Download Torrents Remotely With Pirate Bay’s Personal RSS
Written by Ernesto on March 20, 2009The Pirate Bay has rolled out a new feature which allows users to bookmark torrents and download them remotely, simply by adding their personal RSS feed URL to their BitTorrent client. Why wait, when you can start your torrent downloads on the go?
Downloading torrents remotely can come in quite handy when you’re at work, in a record store or at a friends place. With a new feature at the Pirate Bay, you can do this with relative ease.
Instead of downloading the torrent directly, users now have the option to add the torrent to their personal RSS feed. When added to your feed, the torrent will download automatically when your BitTorrent client is running at home. That is, if your favorite BitTorrent client has RSS support. Luckily, almost all popular clients do by now.
“We hope that it’s a small nice addition for people to remember to download stuff that you find on your cellphone, at your friends place or whatever, without the need to update your torrent client,” says the mysterious KingKong over at The Pirate Bay.
The new RSS feature is still in beta, and users first have to add torrents to their personal RSS feed before it’s created. At the time of writing the feeds are not updating correctly due to a caching issue, but we were told that this will be resolved soon. Pirate Bay users can find the link to their personal RSS feed in their account preference settings.
Please note that the Firefox browser may report the url as a possible threat, as we reported last week. We can assure you that it’s perfectly safe to use though. Mininova users who want to download torrents remotely can use Mininova’s bookmark feature, covered in our earlier article and isoHunt has a similar feature.
More great RSS tips and tricks can be found here. For the true torrent freaks out there, RSS really makes a difference.
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Im confused on how this is different than adding a RSS feed into Utorrent for say show Robot Chicken or whatever..
mabye I just dont have an understanding of RSS at all..
How lazy are we getting? ;)
Can’t wait Lost, 24 RSS here i come!
No support for RSS in Transmission for the Mac yet? Boo hiss.
Jizz, it’s not technically different. You have a personal RSS feed. Your uTorrent is suscribed to it. Now you go to a friend’s place and he tells you “hey, you must download this film”, then you borrow his laptop, loggin on TPB, add the film to your personal RSS, and when you arrive home it will be, hopefully, already downloaded in your BitTorrent client ;-)
@1 : you can add any torrent to your personal RSS feed, where a specific RSS feed will only have the specified items.
For example, I can add a movie, an album and some TV shows to my personal… which is easier if you do not want a feed for entire TV show series, etc.
@6 : you can easily do RSS in Transmission on the Mac. There is a FREE preference pane called Automatic that is a really amazing RSS extension for Transmission. It allows smart filtering and subscription to many RSS feeds. Lifesaver
Good! I’ve seen this on other sites, thanks god that this has been created on TPB too.
“How lazy are we getting?”
I would guess not any lazier, just doing more.
WOW – The Crap Bay gets a feature that almost all private sites and most public sites already have. Gasp – all you true “torrent freaks” must be AMAZED at the innovation and leetness of it all… who woulda thought.
Oh wait… newbs use The Crap Bay, all the people who truly know anything are already using private sites.
Oh well! God The Crap Bay is woeful! xD
The best RSS reader with a BT client, for power users who want fine grained control, is the FlexRSS plugin for Deluge IMO.
Deluge is a great open source Bt client available for Windows, Mac & Linux – more or less as fully featured as uTorrent “out-of-the-box” it has plugin capability as well as being less resource heavy (which is no mean feat considering it’s uTorrent we’re comparing it to). With no plugins it’s a utorrent killer basically – there’s very few plugins available at present though.
FlexRSS offers extremely fine-grained control and flexibility over RSS feeds that feed the client torrents, including changing and re-formatting the RSS string itself. I’ve not seen anything that approaches FlexRSS in this regard… new users need not apply though.
The only downside is a small number of privates haven’t added Deluge to the allowed client list, however the number is fairly small.
It’s the long awaited response to MiniNova’s personal feeds. If you’re looking for something that isn’t bound to a single site (TPB/MiniNova), try out http://feedmytorrents.com
Private tackers and their members usually don’t want everybody blabbing their business to the public (i.e.RIAA). God forbid a noob finds out and worms his way into your elite life…dick.
That’s a pity for FeedMyTorrents’ crew. Although they still have their superb Combined Feed feature next to the standard RSS based TV-show feeds.
Nice addition of TPB though.
@ nine
Yes most people new to torrenting use TPB, Its a good site for tv and Programs if you don’t have membership to EZTV or torrent-leech or other more “qualified” sites .
But without Tpb or as you call it “the Crap bay” all those “noobs”
Would be looking for a new place to d/l .
Oh Sh*t how are all those smaller sites gonna handle this kinda traffic?
Very nice idea. I guess I’ll have to wait for the “fix” though first before I can even use it.
For now, I get server error 404 Not Found when trying to access my feed.
Seedit.org got much better RSS, I promise ;)
TPB crew is to busy ULin’ dupes and jerk each other of, so nothing get done. As a uploader you must kiss their asses to get some service.
The Pirate Bay crew are cunts, and it is a pleasure to UL on other sites where you get help when it is needed
@18 X-Pirate
I think you need to watch what you say. How many small torrent sites fall when first contacted by the [RI]|[MP]AA? Most. The Pirate Bay is the only site that has stood up, and has made a mark on BiTorrent that shall not fade away. There will always be more fake / bad torrents on TPB, look how many uploaders it actually has. I would love to see the ratio of good:bad torrents on TPB, and the same ratio on another private site. I can bet it will be close.
As for service… keep in mind the don’t just run TPB. They have other sites as well, such as SlopsBox, BayWords, and BayImg. Figure that, and just coming off a court case, and I think we can take the amount of service with a grain of salt.
@13 jakebrakes
You are correct, most private sites like to keep ‘private’. They don’t wish to have the bigger traffic, they don’t want the attention. If you talk to the admins of a few smaller bittorrent trackers you will learn that they praise the guys at TPB for taking most of the heat, and standing up for them. I’m happy atleast soem of the commenters have their heads on straight.
All those who criticize TPB are either ignorant or s t u p i d.
Too bad the Firefox thingy is still going on :( everytime I visit a TPB userpage I get a warning
If you computer is turned on at home anyway (with your bittorrent client running), cant you just use remote desktop and download the torrents at home?
Okey, the RSS-feeds *should* work correctly now!
@Kosp: Thanks for clarifying that. Although I can use utorrent’s webui to remotely load anything. Still, if you don’t want to mess with WebUI and you use PirateBay as your primary source (I use BTJunkie) then I can see how this would be useful.
Sweet, now i feel like a lazy pirate ^.^
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[BEGIN RANT]
I really don’t understand why there’s all this hate towards thepiratebay in favour of these private trackers. Calling its users “n00bs” seems very immature as well. Also someone mentioned how private trackers “take care of their uploaders”? What does that supposed to mean anyway? I am a member of a few private sites and there’s no “special treatment” involved in uploading a torrent (just a slew of rules to follow).
At least with thepiratebay:
1. You don’t have to scrounge about for someone willing to lend you an invite to it or be lucky enough to be on there when invites do open up to the public.
2. You don’t have to worry about ratio rules which can be way too strict (and sites that require you to also babysit the people you invite (or otherwise YOU get punished for their low ratios) is just plain stupid and unfair). Understandable that they do not want free leechers on there degrading other people’s download speeds but if you ARE the free leeching type and do not wish to be criticized and kicked out of the site then thepiratebay is for you (I’m not that type though as I always seed back at least 1:1 but I do still use thepiratebay nevertheless).
3. There is MUCH more content on thepiratbay simply because everyone can upload. Yeah that also means more fakes/dupes/viruses but that’s only a result of it being not feasible to moderate every single torrent that’s uploaded. If you download from trusted or VIP sources, use your common common sense (e.g. there is NO WAY a non-screener Axxo DVDrip could exist for a movie still in theatres), and/or read the comments first from those who have already downloaded it (if any), then you could easily be able to avoid unwanted content.
The only downside as I have mentioned before is that your downloads speeds will probably not be that great due to the uncontrollable hit and run and low upload caps on leechers (that and maybe lack of rewards for uploading a lot but that’s a small issue). This is not thepiratbay’s fault though so I wish people would stop blaming them. This just comes from either idiots who don’t want to share (and the only thing settings these private trackers apart is that “idiots” are not tolerated and get banned quickly) or people using ISPs that have horrid upload rates but somewhat decent download bandwidth (this group would have to work extra hard to remain on privite sites). However, content wise, whenever a new movie/video game comes out, I always see it appear on thepiratebay very quickly (as in before or on the release date) so if it appearing on your private tracker first, it’s certainly not THAT noticable.
[END OF RANT]
The reason you get your releases so quick is because people like me get them on good private trackers and uploads them on TPB. There is a big difference in quality between the different ratio places, some are slower than TPB and some are faster.
More than 90% of film and TV comes from the privat places to TPB, it’s not the privates that hate TPB, it’s the ‘Scene’ that hates TPB.
TPB could be a very nice place, the people that started it seems to be 100% nice. It’s the hangarounds, the wannabees, that think they are all that special.
It’s not a community if you don’t get help when you need it.
There is nicer places to upload, and I’m not talking about private places.
When I upload on a private tracker my torrents get snatched by hundreds, or a few thousands. For me it’s a nice feeling to know my torrents have been snatched by millions when I ul on the open ones.
Wish TPB crew could get their heads out of their arses and try to help those that needs help and service so they stay on the site instead of going to a friendlier place
@jake
It’s not so that TPB and Mininova are making money on the publicity which they get here, but TF makes money on giving them publicity.
Don’t be naive.
Anyone else STILL getting the 404 Not Found error for their personal torrent. FYI, I’m clicking the link on my profile to check it.
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@Smithme2008
I’m still getting a 404 on my torrent feed as well. I hope they fix it soon.
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