to work with feeds
I love Transmission. It is fast and it’s minimal approach doesn’t get in my way. But one feature that it’s missing is the ability to be able to use rss-feeds for your daily portion of TV-Shows linux distributions. And that’s where Automatic comes into play: Automatic is basically a tool that downloads enclosures from feeds with the ability to filter them for certain items and to optionally open them.
So if you
- head over to your favoutite content distributor,
- grab the feed that contains the items you want,
- paste it into Automatic,
- set a filter to grab your desired items (consult the incuded “Quick Start Guide” for help on the regular expressions) and
- either set Automatic to “Open after downloading” or keep Transmission running while i watches the download folder
you’re good to go.