RSS Feeds: Unable to load "....torrent": Invalid torrent file!

[metamagico]

For uTorrent 1.6:

I'm picking up a feed from a popular site (ends in Spy)

Favourites are set up as:

Filter: *keytext*

Not: <blank>

Save in: is non-blank and has a good value

Feed: (All)

Quality: ALL

Smart ep filter is checked

Minimum interval: (match always)

Label for new torrents: TV Shows

The Releases tab shows that the feed is feeding.

The History tab shows that the filter is catching entries

But when I double click on an entry in Releases, I get:

Unable to load "[Videos - - Main -] keytext.torrent": Invalid torrent file!

When the filter catches an entry, I get the same message except in the Logger tab on the main page.

From this information, can you deduce why uTorrent does not see the file with the .torrent extension as a valid torrent file?

Many thanks in advance,

Meta

[Ultima]

What happens when you download the torrent manually and load it in µTorrent?

[metamagico]

I have downloaded the .torrent file explicitly and opened it from within µTorrent, and I have downloaded it and have it automatically passed to µTorrent via file association. In both cases, the torrent is recognized and the files begin to download.

[Ultima]

Weird... the site doesn't require cookies or any form of authentication, right?

[Firon]

torrentspy's feed doesn't link to the torrent, only to the HTML details page.

[metamagico]

Thank you. The misunderstanding is mine. If I can ask a further question, then:

I'm looking to detect and launch a download when a torrent which matches my search criteria appears. Is there a way to do that, and if so, how? If the current feed I am using is not supplying the feed that I need, is there an example of another which does? Or have I completely misunderstood the purpose of the RSS feature of uTorrent which seems to open the matching file when it detects it.

Meta

[Ultima]

You've got the idea right, but with that feed, you can't do it. I'm not sure if RSSatellite would help TorrentSpy, since I've never used the site, but maybe it does.

[Firon]

RSSatellite can work with TorrentSpy, but you'll need to find a working mirror.

[metamagico]

Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

[LpTotti]

Can RSSatellite work with private trackers like bitmetv.org, supertorrents.org etc?

[Ultima]

If it can pass cookie information, maybe, but I doubt it, and I doubt you'd want to do it, even if it could. Why would you want to use a private tracker's RSS feed on RSSatellite anyway? Is it not linking directly to the torrents?

[LpTotti]

No, don't think so. I've made another topic about my problem. Please, look at it if you think you can help me.

[yetdog]

I am trying to get RSS automatic download feeds working on my site as well, and am running into the "invalid torrent file" problem. Subscribing to the RSS feed within my browser works perfectly, as does downloading the file through that feed in the browser and opening up the .torrent attachment within uTorrent. However, I'm getting the 'invalid torrent file' when plugging the feed in to uTorrent's RSS downloader.

Now, my website requires users to be logged in to download attachments - but is the only way to do this with the :COOKIE appendage to the rss feed URL in uTorrent? That would expose the userid/encrypted password though, wouldn't it? Is there any more of a secure way to handle this?

Thanks so much for your time.

Matt Yette

matt@antsmarching.org