RSS Feeds and Magnet Links

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I see how it's possible to manually load a magnet link into rutorrent, and I've had RSS feeds setup for a long time, but never the combination (an RSS feed that serves manet links). Is this possible? Thanks!
 
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peshua19 said:
Can't understand, sorry. Simple, step by step - what is your problem?
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Sorry about my delay in responding, have been offline for awhile. Here's the issue I see. One of my rss feeds recently changed to serving magnet links instead of torrent files (you can guess which one). Now in my log files in rutorrent, I see this:
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Error loading torrent. (magnet:?xt=urn:btih: ...

If I look in the feed itself, the torrent that I want loaded shows with status of Load error (4). Thanks.
 
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peshua19 said:
You must use svn version of ruTorrent and rTorrent >= 0.8.9 for work with such feeds.
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Thanks. I upgraded libtorrent and rtorrent last night successfully (0.8.9/0.12.9), but having issues with the rutorrent upgrade. I'll work on that a bit and see if I can figure it out. Thanks!
 
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randac56 said:
Thanks. I upgraded libtorrent and rtorrent last night successfully (0.8.9/0.12.9), but having issues with the rutorrent upgrade. I'll work on that a bit and see if I can figure it out. Thanks!
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So I got the SVN version up and running, but I'm still getting the same error on the rss feeds. Is there anything else I can check? Thanks.
 
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randac56 said:
So I got the SVN version up and running, but I'm still getting the same error on the rss feeds. Is there anything else I can check? Thanks.
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Yes.
1) Check - are you really use svn version of ruTorrent core and all it's plugins.
2) Try to load magnet from the rtorrent console.
3) Check existence of file /tmp/errors.log and paste it's contents here, if it exist.
 
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peshua19 said:
Yes.
1) Check - are you really use svn version of ruTorrent core and all it's plugins.
2) Try to load magnet from the rtorrent console.
3) Check existence of file /tmp/errors.log and paste it's contents here, if it exist.
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1) Ah ha, this is it. I got the latest SVN version, noticed it had no plugins, so I simply copied my old plugins directory to the new svn created plugins folder. I'm currently showing rev 1967 for rutorrent. I just removed the entire plugins directory and now have svn version 1967 for my plugins directory as well.
2) I am able to load a magnet link directly into rtorrent after I upgraded it to 0.8.9
3) It does exist, but the contents are dated from Feb 8th.

4) Thank you very much for your help, I do appreciate it.

Now I'm seeing a different issue, and perhaps this is with rtorrent not rutorrent. If I load a magnet link through the RSS feed, it does load, but it doesn't actually grab the torrent. Now it will show in rutorrent as a name that is the same as the btih: part of the link. It's like the link getting passed to download is not the full link because if I find that torrent page and manually paste the full magnet link into rtorrent, the torrent downloads.

Thanks!
 
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peshua19 said:
2) Context menu of the RSS feed contain command 'URL info'. Run it and check - if the URL of loading is corre
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In the URL info from the RSS feed, the magnet links is truncated after the name of the torrent, but the 'serving' site is not included. For example in my rutorrent, I right click this torrent form the feed, choose URL info and then I see this:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:05DB52F2A68D83C6E804F741AF910C9A52DC0DAB&dn=Show_name.18x05.720p_HDTV_x264-FoV

But I also see a link to the description site, and the magnet link there (which I can manually load into rtorrent sucessfully) is described as:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:05db52f2a68d83c6e804f741af910c9a52dc0dab&dn=Show_name.18x05.720p_HDTV_x264-FoV&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80

So the link I'm seeing through the RSS feed is missing the location of the torrent (openbittorrent, publichbt.com, tracker.cc.de). When I try to view the RSS feed in a browser as an XML file, I see the short link. Should it be getting the other pieces somehow? Thanks!
 
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I just noticed if I manually add the trackers within rutorrent to the torrent that was created with just the hash name, the torrent starts downloading properly. So somewhere I'm not getting those trackers attached to the magnet links from this RSS feed.
 
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Thanks. I sent some feedback about the RSS feed, we'll see if it gets updated anytime soon.

One thing that I did notice. When rutorrent catches the RSS feed match, and the torrent then shows with just the hash name in the list, like I said, I can add the tracker and the download then starts. One problem however, when the download starts, it writes directly to my "inprocess" folder, not with a sub folder. So it should be: /rtorrent_path/inprocess/showname.s08e43.../showname.mkv, but instead it becomes /rtorrent_path/inprocess/showname.mkv. This then causes a problem because my .rtorrent.rc has the command to move the parent folder of a completed download, so rtorrent then moves my entire inprocess folder, screwing up every other downloading torrent.

Not sure if that's rutorrent's problem or rtorrent. Since I can't manually change a torrent in rtorrent to add a tracker, I can't test that without using rutorrent.

Thanks again for all of your help.

EDIT: I also noticed the above behavior if I used the Retrackers plugin. The torrent will automatically get the trackers that I want, but the folder name is removed from the path as if the "Don't add torrent's name to path" check box is chosen.
 
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