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evilhero / mylar

An automated Comic Book downloader (cbr/cbz) for use with SABnzbd, NZBGet and torrents
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Just a thought: bittorrent #87

Closed AtariBaby closed 11 years ago

AtariBaby commented 12 years ago

You may or may not already know that there are Sickbeard forks to use bittorrent instead of usenet to download TV shows. I was wondering, given the challenges of making Mylar work with usenet, have you considered this angle? I hope that doesn't come off as discouraging at all. I love your work and this project even if I can't get it working 100% on my system! Just trying to think outside the box.

evilhero commented 12 years ago

I did have a plan to get torrent sites working, but it's a huge thing to undertake as far as logic goes and a mess of a writeup on my part (seeing as how I haven't a clue about torrents via python atm). There hasn't been an issue with Mylar downloading the nzbs themselves, but more about the adding of comics and the post-processing after the nzb gets downloaded. At some point soon, I'll undertake the task of looking into this...

I realize that there has been a lot of talk everywhere to find an alternative to usenet, but unless it's a closed tracker I don't see how using torrents are any safer for anyone to use (and really there's always more risk associated with downloading from torrents than with usenet, because of the sharing that takes place vs. straight downloading).

kev0153 commented 11 years ago

Could you just set up a blackhole system like the current version of headphones does and just download the torrent to a file? My BT client watches a folder for new torrent files. Most BT clients use of scripts to process files after completion. I have scripts that handle all conversion (to cbz), scraping and renaming of the files. This way you could avoid the whole post processing mess. I use kat.ph to get my comics and I can get them much quicker than using usenet plus I don't want to subscribe to a Usenet service. Right now all I really use Mylar for at the moment is keeping track of new release and a way to index everything. The upload thing is a potential problem but I figure that risk is owned by the user.

evilhero commented 11 years ago

yep that's pretty much the way I was gonna do it -as doing it thru calls and such is way above my paygrade kinda thing (I don't get paid for this, but y'know). I have it so it can search rss feeds but only the newest 100 or so...I'll see about other torrent non private sites