I am hoping Mac users will find this useful, but I am also hoping somebody will extend this and make it better for all the community. The RSS filtering utilities that Automator provides are excellent and graphically intuitive, and I am sure the output can be piped out to the shell/perl/python/ruby/etc to match regular expressions. An apt-cache search transmission showed me these packages: transmission - lightweight BitTorrent client transmission-common - lightweight BitTorrent client (common files) transmission-cli - lightweight BitTorrent client (command line. I also used some custom automator actions included in the download. I performed a minimal Ubuntu 18.10 installation, and am now looking to install Transmission via Terminal. I used the Automator Loop Utility (set at 600 seconds/10 minutes) to convert the application to a recurring workflow that runs every X minutes.
Transmission doesn't support proxies, but libcurl itself honors a handful of environment variables to customize its proxy behavior.
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I also haven't got the hang on how to make it skip torrents already downloaded and run continuously looping without an external utility. Citation from transmission wiki page: Transmission uses the libcurl library for http- and https-based tracker announces and scrapes. I am trying to figure out the easiest way to setup an automatic download from an rss feed for a particular uploader on a torrent site.(this is not a tv show or movie, it is a 2 types of races that are uploaded. I haven't got the hang on how to use Automator variables correctly (to display the name of the torrent in a confirmation dialog). Hi Everyone, I was hoping someone might be able to help me out. However, my workflow is not perfect, it is a barely working solution. The workflow is Leopard only because of the RSS features are exclusive to Leopard. From there Transmission, or any other torrent client can pick them up and start downloading. I decided to create an Automator script (Leopard-only) that downloads torrents from RSS feeds to a folder. Since Transmission.app (the only decent Cocoa mac client that is allowed on many trackers) will not integrate RSS support for a long time (against philosophy).
Most UNIX utilities are complicated command line that don't fit well with the OS X experience. I wanted a good, easy to use graphical solution to download torrents from RSS feeds for Mac OS X.