Stumbled across this cool article that provides instructions on using the RSS Import plugin for Azureus to automatically download content as it appears on Torrent Trackers. You just tell the RSS plugin what feeds to monitor, and you give it some regular expressions as rules to download the files, and it just runs as part of Azureus, downloading files as they match your RegEx. It’s pretty neat!
Is Azureus your preferred client, or are you going to switch?
I’m not generally a Java app fan, but if this works well…I’d switch. Not much choice for OS X…
It’s probably more than I need, but it does the job… The only thing I don’t like about it in OSX is that when you close the window it stops running… In windows you can close the window and it continues to run in the background…
The only other client I’ve used in OSX is BitsOnWheels, which is sexy but locked up for me like every hour or so and I had to restart it…
I used to be hardcore into azureus, until the latest BitTorrent 4.0.1 release. The gui client supports multiple downloads, and upload throttling.. which is all I really need. But that RSS plugin is pretty slick, and I remember a while ago you talking about how you wanted to see something like that.
The other thing I like about Azureus is that you can prioritize files within a torrent… Say you have a torrent that’s the whole season of Scrubs, but you really only need 3 episodes… You can tell it to download just those files and just forget the other ones…
And for whatever reason 4.0.1 still isn’t out for OSX.