automatic torrent downloader tv shows What does it do? Medusa is an automatic Video Library Manager for TV Shows. It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows, and when they are posted it does its magic: automatic torrent/nzb searching, downloading, and processing at the qualities you want. Integrated. Can notify Kodi, XBMC, Growl, Trakt, Twitter, WDTV and more when new episodes are available. Animated. Anime is also supported. Don't miss your weekly episodes! Subtitles. Automatic subtitle matching and downloads from Addic7ed, OpenSubtitles, Podnapisi, TVSubtitles and more. Torrents. Lots of providers supported: TPB, RARBG, IPTorrents, T411 and many more. Usenet. In addition to torrent trackers, Medusa also supports usenet: NZBs, BinSearch, Usenet-Crawler and many more are available. How to automate your movies and tv shows downloads using Linux and torrents. Regularly downloading TV shows and movies via torrent can become tedious and monotonous task. Having to track the airing date of every show, and going every week to you favorite tracker and downloading the latest episode quickly becomes boring, even if you are only following a couple of shows. Movies are not as bad, but decent-quality torrents aren’t available for some months after the premiere, generally. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a system where you could just input a movie and then forget about it until it is downloaded for you in the quality you requested? Also, subtitles! If you need them, you know that they are a bummer to get every time. This guide will try to guide you as you create a system that takes gives the machine the responsibility to deal with all the boring part involved with torrenting . We’ll accomplish this with a couple of programs and websites: For movies we’ll use a one-in-all solution: CouchPotato. For series, we’ll use a combination of: Flexget and showRSS For subtitles, it is a simple script called Transmission-torrent-subtitles (don’t pay much attention to the name: it can work with any torrent software) You also need, of course, a torrent client. There are a bunch out there, but I like transmisison the best. You may choose whichever you live, but it must allow you to execute a script after a torrent finishes and it must have some sort of web interface for CouchPotato to communicate with. The basic outline provided here should work on any Linux distribution, but this guide is written for Arch Linux. If you are using Arch, you’ll have to setup yaourt before because we’ll use it and install some torrent client before hand. Also remember this may be illegal depending on where you live and what you intend to download. TV Shows. Setting up our feed. Simple step: just create an account on showRSS. It is a simple website that provides you with a list of torrents for the shows you follow and can give you an RSS feed of them. Installing flexget. Once you have set up your showRSS account, you can install flexget. Flexget is an utility that allows you to automatically download torrents from an RSS feed. Technically, you could feed flexget a big RSS with all the shows available in, for example, eztv and then configuring it so as to download only the shows you want. But I prefer to have a simpler configuration that depends on my already personalized feed from showRSS. Flexget is installed kind of weirdly. You have to use pip, a package manager exclusively used for python programs. It is not difficult though. First, install python2 and pip. How to use RSS & BitTorrent to download TV shows. Are you tired of scanning several BitTorrent sites for the latest episodes of your favorite TV-show? You should definitely try using RSS feeds then. RSS and BitTorrent are a perfect match. What the heck is RSS? For those who are not familiar with the term, RSS is an acronym that stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. It allows you to keep up-to-date on content from sites you are interested in. Most news sites, blogs and podcasts have RSS feeds that let you automatically receive updates when a new article (or episode in the case of podcasts) is published (we have one). These days, many BitTorrent sites have also started publishing RSS feeds of their listings. These feeds are often highly customizable, and can send you updates on whatever you want. Some even enclose .torrent files like podcast feeds enclose media ones. In this article we will focus on RSS feeds for TV-torrents. Here are 5 ways to use these feeds. From completely automated downloading and watching, to simple updates when a torrent for your favorite TV show is published. Downloading TV-shows can be illegal in some countries. If so, consider moving to another country, download share friendly shows only, or collect the torrents just for fun. First, you might want to know where you can find these feeds. A great site to find TV torrent feeds is tvRSS.net. Click on one of the shows and you will see a list of the torrents for the latest episodes. In the blue bar above the search results you might notice the “search based RSS feed”, that is the feed that indexes releases of a particular show. This is the feed were going to use, so copy the url. It is worth pointing out that other, less TV-focused sites like mininova also offer search-based RSS feeds. The reason they’re called “search-based feeds” is because they are feeds that relate to particular search terms. For example, if you search for ‘Rocketboom’, at the top of the results page you will get a feed that will send you updates on all torrents with the word ‘Rocketboom’ in their name. OK, so now you know how to find a feed for your favorite TV show. Although, you might still be wondering what you are to do with these feeds. Some people prefer to receive only an alert, others might want to have their torrents start downloading automatically. Here are a couple of suggestions. Torrents in your feed reader. This is probably one of the easiest ways to receive updates on the latest episodes of your favorite TV shows, especially if you already use a feed reader. You can use either a desktop or a web-based reader. Some popular web-based feed readers include Bloglines, Google Reader and Netvibes. Desktop feed readers vary from platform-to-platform. The most common desktop reader for Windows would have to be the appropriately named Feedreader. On Linux, Liferea is a good option. And on Mac OS X, Vienna is possibly the best free desktop reader available. All three of these are Open Source too. Torrents by Email. If you use an email application like Thunderbird with RSS support you can directly add the feed in there. If not, you can try a feed-to-email service that will forward the latest torrents to your email account. FeedBlitz and Squeet are two popular feed-to-email services. TV Torrent Software. TVTAD and Ted are applications that help you to get the latest TV torrents by using RSS feeds. Both applications are advanced feed readers that you can customize to find and download your favorite TV shows. These applications have a pre-loaded list of TV torrent feeds and some advanced filter options built in. They are especially useful when you use a BitTorrent client that doesn’t have RSS support. BitTorrent Clients with RSS Support. There are a couple of BitTorrent clients that are able to handle RSS feeds. Azureus, Bitcomet and uTorrent for example can all subscribe to RSS feeds. You can check this list to see if your favorite BitTorrent client supports RSS feeds. uTorrent has a great tutorial how to configure the feeds to automate downloading. Broadcatching / Internet TV Applications. To quote the Wikipedia entry on the topic, “ b roadcatching is the downloading of content that has been made available over the Internet using RSS Syndication for listening on mobile devices and personal computers”. These internet TV players allow you to automatically download and watch the latest TV shows, video podcasts and more. These players might be useful for people who only use BitTorrent to download video files. Personally I’m not too excited about these players yet. Most players are still pretty buggy, and not very advanced in their configuration options. The EFF has its own such application. It was previously known as Broadcast Machine, but was subsequently renamed to Democracy Player. It too is still quite buggy, hogs RAM and crashes often. Here’s a review of three popular “broadcatching” applications we did a while ago. Did this tutorial help you? Or do you already use BitTorrent and RSS to download and watch content? How to Automatically Download TV Shows as Soon as They've Aired (or Turn Your PC into a TiVo) Video content is readily available online for you to download, but the download process isn't always as simple and automated clicking a button on a TiVO or DVR. Fortunately, with a little set up and some help from a few great tools and BitTorrent or Usenet, you can turn your computer into a TiVo-like downloader. Here's how to set them up. Note: This tutorial is going to mention Usenet. We're aware that a lot of you have a problem with that. We've discussed this issue before (see "Regarding the First Rule and Other Issues") so we're not going to discuss it here. BitTorrent and Usenet are tools that allow you to download files easily. Some of those files are TV shows and they're not necessarily legal to download. What you choose to download with the software described in this tutorial is entirely up to you. You accept responsibility for your actions if you choose to download content you are not legally authorized to download. We're going to provide you with the information necessary to set up and use the described software, but your ethical and legal decisions will be left up to you. With all of that out of the way, you need to choose what you want to use. First we're going to take a look at setting up a PVR using BitTorrent and then we're going to look at doing the same thing with Usenet. If you prefer Usenet to BitTorrent, jump down to the Usenet section below. The BitTorrent-Based PVR. Setting up a PVR with BitTorrent is incredibly simple, primarily because there are RSS feeds online that update with new episodes for a given show so you can easily obtain torrent files for the latest episodes. While many BitTorrent clients have RSS feed support, we're going to look at using separate applications that intelligently read these feeds to make the downloading process even easier. Windows and Linux: TED (Both) or TVTrigger (Windows) If you're running Windows or Linux, you can use a neat little application called TED to schedule your show downloads. You can also use TED on a Mac, so you can use these instructions to set up TED on your Mac as well (although we're going to look at a different application for Mac in just a bit). First, download and install TED . Once you're all set, open it up and you should see a screen similar to the one pictured on the left. To get started, cick the "Add Show" button up top and you'll be presented with a new panel containing a large list of shows. Find the one you want by browsing or search, then click on it. You'll be given information about the show as well as a few options. Select which episode you want to start with, whether or not you want to watch it in HD, and click the "Add" button. Once you do that, just repeat for all the shows you want to add and wait until they download. TED will let you know when the next air date is for each episode and will check for new episodes every 60 minutes (which you can change in TED's settings). When TED finds a new episode, it will download a torrent file to your computer and open it in your default BitTorrent client. That's it, you're all set! UPDATE: Windows users may also want to check out TVTrigger , an all-in-one TV show searching and BitTorrent- downloading application. Mac OS X: TVShows. Setting up a PVR with BitTorrent on Mac OS X is ridiculously simple While you can use TED, the same application described in the Windows section, TED isn't exactly geared towards Mac and might confuse some novice Mac users. For that reason, we're going to look at TVShows as it's Mac-only and very simple to use. If you'd like the additional features that TED provides, check out the Windows section above. The instructions will work just the same for Mac. To get started, first download TVShows and open it. TVShows requires a BitTorrent client to already by installed on your Mac. If you have yet to install one, it will recommend Transmission and help you download it. All that you really need to do to get it working at this point is start adding shows. To do that, scroll through the list (or search it) and click the "Subscribe" button. This will tell TVShows to watch for new episodes and download them as soon as they're available. When it finds a new episode, it will download a torrent file and open it in your default BitTorrent client. Your BitTorrent client will then download that episode and it will be waiting for you on your computer without any effort on your part. While that's all you really need to do, TVShows also has some useful options. If you head into the preferences panel, you can set how often it checks for shows and also set the quality of the file. If you prefer HD, a 720p option is available. You can also set the folder it uses to save torrent files so you don't find them popping up somewhere you don't expect. That's all you need to do—it's really that easy. The Usenet-Based PVR. For both Windows and Mac, Sick Beard is the software of choice. You can also install Sick Beard on Linux, but we won't be covering that here (although the Linux installation process is not much different from the one for Mac OS X). Sick Beard isn't as simple to set up as the software in the BitTorrent section of this tutorial, but it's still pretty easy and it provides much more advanced functionality. It can also facilitate BitTorrent downloads as well as Usenet. First we'll take a look at installing Sick Beard on Windows (which is very easy), then Mac OS X (which is a little more work), and then take a look at how to use Sick Beard's web interface on any platform. Note: Before we get started, you should know that Sick Beard requires that you have Usenet access and you use SABnzbd as your Usenet binary downloader. (It can work with BitTorrent as well, but we're only covering Usenet here.) If you haven't taken care of this already, read our guide on setting up Usenet , which will walk you through the entire process in three easy steps (with video). Installing Sick Beard on Windows. To get Sick Beard set up on your Windows PC, go to the Sick Beard downloads page and download it . Unzip Sick Beard to whatever folder you'd like it to live in (it's really up to you), then launch the installed executable. There's really nothing to installing Sick Beard on Windows, so if you're a Windows user, you can jump down to the Using Sick Beard section below. Installing Sick Beard on Mac OS X. Sick Beard isn't available as an executable for Mac, but installing the necessary software to run it and update it is very easy. While the following instructions may seem a little daunting, especially if you're not comfortable with the command line, it's actually very easy. In most cases you should be able to complete the installation in just a few minutes. Here's how to do it. First, if you're not running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard this may not work. You can try it, but we can't promise Sick Beard will run. If you are running Mac OS X 10.6, you'll need to install a couple of things: Git Cheetah. Downloading and installing Git is very easy because it's packaged up for you. You just double-click on the installer once you've downloaded it, run through the usual installer screens, let the installer do its thing, and then you're done. Cheetah requires a tiny bit more effort to install. Once you've downloaded Cheetah, open up the Terminal application (you'll find it in Hard Drive - > Applications -> Utilities). Once terminal is open, type cd , a space, and then drag the folder containing Cheetah onto the terminal window. This should add the path to the Cheetah folder to command you've started typing. For most of you, it should look like this: Press enter, then type this command (or just copy and paste it into your Terminal window): sudo python setup.py install. Press enter and you'll be asked for your password. Type it in, press enter again, and then Cheetah will install. This should only take about a minute. Once Cheetah has been installed, we can start installing Sick Beard. If any of the following does not work, try quitting and reopening Terminal and trying again. Before we start the installation, we have to decide where to install Sick Beard. I like it in my Applications folder, but you can put it anywhere you want. To put it in your applications folder, enter the following into Terminal and press enter: Now that you're in the folder where you want to install Sick Beard, we need to download all the files from Git. To do that, enter the following command: git clone git://github.com/midgetspy/Sick-Beard.git. Once Git has finished downloading all the Sick Beard files to your Applications folder (or wherever you chose to put them), you'll have a folder called Sick-Beard. To start Sick-Beard, just enter the following in Terminal and press enter: cat python /Applications/Sick-Beard/sickbeard.py. The first time Sick Beard starts up it should take a little longer than usual, so don't worry if nothing happens for 30 seconds or so. When Sick Beard is ready to go, it will open in a new window (or tab) in your default web browser. That's it, you're done! When you want to update Sickbeard, you can do so easily with the following Terminal commands (note that the first line contains the path to Sick Beard, so if you installed it somewhere other than applications you'll need to change the path): cd /Applications/Sick-Beard git pull. Just make sure you shut down Sick Beard before you update. That's it! Special thanks to jetshred for the great instructions! Using Sick Beard. Sick Beard is very easy to use, as its function is to make downloading shows a simple and automated process. Once Sick Beard is running, you can access it from your web browser (on the same machine) at http://localhost:8081 . If you want to access Sick Beard from another computer, just replace localhost with the local IP address of the machine that's running Sick Beard. Once you get to the main screen (pictured to the right), you can add shows to Sick Beard by clicking the "Add Show" button in the episode list. This will present you with two options: Add New Show or Add Existing Show. This might be confusing at first because if you have no shows added to Sick Beard, how could you possible add an existing show? An "Existing Show" is defined by Sick Beard as a show that already has a folder on your hard drive. This means that if you've used SABnzbd (or something else) to download a show and it's already in your SABnzbd downloads folder, it counts as an existing show. If you have no previously-created folder for a show, however, it is considered a "New Show" and you'll want to choose that option. New Shows. Adding a new show is very simple. First, search for the show you want. After a few seconds, Sick Beard will return a list of shows it recognizes. It will, most likely, automatically choose the show you want. If not, just select that show from the list. Click next to move to step two, which will let you select a download location. Do this, then move on to step three and select download options for the show. When you're done, click "Add Show." That's all you have to do. Existing Shows. If you chose existing shows, you'll be first asked to manage the directories that Sick Beard works with. Click the "New" button in the Manage Directories panel (pictured to the right) and browse to the directory that holds your TV show downloads. Once you select it, Sick Beard will read the downloads folder and give you a list of all the shows it finds. Uncheck any of the shows you don't want to add and then click the Submit button. Sick Beard will then walk you through matching each show directory you added with information it finds about those shows. You'll also be able to set whether or not you prefer SD or HD quality at this time. Sick Beard will ask you for your preferences for every show you add , so this process may take a little while. Once you're done, however, Sick Beard will be ready to start downloading every one of these shows for you, automatically. Additional Sick Beard Configurations. While Sick Beard will do its job without additional configuration, if you're using SABnzbd and a NZB tracking site (like NZBMatrix or Newzbin), you can add your credentials and API keys to Sick Beard so that Sick Beard uses those tools for downloading rather than relying on the defaults (which are not necessarily as good). You can also configure Sick Beard to automatically update your XBMC (and other media center) data when it finishes downloading a new show, among a few other neat options. While we're not going to get into the specifics of Sick Beard's config options, you should definitely run through them so you can configure Sick Beard to work best with your setup. To do this, just click "Config" in the Sick Beard navigation and choose the subcategory you want to edit. Top 10 best torrent sites for TV series (2021 UPDATED) Best torrent sites for TV series and episodes is now the most popular topic after the shutdown of the popular KickAss torrents site. You might want to know about some popular and reliable torrent sites to download your favorite TV series. Look no further. We present to you the updated list of the torrent sites for TV series and episodes . Our list of the 10 Best torrent sites is based on the popularity and community support. These sites are widely accepted for TV series and episodes. As we all know that KickAss Torrent site is down and some KickAss Torrents alternative sites are now becoming popular. Finding the best torrent sites for TV series is still cumbersome due to unavailability of the popular torrent downloader KickAss torrent. Best Site for HD TV series without torrents. Visit TVTube HD website. We all know that torrent sites are very slow if the tv series doesn’t have much Seeders or Leechers. So what will you do? You can use TVTUBEHD site to download TV series and you need not to worry about download speed because you can stream every TV series in High Definition format both from Mobile and Computer. It works like charm on MAC and PC too. This is a subscription based website for HIGH DEFINITION TV series in legal way. This is more like NetFlix but cheaper way to watch favorite TV series. Just try and see. **Traffic Report** Daily Unique Visitors: 5,616 Daily Pageviews: 22,464 You can also stream all of them from your mobile device. SO don’t worry about switching devices. Free, Unlimited Access Unlimited access to over 20 million titles. Free. You’ll never be bored again. Below we have collected all torrent sites for TV series. Best Torrent site for TV series 1: eztv.ag. EZTV is the most popular torrent site for TV series. This is site is entirely based on TV series related torrent files only. You don’t need to worry about number of seeders and leechers. This site has all the latest and popular TV series and episodes. This torrent site also shows everyday’s scheduled TV episodes on their site so you will know which TV series or episode is going to be on-air today. We recommend IVACY VPN for torrenting . ( 86% discount for our site visitors. Only 1.50$ per month. ) Ivacy VPN will change your IP address and location. Ivacy VPN also encrypts all internet traffic so there is no way that your ISP can track your identity. Remain safe and happy torrenting. With Ivacy your privacy is protected . Best Torrent site for TV series 2: ExtraTorrent.ag. ExtraTorrent.ag is now the best torrent site for tv series and episodes. It has category for different files like TV series, Musics, Videos, Movies, Softwares, Games, Mobile Apps etc. All latest TV series is uploaded to this site in regular basis. Just use the search function and write any TV series that you want to download. You will get all torrent files with healthy number of peers and seeders. So this is one of the best torrent site for TV series . Best Torrent site for TV series 3: thepiratebay.org. The Pirate Bay is also one of the best torrent sites for the latest tv series and episodes . TPB was down previously but it came back with all might. You can get TV series and latest episodes in this torrent sites. It also has a list of all popular TV series in a categorized page so you can find them easily. TV series lovers look no further TPB is still on your side. You can search the TV series that you want to download from this torrent site or you check the popular TV episodes in the homepage of the pirate bay. Best Torrent site for TV series 4: 1337x.to. 1337x torrent site is present from 2007 and it is also one of the best torrent sites for tv series. You can download any TV series from this torrent site. You have the latest TV series and episodes enlisted in the homepage from where you can choose to download the TV series using either the magnet links or by downloading .torrent files. We recommend Magnet link method as it is safer than traditional torrent files. This torrent site is safe and reliable. Best Torrent site for TV series 5: www.limetorrents.in. Lime torrents has gain its popularity recently for TV series and movies. We couldn’t find the torrent list very updated but you can always use the search feature to get your desired tv series. This site has very user friendly site interface and all torrent files are categorized in menu. Limetorrents will remain one of best torrent sites for TV series. Limetorrents is now on top 5 of our best torrent site for TV series and episode list. Best Torrent site for TV series 6: www.torlock.com. TorLock is one of the top torrent sites for TV series. TorLock has very intuitive user interface and it’s kinda cool. Your torrent files are separated by category. You will find the popular TV series episodes and the movies in the homepage. Only use the center big button that says “torrent” to download the torrent files. The magnet link is also available for individual TV series or Movie torrent files. TorLock works great as torrent files for all categories. Best Torrent site for TV series 7: www.torrentfunk.com. TorrentFunk is merely a search engine for torrent files. The site shows Top 50 most popular torrent files including TV series and episodes. It has latest database of torrent files and site interface is also great. It shows the number of seeder and leecher beside the torrent list to help you decide the health of the torrent file. You can download TV series in .torrent files. More 3 top torrent sites for TV series. There are also many torrent sites for TV series other than these 7 sites. www.torrenthounds.com. torrentz.eu. YIFY-Torrent.org. How to download torrents anonymously? Use VPN while downloading torrent files. Using torrent sites to download torrent files has its consequences. If your ISP finds out you are downloading torrent files they can track your IP and send Warning. You can also face huge amounts of fine for downloading files from torrent sites. It is highly recommended for all TORRENT USERS to use most reliable torrent VPN like Private Internet Access VPN . Conclusion of Top 10 torrent sites for TV series. So these are the top 10 torrent sites for TV series that you can use instead of KickAss Torrent site. Let us know which site is your favorite in the comment section below.