Good morning! Either everyone already knows this and I'm very late to the party, this is a best kept secret, or both.  In any case, anyone using transmission that would like to get it to grab torrents via RSS feeds here is your ticket: https://github.com/nning/transmission-rss

 

A couple of notes and quick tips:

 

- I did this for my Arch VM but it is surely available for all linux variants.

 

- It can be found in AUR so you'll need to build it yourself or use something like yaourt

  -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/transmission-rss/

 

- It will also need to build ruby-open_uri_redirections in the process as it is a AUR available dependency so don't be surprised when it happens

 

- By default it will take on the user privileges of the current user/group.  Being that my user account is a member of wheel, or because it is being invoked with "sudo  systemctl transmission-rss", it ends up running as user ROOT.  Therefore I strongly suggest editing the config file.  I figured a good option would be to run it as transmission:transmission since it has no need to access anything that transmission can't.  You will have to change the config to look like this

privileges:
  user: transmission
  group: transmission 

 

- You'll note that I uncommented "privileges" as well as the next two lines.  If you don't do that it will fail to start.

Interesting.  I'm using flexget with transmission and it works fine.  Flexget is very powerful.

 

  This might be a mini project when spare time is to be had.

very mini.  it is very fast and easy to install and use ... well once i dealt with the root issue   I'm using it with TVTorrents' own RSS include/excludes but this does offer you its own regex functionality as you might have seen. 

 

I did run across a flexget reference for adding RSS functionality to transmission but for some reason I can't recall now I just breezed by it [shrug].  I think it might have seemed overkill at the time?  Or the install daunting?  I don't know, but this jumped right out at me as solving my very simple itch.  It is also by first foray into using RSS for torrents so simple appealed to me.