Maybe you're a guy a bit like me -- who watch a lot of series -- so I guess you already know that downloading the latest episodes of all your favorites TV Shows is absolutely PAINFUL. I mean it, really.
Each episode is released always the same day each week ; but obviously it's hard to remember the release day of all your shows (by the way, sometimes they make a little break, so you won't have episode during 2/3 months).
Thus, TVShow Downloader is a set of basic scripts (crontab + python script + bash script) designed to simplify my whole existence on this earth: I haven't to think about downloading my shows anymore \o/.
The idea behind this "project" is very, very, (really.) very simple:
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The python script checks if a new episode is released by the eztv team (btw, thank you guys)
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if a new one is available, the script writes its magnet URI somewhere and add it to the database
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if the latest released is already in the TVShow Downloader, it does nothing
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With a bash script you can add the magnets into your favorite torrent manager
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The included example bash script will open the magnet link in Transmission
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Last part, the crontab runs the whole process one time per day for example!
Anyway I hope you'll enjoy the thing as much as I do (at least).
Currently, it only uses the feedparser library ; you can find it here: http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/
NB: Maybe, I will replace the feedparser library by basics python regex