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Nov

automated rss torrent downloads with a ReadyNAS

Or any linux, for that matter.

I’ve owned a ReadyNAS NV for quite a while now, I’ve always thought it was a great product.

After they allowed ssh access to the box (with raidiator 4.0) they made it even better. Low power consumption, debian linux, and a metric ton of diskspace make it a really hackable device.

It has a bittorrent client addon available, the problem is that it is only accessible via an http interface, and cannot import torrents automagically from a specified location like a drop-in folder or an rss feed, unlike some of my favorite torrent clients.

I did a bit of reading and put together a few pieces of script-fu that already existed on the internet. Continue reading ‘automated rss torrent downloads with a ReadyNAS’