How to use ruTorrent’s autodl-irssi plugin
autodl-irssi is a plugin for that monitors torrent IRC announce channels, downloads torrent files based on a user-defined filter, and then sends the torrent files to a local or remote torrent client. Supports several different private trackers.
Autodl-irssi will help you download and seed the torrents you like before the majority of the tracker users and will allow you to sustain great seeding ratio in your account and has become a very common tool in the community.
- ruTorrent GUI plugin available
- Supports lots of trackers
- Auto connects to IRC servers and channels
- Advanced but easy to use filters
- FTP, webui, watch directory
- Duplicates not downloaded by default
- No broken .torrent files are ever sent to your client
- Option to set max downloads per day/week/month
Login to your ruTorrent and click on the autodl-irssi icon, autodl icon (a green down arrow on the dashboard).
This will show the following menu:
http://i.imgur.com/wHEngp9.png
Filters
This is where you can add and customize your filters. It has multiple tabs which are explained below
General Tab
http://i.imgur.com/IUKBeTR.png
- New – create new filter
- Remove – delete existing filter
- Display name – Name of the filter
- Match Release – Releases you want to match
- Except releases – Releases you do not want to match
- Match Sites – sites you wish to match against
- Minimum size – minimum size you prefer
- Maximum size – maximum size you prefer
TV/Movies tab
http://i.imgur.com/xPAH7hI.png
- TV Show/Movie – Name of Movie or TV Show
- Seasons – Seasons you wish you match, i.e 1, 2, 7 or 1-7
- Episodes Episodes you wish to match i.e. 2,6,10 2-10
- Resolutions Resolutions you wish to match i.e 720p, 1080p
- Encodes – Encodes you wish to match i.e DivX, h.264, x264
- Sources – Sources you wish to match i.e. HDTV, Web-DL
- Years – Years i.e. 2010, 1990, 1995
Music tab
http://i.imgur.com/0Pe25dK.png
- Years – Years, i.e. 1992, 1970, 2014
- Artists – Artist/s you wish to match
- Albums – Album/s you wish to match
- Formats – Formats, i.e. MP3, FLAC
- Bitrates – Bitrate you wish to match i.e. 320, Lossless
- Media – Source Media i.e. CD, WEB
- Tags – Tags you wish to match, rock, pop
- Scene – Whether or not it’s scene
- Log – Log, yes or no or don’t care
- Cue – Cue, yes or no or don’t care
Advanced tab
http://i.imgur.com/SWlY35y.png
- Match Categories – Categories you want
- Except Categories – Categories you do not want
- Match Uploaders – Uploaders you wish to match
- Except Uploaders – Uploaders you do not wish to match
- Except Sites – Sites you do not wish to match for this filter
- Maximum pretime – maximum pretime, i.e, 5min, 7s
Action tab
http://i.imgur.com/753oqy2.png
Your autodl-irssi and ruTorrent are preconfigured, so the default settings on this tab needs to be left untouched.
Choose .torrent action – Save to watch folder
Watch folder – /home/user/Watch
Announce Channels
http://i.imgur.com/MaTSiDA.png
No editing can be done here. This is just a display of the announce channels for each server.
Trackers
http://i.imgur.com/3CsL7nt.png
This tab is solely for settings related to each tracker you use. These may involve saving passkeys or cookies which are needed to fetch the torrents.
IRC Servers
http://i.imgur.com/PLrtmoG.png
IRC Server Section
- Server – This is where you put the server address, i.e irc.server.com
- Port – This is where you specify the port (leaving this blank uses 6667)
- SSL – Check this box if you are connecting to an SSL server port
- Nick – This is the irc username for this server
- Password – This is the nickserv password
- Email – This is the email address your user is registered under
Note: – If you haven’t registered your nick, autodl-irssi will attempt to register it using the settings here
IRC Channel Section
In this section you can set up the channels you wish autodl-irssi to join and monitor.
- Channel Select – this allows you to select channels which are already configured in order to edit settings.
- New – Creates a new channel entry
- Remove – Removes the currently selected channel
- Channel – Channel name, i.e #torrent-announce
- Password – password for the irc channel you want to join if it requires one
- Invite Command – If you must enter a specific command to join a channel, it goes here, i.e “/msg SOMEONE something password”
- Invite HTTP URL – if your channel requires a websites url
- Invite HTTP Header – website header
- Invite HTTP Data – Invite website data
Preferences
General Tab
http://i.imgur.com/gkwGXeQ.png
- Maximum saved releases – Number of maximum saved releases
- Save download history – whether or not to keep a history of matched items
- Download duplicate releases -whether or not to download dupes
- Automatic updates – whether or not to auto-update
Action Tab
http://i.imgur.com/iijSAG9.png
Your autodl-irssi and ruTorrent are preconfigured, so the default settings on this tab needs to be left untouched.
- Choose .torrent action – Save to watch folder
- Watch folder – /home/user/Watch
WebUI
http://i.imgur.com/Ubl3vDd.png
Skip or leave this section untouched as we are using ruTorrent to load torrents from autodl-irssi
FTP
http://i.imgur.com/VuFbkvs.png
- User Name – FTP user
- Hostname – FTP hostname
- Password – FTP Password
- Port – FTP Port
IRC
http://i.imgur.com/jryjv2b.png
Configure this tab if you want to automatically connect to an IRC server.
- username: username used on the IRC server
- real name: real name used on the IRC server
- server: the IRC server
- channel: channel on the IRC server
Programs
http://i.imgur.com/8m1YsLo.png
Skip or leave this tab unfilled since the RSS downloader is using ruTorrent.
Advanced Tab
http://i.imgur.com/YSlrpB0.png
Leave this tab untouched unless you know what you are doing.
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