Today I’m releasing my first (of hopefully many) simple python tool to the world: pyshowrss

pyshowrss is a simple tool that leverages your personal ShowRSS feed to download your .torrent files to a directory of your choosing and can also post process those .torrent files.

With other Torrent tools like SickBeard and FlexGet being readily available, you might ask, why do you need another tool? To be honest, I just wanted a simpler Torrent downloading tool that would work well for ShowRSS.

Some quick googling led me to this tool which almost fit the bill, but wasn’t quite what I was looking for. So I saw this as an opportunity to tinker with some python and make some changes/improvements… pyshowrss is the result of that. Hopefully some of you will find it useful.. or take it upon yourselves to modify/fork it for your own needs.

For those of you on Windows, I’ve provided a setup program to install the tool. Run it and then modify the user_id value in the pyshowrss.ini file to whatever your ShowRSS user id is:

; a valid showrss user id
; replace 00000 with your user id from showrsss
user_id = 00000