Subscribe to TV Shows with Torrent Episode Downloader

Written by Smaran on February 15, 2007 

Torrent Episode Downloader, or Ted, is a cross-platform Java application that lets you easily subscribe to TV shows. It gives you a list of shows that are currently popular on BitTorrent networks, and automatically downloads the latest episodes of the shows you choose.

Torrent Episode DownloaderTorrent Episode Downloader simplifies the process of locating and downloading torrents of your favourite TV shows to a great extent. All you have to do is launch the application and hit the “New show” button. Once you choose which show you want to subscribe to, Ted will go out and grab the torrents of the latest episodes and drop them in a folder of your choice. I have it set to download the torrents to my Desktop.

Once a torrent is downloaded, Ted will automatically launch it in your default BitTorrent client, in my case, Transmission. If your BitTorrent client has the option to delete the original torrent once it has been imported, the whole process can be made very clean, with no traces or files left behind.

The simplicity of Ted is reminiscent of LimeWire, the P2P application that made downloading mp3s easier than surfing the web. The only problem is that you need to have a BitTorrent client installed. I’m guessing that the Opera browser with its built-in BitTorrent functionality would do. Ubuntu users might have it the best, since the OS comes with a version of the mainline client pre-installed.

Ted is not yet perfect, and still needs some work. Something funny I noticed was that while setting it up, it asked me whether I wanted it to start minimised in the system tray. Mac OS X doesn’t have a system tray! It’s quite obvious that Ted was originally written for Windows.

Torrent Episode Downloader (Ted) is completely free and open source, and can be downloaded from the official site.

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10 Responses (Add yours or TrackBack)

1 Feb 15, 2007 at 18:18 by Jasper van Weerd

Any experiences with this program anyone?

2 Feb 15, 2007 at 18:44 by Lloyd

This sounds similair to the rss-feed function that both azureus and utorrent have (with which one does not need third party software). Of course this app does enable you to keep using your preferred client if it isn’t one of those.

3 Feb 15, 2007 at 21:40 by Nathan

I tried it out. I don’t use it anymore, if that helps.

4 Feb 15, 2007 at 21:40 by Nathan

I tried it out. I don’t use it anymore, if that helps.

The thing is, you’ll usally end up going to the torrent websites to download some rare shows and stuff like that anyways, so..

5 Feb 16, 2007 at 07:45 by F_b_o

That things rubbish, it’l download torrents to fake files and its really slow.

6 Feb 16, 2007 at 08:38 by Johan

As said above, use ordinary RSS instead

7 Feb 18, 2007 at 11:30 by Mayur

Check out tvtonic.com. TVTonic allows you to subscribe to most video podcasts on the web. Download RSS 2.0 video enclosures in the background.

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