Automatically download torrents

We've featured all sorts of automatic downloaders that grab TV shows after they air and movies as soon as they're released , but you don't have to stop there. You can schedule music, comic books, video games, and practically anything else as a download with minimal effort. In this post, we'll look at how to set up existing scripts to acquire all kinds of media and use a tool called FlexGet to handle the rest. All the tools in this guide work with BitTorrent, which you should set up securely before you do anything else.

Your computer can act like an internet personal video recorder, downloading TV episodes as soon as they air, thanks to the assistance of an app called Sick Beard. You simply install it, tell it the shows you want to track, how you want to download those shows via either BitTorrent or Usenet , and let it do the rest. Follow these steps to install it:. Download the latest versions of Git and Cheetah. Don't worry that Cheetah's old. I've been using the same version since Snow Leopard.

It works great on Lion and Mountain Lion. Install Git via the included installer. Your final chommand should look something like.

Cheetah will install in about a minute's time. When Sick Beard completes the installation, run it by entering this command in your terminal window:. Support WizCase to help us guarantee honest and unbiased advice.

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In Utorrent options,preferences,directories, tick the box next to "automatically load torrents from" then click the box to the right with the 3 dots in it and browse to your download folder which you familiarised yourself with earlier. I hope this helps more plebs like me who go round in circles getting more and more frustrated. Archived This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies. Go to topic listing.

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We're going to provide you with the information necessary to set up and use the described software, but your ethical and legal decisions will be left up to you. With all of that out of the way, you need to choose what you want to use.

First we're going to take a look at setting up a PVR using BitTorrent and then we're going to look at doing the same thing with Usenet.

If you prefer Usenet to BitTorrent, jump down to the Usenet section below. Setting up a PVR with BitTorrent is incredibly simple, primarily because there are RSS feeds online that update with new episodes for a given show so you can easily obtain torrent files for the latest episodes. While many BitTorrent clients have RSS feed support, we're going to look at using separate applications that intelligently read these feeds to make the downloading process even easier.

If you're running Windows or Linux, you can use a neat little application called TED to schedule your show downloads. You can also use TED on a Mac, so you can use these instructions to set up TED on your Mac as well although we're going to look at a different application for Mac in just a bit.

First, download and install TED. Once you're all set, open it up and you should see a screen similar to the one pictured on the left. To get started, cick the "Add Show" button up top and you'll be presented with a new panel containing a large list of shows. Find the one you want by browsing or search, then click on it. You'll be given information about the show as well as a few options. Select which episode you want to start with, whether or not you want to watch it in HD, and click the "Add" button.

Once you do that, just repeat for all the shows you want to add and wait until they download. TED will let you know when the next air date is for each episode and will check for new episodes every 60 minutes which you can change in TED's settings. When TED finds a new episode, it will download a torrent file to your computer and open it in your default BitTorrent client. That's it, you're all set! For that reason, we're going to look at TVShows as it's Mac-only and very simple to use.

If you'd like the additional features that TED provides, check out the Windows section above. The instructions will work just the same for Mac. To get started, first download TVShows and open it. If you have yet to install one, it will recommend Transmission and help you download it.