DIY RSS Bit Torrent!!!

I’m sure you know by now that Bit Torrent is the most effective way to download music, movies, and television shows (legal ones of course...) and I’m sure you also know that RSS (really simple syndication) is the best way to keep up with your favorite websites and news without actually visiting the full websites themselves.

Let’s learn how to combine these two concepts into a cool little mash-up! First you’ll need to download two applications: NetNewsWire and Transmission (both free! :)).

Now that you have the two essential components needed to create the best ‘automatic’ RSS downloader let’s start the configuration!

Step One: Open up Transmission and go to the Preferences window and the ‘Transfers’ tab.

Now copy my settings into your prefs window and make sure to check the ‘Auto Add’ box at the bottom and select a folder where you want Transmission to always watch for new torrent files.

Step Two: Navigate on over to tvrss.net and find an rss feed that fits your liking and copy the url. (example, here’s an rss feed for one of my favorite shows: right-click on Dexter and copy link)

Step Three: Open up NetNewsWire and click into the pref pane. / ‘Downloading’ tab / ‘Downloads Folder’ tab

Now, choose the folder you made before to download your files to.

Step Four: Now just hit the subscribe button on the top left and paste in the RSS url! Then select an episode and hit the download button at the bottom left of the window and it will download the torrent file to the folder Transmission is watching which will cause Transmission to start downloading the episode to your desktop. Ta-daaaa!