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I automated all my piracy. My NAS automatically downloads files as they are released by scene/p2p/pirate groups. Files are extracted (if compressed), renamed,

I automated all my piracy. My NAS automatically downloads files as they are released by scene/p2p/pirate groups. Files are extracted (if compressed), renamed, metadata is added, and published on some apps like plex and trakt. Movies, TV Shows, Music.

kaybe 8y ago
Hm, how about a show about a robot pirate ship (in space or today's world) and either some hackers in a basement or a 3-letter agency on the other end? (Maybe leave it ambiguous for a while. Or maybe they fight each other for control.) There probably are a number of political and economical reasons to disrupt shipping routes and terrorize billionaires on yachts, and plenty to stay unrecognized and uncaught meanwhile (use 'hacking' to disrupt the military that might come to check). Maybe at some point the robots gain their own sentience and decide to mutiny, maybe to become space pirates too.. The plot is pretty far-out, but I think I would watch it.
atmosx 8y ago
Sickbeard and couchPotato did that through GUI with a few clicks a few years ago (at least).
- FuckOffNeemo 8y ago
  Sonarr, Lidarr and Radarr do it much better these days :)
  - Fedoranimus 8y ago
    I concur, big fan of Radarr especially. ;-)
- arbitrage 8y ago
  Sickbeard was also a giant piece of junk that crashed all the time, and sucked all available system resources.
faitswulff 8y ago
In the same general category, I just wrote a script to download episodes of anime as they're released.
- sparkie 8y ago
  I wrote a YAML file for flexget. Much easier.
- watyousay 8y ago
  Would you be willing to go into some more detail on how it works? I use Sonarr and Hydra2 with a handful of private indexers and for most TV its the perfect solution.. but for anime it's the pits. For whatever reason the anime ripper scene seems to be actively resistant to this sort of automation.
  - faitswulff 8y ago
    My use case is really simple. I just use a script to fetch the latest free episode of My Hero Academia from CrunchyRoll with youtube-dl.
UncleEntity 8y ago
I got all fancy and hacked together a tinydb backend for transmission-daemon to automate pulling from an rss feed. Was using a simple text file at first (to avoid duplicates) but without proper internet service I needed a way to cache the shows until I could eventually download them. Now I just need to figure out an efficient way to download from them from my Hungarian vps since the cellphone internets are slowwww...
- namibj 8y ago
  ruTorrent and deluge have many fancy plugins, the latter is also afaik relatively easily scriptable in python. Transmission is one of the more minimal torrent clients out there, and even the old uTorrent supports RSS feeds. Only download linux ISOs though ;)
- bkor 8y ago
  > I got all fancy and hacked together a tinydb backend for transmission-daemon to automate pulling from an rss feed. Suggest looking into Flexget. It unfortunately has loads of dependencies, but on the upside it's super smart. E.g. prevent duplicate downloads, etc.
  - UncleEntity 8y ago
    Mostly I wanted to learn about databases and I was bored one day so... I kind of like transmission, had it doing its thing on my low-power NAS for a couple years with zero problems. The thing with duplicates was the rss feed sending ~7 days of shows and needing a way for my python script to tell if it had already seen an item or not so I was just dumping them into a log file and searching through it on the next run -- crazy inefficient but it did the job.
tbyehl 8y ago
I think this is the only thing I'm still using RSS for. Plex has become important enough for me and the people I share with that I moved it into colocation space.

kaybe 8y ago

Hm, how about a show about a robot pirate ship (in space or today's world) and either some hackers in a basement or a 3-letter agency on the other end? (Maybe leave it ambiguous for a while. Or maybe they fight each other for control.) There probably are a number of political and economical reasons to disrupt shipping routes and terrorize billionaires on yachts, and plenty to stay unrecognized and uncaught meanwhile (use 'hacking' to disrupt the military that might come to check). Maybe at some point the robots gain their own sentience and decide to mutiny, maybe to become space pirates too.. The plot is pretty far-out, but I think I would watch it.

atmosx 8y ago

Sickbeard and couchPotato did that through GUI with a few clicks a few years ago (at least).

FuckOffNeemo 8y ago
Sonarr, Lidarr and Radarr do it much better these days :)
- Fedoranimus 8y ago
  I concur, big fan of Radarr especially. ;-)
arbitrage 8y ago
Sickbeard was also a giant piece of junk that crashed all the time, and sucked all available system resources.

faitswulff 8y ago

In the same general category, I just wrote a script to download episodes of anime as they're released.

sparkie 8y ago
I wrote a YAML file for flexget. Much easier.
watyousay 8y ago
Would you be willing to go into some more detail on how it works? I use Sonarr and Hydra2 with a handful of private indexers and for most TV its the perfect solution.. but for anime it's the pits. For whatever reason the anime ripper scene seems to be actively resistant to this sort of automation.
- faitswulff 8y ago
  My use case is really simple. I just use a script to fetch the latest free episode of My Hero Academia from CrunchyRoll with youtube-dl.

UncleEntity 8y ago

I got all fancy and hacked together a tinydb backend for transmission-daemon to automate pulling from an rss feed. Was using a simple text file at first (to avoid duplicates) but without proper internet service I needed a way to cache the shows until I could eventually download them. Now I just need to figure out an efficient way to download from them from my Hungarian vps since the cellphone internets are slowwww...

namibj 8y ago
ruTorrent and deluge have many fancy plugins, the latter is also afaik relatively easily scriptable in python. Transmission is one of the more minimal torrent clients out there, and even the old uTorrent supports RSS feeds. Only download linux ISOs though ;)
bkor 8y ago
> I got all fancy and hacked together a tinydb backend for transmission-daemon to automate pulling from an rss feed. Suggest looking into Flexget. It unfortunately has loads of dependencies, but on the upside it's super smart. E.g. prevent duplicate downloads, etc.
- UncleEntity 8y ago
  Mostly I wanted to learn about databases and I was bored one day so... I kind of like transmission, had it doing its thing on my low-power NAS for a couple years with zero problems. The thing with duplicates was the rss feed sending ~7 days of shows and needing a way for my python script to tell if it had already seen an item or not so I was just dumping them into a log file and searching through it on the next run -- crazy inefficient but it did the job.

tbyehl 8y ago

I think this is the only thing I'm still using RSS for. Plex has become important enough for me and the people I share with that I moved it into colocation space.