@jimmy7, @masonos

Thanks for all the help and the suggestions. With your help I am on track to properly understand how autodl-irssi works.

I setup a total 7 filters; 5 of them worked and 2 didn't.

I have taken some details from my auto.cfg file so as to see what is going on.

First, the filters that worked; I set max-downloads 1 per week just to ensure that I don't take unnecessary hits on my ratio.

[filter TEST]
match-sites = tl
max-size = 500MB
max-downloads = 1
max-downloads-per = week

Feedback: It worked. I didn't specify anything in P2P or TV/Movies tabs. I just set the max download size to 500MB to see how it goes. It promptly downloaded the next announced torrent which was under 500MB.

[filter TEST2]
match-releases = *c*
max-size = 500MB
max-downloads = 1
max-downloads-per = week

Feedback: This worked too. I used P2P tab to randomly match any release that has a character "c" with a max size of 500MB.

[filter Blindspot S02E19]
match-releases = Blindspot?S02E19?720p*
match-sites = tl
max-downloads = 1
max-downloads-per = week

Feedback: It worked too. I specified release info in P2P tab and left the TV/Movies tab empty.

[filter Arrow S05E19]
match-sites = tl
max-downloads = 1
max-downloads-per = week
match-releases = Arrow?S05E19*720p*

Feedback: This also worked. Here too I specified release info in P2P tab and left the TV/Movies tab empty.

[filter Designated Survivor S01E18]
match-sites = tl
shows = Designated Survivor
seasons = 1
episodes = 18
resolutions = 720p
max-downloads = 1
max-downloads-per = week

Feedback: This also worked. In this case I left the P2P tab empty and used the TV/Movies tab to specify the name of the show, the episode number, and the desired resolution.

Now the filters that didn't work:

[filter Archer 2009 S08E04]
match-sites = tl
shows = Archer
seasons = 8
episodes = 4
resolutions = 720p
max-downloads = 1
max-downloads-per = week

Feedback: In this case I left the P2P tab empty and used the TV/Movies tab to specify the name of the show, episode number, and resolution. I think it didn't work because on TL the show is identified as "Archer 2009" and not as "Archer".


[filter The 100 S04E09]
match-releases = The?100?S04E09?720p*
match-sites = tl
max-downloads = 1
max-downloads-per = week

Feedback: Here I used P2P tab to specify the details and left the TV/Movie tab empty. In this case I think it has something to do with the name of the torrent. EDIT: I just found out that 720p version of this episode hasn't come out yet. So...


All in all, I think I have a good handle on how this works and will push it further. For newbies like me, I would advice caution. Yesterday while I was playing with this, I setup a TEST filter, wherein I by mistake specified max download size to 500GB instead of 500MB and didn't specify the max-download per week or day. It took off and downloaded torrents worth 12 GB in 3-4 minutes. Though I will survive, I took a good hit on my ratio. On a site like TL, especially when you are new, it can just wreck it.

Thanks again to jimmy7 and masonos for helping me out.