How to make a custom TV-torrent feed
tvRSS just released some extra features that makes it easier to find the latest episodes of your favorite TV-show. They optimized their search options, and support “search based rss feeds”. This makes it easy for anyone to create a personalized TV-torrent feed. This means you can have all your favorite TV-torrents in one feed.
So let’s say we want a feed for the latest 24, Lost and Prison Break episodes.
(Note that downloading TV-shows can be illegal in some countries. If so, consider moving to another country or collect the torrents just for fun)
Step 1.
Go to the shows listing on RSStv.net. You’ll see a list of all the available shows. Browse through the list and click on your favorite TV-show.
Step 2.
You’ll now see a listing of the latest episodes. Take the Prison Break list for example. Notice that there are double postings in the list. This is because there are more distribution/release groups releasing the same episode in different qualities.
Use the search field on the top of the page to narrow down the results untill only see one release per episode. For example, select EZTV as the distribution group and LOL as the release group. Hit “search” and you will see that you narrowed the search results down to one release per episode.
Perfect.
Step 3.
Now we want a rss feed for these customized results. All you have to do is Click on the “Search-based RSS Feed” link
Now you have your custom TV-torrent rss feed.
Step 4.
If you have more that one favorite TV-show you have to merge those custom feeds into one. So repeat step 1, 2 and 3 for all your favorite show and save the links to the custom feeds somewhere (copy / paste, I wouldn’t advise to write them down, ;) )
If you have all the feeds you need, go to Feedjumbler, or another feed-merge service and merge your feeds into one.
Step 5.
Congrats, you’re done. Now all you have to copy the feed in your favorite rss reader.
Check out the 24 & Prison Break example (available feeds or html)
You can auto download the torrents using torrent clients like Azureus or uTorrent. Another option is to use thunderbird, or other email apps that support rss feeds to receive the latest torrents. Or just import the feeds into bloglines, my yahoo, newsgator, google desktop, windows live, netvibes… you’ll get it…
Have fun.
