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Download Torrents Remotely with Mininova Bookmarks

Mininova has just launched their new bookmarking feature for registered users. One of the benefits of your mininova bookmarks page is that generates a personalized RSS feed which allows you to automatically add bookmarked torrents to your BitTorrent client.

mininovaImporting torrents via RSS can be very useful if you’re at work, school, or at a friends place. With this new feature from mininova you only have to bookmark the torrent, and it will start downloading automatically when your BitTorrent client is running at home.

Here is how it works. First of all, you’ll have to be a registered user at Mininova to use the bookmarking feature. Then, when you come across a torrent you would like to download, simply click on the “Add to bookmarks” button. The torrent will then be added to your personal bookmarks page, which has its own RSS feed.

mininova bookmarks

Next, you will have to add your personal bookmarks feed to your favorite BitTorrent client and then you’re all set. In addition you can customize the process a bit more, depending on the client you use. Some clients, for example, let you choose whether to download the torrent immediately, or start it later manually.

Mininova is not the first BitTorrent site to add bookmarking capabilities. Torrentz.com has had this feature for quite some time now. However, Mininova is the first site to combine it with an RSS feed that has BitTorrent enclosures, which makes it compatible with BitTorrent clients that support RSS downloading.

Mininova has covered their new bookmark feature, with some additional details, in their latest blog post. For those who are interested, we have some more RSS tutorials over here.

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  • http://www.eZee.se www.eZee.se

    Making it easier and easier… good!
    More people will start usign services like this… not matter how much of corruption goes into stopping it (reference: The cop in TPB case going scot free)

  • Mr. Dr. PhD

    NICE!

  • remisser

    Let’s hope every torrent site follows suit.

  • Izkata

    Awww…

    I’m keeping my old setup: Azureus’s auto-import from a folder combined with Pidgin’s Autoaccept on receiving files from myself over AIM. Which is doable with Pidgin Portable.

    Far more impressive sounding. =^_^=

  • Anonymous

    been able to grab stuff via rss from mininova for well over a year now, instructions for utorrent

    step 1. add this to your feeds list:-
    Mininova|http://www.mininova.org/rss.xml?direct

    step 2. create a favorite, for example star*wars*dvdrip*

    step 3 click on releases tab highlight the “mininova” and click on the update now button

    And hey presto automatic downloads of torrent files from mininova.

  • imoneoftheoceanicsix

    @5: Yeah, that’s kinda not the idea. It’s so you have an RSS feed for items you control remotely.

    So you setup the RSS feed ahead of time, and can control *exactly* what is added to it.

  • tm

    Mininova isn’t the first site to have a bookmarks RSS feed. There’s a few private sites that already offer this.

  • hehe

    /me wants per-user RSS feeeds, like the ones on demonoid :)

  • ruinyourlife

    LOL every single one of the private sites I use has this feature.

    Fuck off public users, if you use mininova, your a homo.

  • Anonymous

    waffles has this feature :)

  • Anonymous

    First off I wouldn’t know how to use a private site or where to find one and nor do I know of any valid reason to use them over public sites. 9 is a twerp.

    Also I don’t see why registration should be required in order to use a torrent feature. What are they wanting user info for? How will they use it, and would it put users at risk from anti-p2p’ers or at least spammers and scam artists?

  • Anonymous

    @6 what happened to the others then?

  • SUMO

    SUMOTorrent.com has had the feature for years before!

  • Izkata

    @11: Registration is needed for Mininova’s per-user feed so that you can’t arbitrarily change someone else’s personalized feed. Registration is used on private torrent sites and trackers to keep leechers and other un-want-ables out.

  • A Horrible Man

    anyone know any decent private sites that are open for registartion?? i much prefer private but have been struggling to find a good1 for ages. I used to use a site called janiatorworld but that got taken down after the oink raid last year. Any invitations would be much appreciated…ive bin itching to get into demonoid for wot seems like years

  • Souless

    @15. Demonoid is open for registrations right now. Also use this: http://www.btracs.com/index.htm

  • gz

    utorrent webui ftw

  • A Horrible Man

    @16..AHorribleMan is now at long last a member of demonoid!!!

    Many Many Thanks 4 the heads up souless…uve made my day!!!

  • Dude

    Mininova is good for spreading trojans. ;)

  • Hmmm

    Why would you be looking at torrents while at school or work???

    Without knowing what the backend is setup like it sounds like it could be selfincriminating.

  • anon

    Why is this better than uTorrent or Azureus’s WebUI?

  • Jammy Jones

    No doubt about it. If you are going to use BT you need to mask your REAL IP address to the servers. I prefer services like Ultimate ANonymity (www.ultimate-anonymity.com ) that make it real easy.

    JT

  • James

    I made a tutorial on how to set up autodownload using mininova with ubuntu and ktorrent.

    http://sproif.com/2008/07/09/mininovaorg-rssautodownload-and-ktorrent-on-ubuntu-ultimate-torrent-setup/

  • Billco

    Me, I’m still waiting for a Firefox addon that bounces torrents to a TorrentFlux server – not just the URL, but actually downloads the torrent to your PC, re-uploads it to your server and launches it… for private trackers!

  • i lasered my pubes

    Get a mininova account, and be higher up the list when they all get sued,

    account, no thanks

    http://ladysmooth.com

  • Huring

    Works nicely, but the pubDate in the RSS feed is the same as when the torrent was published. Not good. Should be date of adding as bookmark.

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