# Taken from http://code.google.com/p/rssdler/wiki/CommentedConfig # default config filename is config.txt in ~/.rssdler # lines (like this one) starting with # are comments and # will be ignored by the config parser # the only required section (though the program won't do much without others) # sections are denoted by a line starting with [ # then the name of the section, then ending with ] # so this is the global section [global] # download files to this directory. Defaults to the working directory. downloadDir = /home/ankur/Downloads/torrents/rtorrent_loading # makes this the 'working directory' of RSSDler. anytime you specify a filename # without an absolute path, it will be relative to this, this s the default: workingDir = /home/ankur/.rssdler # if a file is smaller than this, it will not be downloaded. # if filesize cannot be determined, this is ignored. # Specified in MB. Remember 1024 MB == 1GB # 0 means no minimum, as does "None" (w/o the quotes) minSize = 10 # if a file is larger than this, it will not be downloaded. Default is None # though this line is ignored because it starts with a # # maxSize = None # write messages to a log file. 0 is off, 1 is just error messages, # 3 tells you when yo download something, 5 is very, very wordy. (default = 0) log = 3 # where to write those log messages (default 'downloads.log') logFile = /home/ankur/Downloads/torrents/rtorrent_loading/downloads.log # like log, only prints to the screen (errors to stderr, other to stdout) # default 3 verbose = 3 # the place where a cookie file can be found. Default None. # cookieFile = /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/user/cookies.txt # type of cookie file to be found at above location. default MozillaCookieJar # cookieType = MozillaCookieJar # other possible types are: # LWPCookieJar, Safari, Firefox3, KDE # only works if urllib = False and mechanize is installed # cookieType = MSIECookieJar #how long to wait between checking feeds (in minutes). Default 15. scanMins = 60 # how long to wait between http requests (in seconds). Default 0 sleepTime = 2 # to exit after scanning all the feeds, or to keep looping. Default False. # runOnce = True # set to true to avoid having to install mechanize. # side effects described in help. Default False. # will fallback to a sane value if mechanize is not installed # urllib = True # the rest of the global options are described in the help, # let's move on to a thread ################### # each section represents a feed, except for the one called global. # this is the thread: bbt ################### [eztv it] # just link to the feed link = http://www.ezrss.it/feed/ # Default None, defers to maxSize in global, otherwise, # files larger than this size (in MB) will not be downloaded # only applies to the specific thread # if set to 0, means no maximum and overrides global option maxSize = 2048 # like maxSize, only file smaller than this will not be downloaded # if set to 0, means no minimum, like maxSize. in MB. minSize = 10 # if specified, will download files in this thread to this directory # directory = /home/user/someotherfiles # if you do not know what regular expressions are, stop now, do not pass go, # do not collect USD200 (CAN195) # google "regular expressions tutorial" and find one that suits your needs # one with an emphasis on Python may be to your advantage # Now, without any of the download or regEx options (detailed below) # every item in the rss feed will be downloaded, # provided that it has not previously been downloaded # all the regular expression should be specified in lower case # (except for character classes and other special regular expression characters, # if you know what that means) # as the string that it is searched against is set to lower case. # Starting with regExTrue (RET) # let's say we want to make sure there are two numbers, # separated by something not a number # for everything we download in this thread. # the default value, None, makes RET ignored # regExTrue = None regexTrue = (House|The.Big.Bang.Theory|The.Colbert.Report|How.I.Met.Your.Mother|Psych|Two.and.a.Half.Men|Supernatural|Top.Gear) # but we want to make sure we don't get anything with nrg or ccd in the name # because those are undesirable formats, but we want to make sure to not match # a name that may have those as a substring e.g. enrgy # (ok, not a great example, come up with something better and I'll include it) # REF from now on indicates a word boundary) # regExFalse = nrcc) # the default value, which means it will be ignored # regExFalse = None regExFalse = (Housewives|x264|720p) # at this point, as long as the file gets a positive hit in RET # and no hit in REF, the file will be downloaded # equivalently said, RET and REF are necessary and sufficient conditions. # lengthy expressions can be constructed # to deal with every combination of things you want, but there is # a looping facility to allow us to get more fine grained control # over the items we want to grab without having to have hundreds # of characters on a single line, which of course gets rather unreadable # making use of this looping facility makes RET and REF neccessary # (though that can be bypassed too, more later) conditions # however, they are no longer sufficient.... # download is like regExTrue, but begins the definition of an 'item' and # we can associate further actions with it if we so choose # put a non-negative integer where goes # download1 = ubuntu # but say we love ubuntu, and want to always grab everything that mentions it # so we want to ignore regExTrue, this 'bypasses' RET when set to False. # Default True. # download1True = False # we could also bypass REF. but we really don't like nrg, # but we'll deal with ccd's, just for ubuntu # to be clear, downloadFalse is a mixed type option, # taking both True, False for dealing with the global REF # or a string (like here) to specify what amounts to a 'localized REF', # which effectively says False to the global REF # while at the same time specifying the local REF # download1False = \bnrg\b # with %()s interpolation, we can effectively add on to REF in a basic manner # say for Ubuntu, we don't want want the 'hoary version, # download1False = hoary.*%(regExFalse)s # this will insert the value for regExFalse in place of the %()s expression # resulting in: hoarsy.*nrcc) # note the parantheses are there b/c they are in the original REF # we don't want to download things like howto, md5 files, etc, # so we can set a minSize (MB) # this overrides the global/thread minSize when not set to None # Default None. works like thread-based minSize. # a maxSize option is also available # download1MinSize = 10 # download1MaxSize = 750 # and finally, we can put our ubuntu stuff in a special folder, if we choose # download1Dir = /home/user/ubuntustuff # note that the numbers are not important # as long as the options correspond to each other # there is no download2, and that is ok. # download3 = fedora # you have to have the base setting to have the other options # this will not work b/c download4 is not specified # download4Dir = /home/user/something