uTorrent and RSSatellite Tutorial

Penguin February 17th, 2007

I made the switch. I used to be an avid Azureus fan, but now that I’m running Fedex Ship Manager, I need something a little more light weight.

If you’ve used bittorrent, Mininova is a great place for all your pirate needs. According to uTorrent’s RSS tutorial, it says that just plugging in Mininova’s rss feeds won’t work. You need something like RSSatellite. If you go to download it, you get a PHP file. This is how you use it.

If you have a webhost, you can serve the page yourself. Otherwise, you can use one of a few mirrors.

When you click on the mirror, you’ll get three input boxes. The first box, is the rss feed you are looking for, in our case, we’re looking for mininova, which is:

http://mininova.org/rss.xml

if you want to use a specific feed from mininova, say, for the show, 24, you would use this:

http://www.mininova.org/rss.xml?sub=3

You should be able to leave the “Find” and “Replace” input fields the mininova default. If you lost them, they should be the following:

Find:
http://www.mininova.org/tor/

Replace:
http://www.mininova.org/get/

“Okay…”, I hear you say confused. Now, hit the “Replace” button. If you have firefox2, you may see a google page that asks you to sign up for their reader. You don’t want either of these. What you want, is the green link the page serves up, copy this link. If you’re in IE, just copy your location bar.

This is the link you’ll be using in uTorrent.

So, the 24 link should look like:

http://open.backslash.org.uk/RSSatellite.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mininova.org%2Frss.xml%3Fsub%3D3&find=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mininova.org%2Ftor%2F&replace=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mininova.org%2Fget%2F&truncatebeforeslash=0

Happy downloading!

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  • Kurto2021
    I am just playing with this for right now. I can't seem to figure this out.

    Here is the link I got for the Colbert Report
    http://www.mininova.org/rss/co...

    I don't really know what to do from here
  • NinjaVsPenguin
    It depends on where the torrent is. For mininova, they have specific feeds for the more popular series. Go to "Browse categories -> TV shows" and you'll see a list with the corresponding link to the feed. Obviously, some shows don't have dedicated feeds. In which case, mininova generates a feed for each search, or you can use uTorrent's built in filter.

    HTH
    -Penguin
  • Michael
    My question is how do you find out a specific feeds address, for instance you use 24 as the example and you tacked on ?sub=3 to http://www.mininova.org/rss.xm.... How did you find that 24's feed is http://www.mininova.org/rss.xm... specifically ?sub=3.
  • NinjaVsPenguin
    The reason why you can't generate it is, because the mirror went down. Use this link:

    http://www.ece.fr/~klein/RSSAt...
  • onestep
    Nice tutorial!

    The RSS feed generated for Mininova AXXO workED in uTorrent fine until yesterday. I think Mininova changed "something" because I can not generate another RSSatellite feed that works!

    Any ideas for a work around?
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