How to never miss another episode of your fav show with BitTorrent and RSS

I think I can definitely say that I am a big fan of bittorrent, I hardly watch TV due to the fact that I don't have cable or satellite. (Probably due to the fact that I get everything from Suprnova) Anyways I use Azureus as my bittorrent client of choice and in while I was doing my daily searches today I came across a little article on how to get bittorrent to automatically download your shows from tvtorrents using RSS.

I haven't tried this yet since I'm still at work, but I will give it a try when I get home though. Also who says you have to use just tvtorrents, i bet you can find some suprnova rss feeds to throw in there.

The how-to:

1. You will need to use Azureus. It’s a pretty good BT client and I’d recommend using it anyway. It is a Java application and works on most platforms.
2. You will also need the RSS Import plugin for Azureus. Installing it is a matter of dragging the unzipped folder into the plugins folder in your Azureus directory and restarting Azureus.
3. In Azureus, go into the preferences and expand the plugins tab. Choose RSS Importer.
4. Check the Activate RSS Importer Plugin box.
5. Enter http://www.tvtorrents.net/rss.php as the RSS Channel to import. You can also enter http://www.btefnet.com/backend.php, each some shows that the other doesn’t.
6. In the next text box, Filter …, enter a regular expression that matches the name of torrent of the the show you want to download. A quick guide to the kinds of regular expressions that are expected here is provided on the RSS Import page. For The West Wing, for example, I put in west.wing.*hdtv — which means download any file that include the letters west, followed by any single character, followed by the letters wing, followed by any number of characters, followed by the letters hdtv, to make sure I get the HDTV version and not the VCD version. For multiple shows, separate them with a semi-colon, so west.wing.*hdtv;enterprise.*hdtv would download The West Wing and Enterprise.
7. Under Recheck channels… I would recommend putting in 60, so as not to bombard the TV Torrents server with more requests than necessary.
8. And you’re set. Don’t worry about the other options. Now you just have to wait for the next episode to air. You should have it in your downloads folder the next day.

The original howto is over at pealco.net