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webtorrent / webtorrent-desktop

❤️ Streaming torrent app for Mac, Windows, and Linux
https://webtorrent.io/desktop
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Add feed support #856

Closed noamokman closed 3 years ago

noamokman commented 8 years ago

Hi everyone, I wanna add RSS support for webtorrent.

Something pretty basic like entering an rss url, and webtorrent will automatically download all torrents from the feed. Thought it would probably be more productive to start a discussion before I submit a PR.

What do you think?

mathiasvr commented 8 years ago

I don't think many people needs this, maybe it would be better as a plugin (#664)?

dcposch commented 8 years ago

I like the idea of adding feeds. We've thought about doing this for version 2: https://github.com/feross/webtorrent-desktop/issues/831#issuecomment-242252488

I want to make the existing functionality feel solid first, though: https://github.com/feross/webtorrent-desktop/issues/652

I think it would be really cool to make some Creative Commons feeds. We would find artists who are willing to release some of their work under an open license, in return for inclusion in the feed. Those feeds would probably replace the default torrents in 2.0, so everyone who installs WebTorrent Desktop would see them.

There's some precedent for this. Wired magazine managed to get some v well known artists to contribute songs to a Creative Commons album. That CD is actually one of our default torrents now: https://creativecommons.org/wired/

For us, rather than trying to get mainstream artists, I think we'd feature indie artists who are not well known. Lots of those people are already giving away their music for free on Soundcloud / Bandcamp and would love the extra exposure.

dcposch commented 8 years ago

@noamokman the feeds would probably be RSS initially, but I would like to support a decentralized alternative. For example, we could use BEP44 http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0044.html

noamokman commented 8 years ago

@dcposch interesting. as @mathiasvr said, this should probably be a plugin. We should first implement the plugin system.

xKeiro commented 7 years ago

RSS support would be a really big feature for my personal use. If you were to implement RSS please make it persistent, so when a new torrents get added, it would automatically download it.

Openmedianetwork commented 6 years ago

I would like this for a seedbox project I am setting up https://github.com/Openmedianetwork/visionOntv/wiki/Seedbox maybe this could be supported in the desktop app - will put a request in there.

SHDanielZ commented 5 years ago

Please?

feross commented 3 years ago

This is a neat feature request but it's out of scope for WebTorrent Desktop at this time. We want to focus on making the common use cases more reliable first so we can get to a 1.0 release.