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Havoc10K:

--- Quote from: kureshii on April 04, 2010, 10:30:15 PM ---Takeshi, all you mentioned is already possible ;) At the very least, all you need is

a) For the fansub tracker site to have a torrent RSS feed (example from Nyaatorrent's search-feed).
b) Scheduling software, which I believe Windows already has its own version of. It's easy enough to create a schedule for it to switch on for 4 hours every night and then go into standby again, just before you leave for vacation. I use it to switch on my laptop at night to do its own backups.

uTorrent's RSS downloader as well as its load-from-folder feature already provide for lots of automation opportunity. These 2 features are available in many other torrent clients as well, so all it takes is to try it out yourself or google it up.

Not that making everything automated is really such a good idea anyway; there simply isn't enough standardisation in the fansub community to create a really reliable fully automated system (I don't think we really need it anyway). For instance, Eclipse doesn't have a torrent feed, so you'll have to rely on a web service like Page2RSS to monitor their releases (I use it on their XDCC page). I prefer to use as few tools as possible in setting up automation so I avoid using it, but sometimes you just don't have much of a choice.

I don't really download so much that I need a fully automated system. Most of my downloading is via XDCC anyway, so I just have a few RSS feeds for releases I'm watching, then search for newly released stuff on #news, paste the command in irssi (running on my NAS which I'm ssh'd into). When I get home I'll have new episodes waiting in my unwatched folder.

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and it's quite useful if the tracker actually uses the damn RSS tool, it would be great, but if youre following a speciffic show, from a speciffic group, like eclipse (easiest to follow) just go to main site, every day and you see news. aint really hard, the idea is already implemented, just no tevery group bothers with an RSS feed tool, and l understand why, they need to focus on their main course of work, not the stuff that isn't necessary.

kureshii:

--- Quote from: Havoc10K on April 04, 2010, 10:41:41 PM ---just no tevery group bothers with an RSS feed tool, and l understand why, they need to focus on their main course of work, not the stuff that isn't necessary.

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Eh, implementing RSS isn't as hard as you make it out to be. If a fansub group can take the time to set up their own tracker, they can set up RSS on it too, which takes next to no effort in comparison.

Any group that really wants to "focus on their main course of work" can just set up a page on Scarywater or edwardk, and have the hassle of tracker management and RSS implementation taken off their hands. Many groups either do this or release directly to Nyaa, so getting automation set up for them is really easy.

Anyway, that's digressing; the point is that for release pages with an RSS feed, getting automation set up is not too hard.

Daiz:
Even if the group itself doesn't have an RSS feed, you could always just use TokyoTosho's RSS feed and set up filters. It's what I do. *Group*Name*of*anime*mkv usually gets what you want just fine :)

Havoc10K:
wasn't scary watre closing business ? l'm not saying they would have a lot of work to it, l only meant, fansubbing groups already do a lot of hard work, l doub't they'd take any effort into doing this, tehy are busy as it is l suppose, l'm not expecting it to happen at all, l have all intrest sites bookmarked so in order to get a new ep is just a click away.

sungman:

--- Quote from: Havoc10K on April 05, 2010, 01:35:45 PM ---wasn't scary watre closing business ? l'm not saying they would have a lot of work to it, l only meant, fansubbing groups already do a lot of hard work, l doub't they'd take any effort into doing this, tehy are busy as it is l suppose, l'm not expecting it to happen at all, l have all intrest sites bookmarked so in order to get a new ep is just a click away.

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Most of what the OP is talking can already be implemented. Fansub groups really don't have to do anything.

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