Comments on: Subscribe to TV Shows Using BitTorrent on OSX

By: Happy birthday | lipflip.org

Happy birthday | lipflip.org — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:02:09 +0000

[...] A tutorial about automating downloading current television shows via BitTorrent with pytvshows. It was featured on torrentfreak.com. [...]

By: hippy

hippy — Sun, 18 May 2008 15:12:30 +0000

hi,
will this script grab ‘PROPER’ releases of episodes that it has already seen?
like, when a broken version of a new episode is first uploaded, tvshows (old version) will download it, then when the PROPER is released, tvshows ignores it because it’s already seen that episode number. will this script grab the PROPER, or can it be tweaked to do so?
cheers

By: ason

ason — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:45:05 +0000

yeah thts correct! saw it here!
http://pluking.blogspot.com

By: enc

enc — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:26:10 +0000

Cramdom you’re an idiot.

By: enc

enc — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:25:24 +0000

This is dumb. Use tvrss and Miro, it works just fine, and you may even start downloading the episode before it airs in your area. Who want’s to mess around with scripts to perform a task like this?

By: TorrentFreak | lipflip.org

TorrentFreak | lipflip.org — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:31:11 +0000

[...] Apr 2008 24 TorrentFreak.com has featured my recent article about BitTorrent based TV show subscription using [...]

By: Zwartbaard

Zwartbaard — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:13:00 +0000

@12; Never heard anyone talking so much trash. First of all, Darwin, the gui of MacOSX, is not a shitty X.org skin, like KDE. Second, MacOSX is NOT based on Linux, but on FreeBSD. *BSD rocks! Third, MacOSX is not binary compatible with Linux!

By: Crandom

Crandom — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:43:55 +0000

Fro mwhat I can see from here, osx is just linux that you pay to have in a shiny skin.

http://www.ubuntu.com/

By: nanda

nanda — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:11:15 +0000

Miro works great for me, 1.2 has added some more control over torrent downloads too.

By: medick

medick — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:51:37 +0000

Or ÂµTorrent under Wine. Use RSS feed for your favorite TV shows on a public tracker. All these development efforts are great. Unfortunately, until Bittorrent becomes a widely accepted protocol with money to drive development, its going to continue to be half-assed written apps. Its still got a lot of stigma attached to it, its still very nerdy, and you only have a handful of well written Bittorrent clients.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:24:06 +0000

I just use Azureus and the RSS plugin with tvrss.net…

By: phatmonkey

phatmonkey — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:22:43 +0000

If you know how to use subversion, I strongly suggest you try that version. It’s far more reliable and mature. I was about to make a 0.3 release in fact! You might want to update this tutorial if I do, the configuration system has changed somewhat.

Glad to see my script is useful anyway!

By: kevin

kevin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:08:09 +0000

Try Newsfire+Transmission as the non-scripting solution for those afraid of the terminal. Subscribe to TV shows by getting the RSS feeds from TVrss.net, add the feeds in Newsfire and pick the folder the torrent files download to and have Transmission auto-download from any torrents dropped in that folder. Watch in Front Row without ever using a cable box, an antennae or visiting a torrent site.

By: vala

vala — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:45:02 +0000

I don’t know about TED, but pyTVshows works great in linux too following roughly the same directions (can’t remember exactly how I set it up as its been a few months).

What I’m having trouble with is something to actually download the torrents. I’m not interested in running a GUI app periodically to download things. I want some CLI client to run from crontab. I’d also like something to seed the torrent. So far ctorrent is the only thing have found, but it’s no longer in development and crashes as often as not.

By: Lipflip

Lipflip — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:16:12 +0000

Yeah. TVShows was awesome. And I would immediatly switch back to it if a new version is released.

But in the meantime I need another tool for this and even though you have to fiddle around with the command line, pytvshows works great.

By: pax

pax — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:02:13 +0000

It’s really about time, that TVShows 1.0 is released or Transmission includes the same feature ÂµTorrent has.

Even though I have more than basic scripting skills, I’d still prefer a simple interface, like TVShows has.
It’s just one reason, why I switched to Mac in the first place :D

Scripting is too much Linux for me. I just want to stay away from it :D

By: ric

ric — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:35:54 +0000

TVshows still working great for me in Leopard.

By: Lipflip

Lipflip — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:29:40 +0000

Not for me and a lot of my colleagues.

After the Leopard update it didn’t download a single new episode. Even removing and reinstalling didn’t work.
Additionally it has thrown away my list of shows I had subscribed.

Are you using Tiger?

By: JElly

JElly — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:25:10 +0000

TVshows is still working…i use it every day and daily show and law and order came down through it yesterday