[script] Transmission RSS torrent downloader (linux)

[soddengecko]

Hi all

I am not sure this is best place to put this but I thought I would help out anyone using transmission on a headless server.

I am full set up with filebot using the amc.groovy script to manage/move/rename my downloads, but the major problem I had was that Transmission has no RSS features.

I tried https://code.google.com/p/mytv/ and a few others but they were not suitable. MyTV failed to grab torrent files, and when it did it would repeatedly add torrents that had already been downloaded. Flexget was too much for my needs also so I wrote my own script.

This script checks your torrent feed (currently only tested with tvtorrents.com) and adds all torrents to Transmission via the Transmission RPC. A history file is then created to prevent torrents being re-added to Transmission

I have tested this script over the last few days and it works very well. Obviously it is the first version and feedback is greatly appreciated. You can grab the script here https://github.com/soddengecko/tranmission_rss.py