I saw the announcement on the Transmission website of the release of transmission 1.80 and I got really excited about some of the features such as tracker-less torrents and magnet links.  I was running 1.51 which is what’s in the Ubuntu Jaunty repos.  Unfortunately I can’t upgrade my SheevaPlug to any Ubuntu distro beyond 9.04 because there is some funny business on how they’re compiling the arm packages for future releases. Eventually I’ll switch over to Debian but I really don’t feel like mucking around with the serial console on my plug.

I really like Transmission-CLI for torrents, however it is lacking many features I used with uTorrent. One of them is downloading torrents automatically from an RSS feed. My reason for this is that I love Top Gear. But I don’t have BBC America (or a TV) so my only alternative is downloading it. But I don’t want to have to manually find the latest episode and then wait for it to download. This is a short how-to to get a simple RSS system set up using transmission-cli.

Prerequisites:

• transmission-cli set up and running on your computer (on debian systems it’s as simple as “apt-get install transmission-cli”)

I’m posting this mainly because I had a really hard time finding the solution. Hopefully someone in the same boat can find this solution helpful.

I usually use uTorrent to create torrents, however since I switched to my sheevaplug and installed transmission I’ve had to learn how to manage my torrents with a very limited cli. I did learn how to create a torrent: