How to Download TV Shows from the Internet

You need two things that you need to get your shows from the internet: a tool to download the files and a site that posts links to the files.

Get a "Bit Torrent" tool that will download the files from the internet.

Bit Torrent is a technology that allows you to download large files from users all over the world. Many people have a file and you take little pieces of the file from all of them at the same time. This is a pretty safe technology.

There are many “Good” Free Bit Torrent tools available; this guide will use one called “uTorrent”. Another good one is “Azureus”.

Get the uTorrent tool HERE.

Install the "uTorrent" software on your computer.

After you install the software and open it, you need to tell it where to put the files (tv shows) that you download.

Click Options> Preferences from the application’s toolbar.

This will open the Preferences window.

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Select Downloads from the navigation tree on the left side of the Preferences window. This is where you tell uTorrent where to put your downloaded files.

Set your system to the circled setting above.

Finding Your Shows

Now, you are all ready to get some TV shows. You need to open up your web browser and go to a “Torrent Download Site” that will let you begin downloading files.

There are many of these sights that specialize in different things like Computer Software (probably semi-illegal), Video Games (ditto), and Videos. The one that caters specifically to TV and is very good is TVRSS.

Go to http://tvrss.net/shows/ in your browser.

There is an alphabetical “Jump To” list at the top of the page. Click on the letter that your show starts with to find the show.

Let’s say you’re a fan of Saturday Night Live, click on the letter “S”.

Locate and select your show.

You will be directed to a list of posted episodes.

There is a bit of information here, but the key thing is the last field (Date and Time). Shows will be chronologically listed by the date they were posted to the site. Usually the day after the show aired. Newest dates are at the top.

Click on the Show Name link on the right side of the screen for your episode.

Now, you will see a link that says “Download this torrent!”

Click this link to start downloading your file.

You will be asked if you want to Save or Open the file.

YOU MUST CLICK OPEN!

Then, uTorrent will open and ask you if want to add the new torrent. This means start downloading the torrent.

Of course you want to download the torrent.

Click the OK button.

The file will begin downloading.

The ETA column lists the amount of time until the file completes downloading. You can right click on the torrent and select a few things to speed up your download.

Bandwidth Allocation> High and Update Tracker These will speed up the file.

How to Make uTorrent Automatically Find and Download your Favorite Shows

You can have uTorrent go look for newly posted episodes of your favorite shows and begin downloading them automatically. This is done using an “RSS” feed. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication; which allows websites to post new content to their site and have a “RSS Reader” check and download this new content automatically. There is an RSS Reader built into uTorrent.

If you go to the tvRSS (the RSS in the name refers to this technology) download page for your show, there is an RSS link at the top of the episode listing. (circled below)

You need to right click on this RSS link to open your browser’s Options menu.

Select Copy Shortcut from the Options menu.

Now, go back to uTorrent and tell it to check this “feed”.

Select Options> RSS Downloader from the toolbar.

This will open the RSS Downloader window.

You are going to Add a feed to this list.

Click the Add button.

The Enter Feed form will open.

Press “Ctrl + V” on your keyboard to paste the link that you copied into the field.

Click the OK button to close the Enter Feed form.

Your feed will be listed in the RSS Downloader window.

Click the Close button to close this window.

Now, uTorrent will automatically look for newly posted episodes and download them automatically each time you launch the program.

You can use this technique to queue up all of your favorite shows. If you launch it in the morning before work, they will be there waiting for you by the time you get home.