Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Getting mininova RSS feeds and uTorrent to play nice

uTorrent has an excellent built in RSS feed parser, but it does not work properly with mininova's RSS feeds (which only supplies URL:s to the torrent's web pages and not the torrents themselves) without some sort of kludge. RSSatellite has been quite popular, but then you either need to find someone who has set it up for sharing or install a local web server.

Enter direct option. You simply pass it on to a mininova RSS URL, just as any other URL option by tacking on "&direct" (without quotes) after the original URL. It is described on mininova's blog, but that post doesn't show up when searching on Google for solutions to this problem. I'm doubting this will either, but at least I have a placeholder for future reference for myself.