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This application fetches torrent files of your favourite TV shows from your trackers of choice. Use cron for scheduling and torrent application with watchdir support.

tvfetch came to life after FlexGet running on RaspberryPi proved to be too slow to be useable.

• libcurl
• libxml2
• libpcre

make

Compiled binary will appear in bin directory.

Sample session.xml is provided in sample directory.

• <target> - where to download torrent files (torrent client's watchdir)
• <feeds>
  • <feed>
    • <name> - name of tracker, used only in log messages
    • <url> - URL to torrent tracker's RSS feed
    • <delay> - you can prioritize trackers by giving them delay (in seconds), larger delay - lower priority (set to 0 for instant download)
• <shows>
  • <show>
    • <regex> - PCRE of the show title to fetch
      • first group must match season number
      • second group must match episode number
      • no more groups are allowed
    • <season> - season number of the last downloaded episode (0 for new show)
    • <episode> - episode number of the last downloaded episode (0 for new season)
    • <seen> - timestamp of when the episode was first seen in any of the feeds, used by delay system (set to 0 for new entry)

./tvfetch /path/to/session.xml

Sample cron job:
*/15 * * * * /path/to/tvfetch /path/to/session.xml >> /path/to/fetch.log 2>> /path/to/error.log
Runs every 15 minutes forwarding output to a dedicated log files.