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Yet another beta of feed2torrent. Overcomes some recent changes to the item titles of some popular torrent feeds. Should be all better now.

I just uploaded another beta of feed2torrent.

Simple trick I thought I would share since not all torrent files are behind feeds. If you add feed2torrent to your cron, you can simply drop .torrent files into the downloads directory and it will get picked up by feed2torrent on its next run.

Yet another beta of feed2torrent available. Super minor tweaks, and includes a sample feed file to get you started on the right foot.

Just uploaded some minor tweaks to feed2torrent and named it beta 3. Specifically I added ETag and last modified support to the feed fetching. Unfortunately I don't know any feeds that support ETag and last modified, so it hasn't been tested all that well, if at all. Besides that, it has been working famously. Enjoy.

My continued dorking around with python has led me to the creation of a script that can download torrent files from a rss/atom feed, and spawn enhanced ctorrent instances that retrieve the files the torrent references. It can be found on the feed2torrent page.

Goofing around, I added a feature to mod-ag that scrapes all the hyperlinks and their anchor text from the feeds and returns nothing but a list of words and phrases out of context. I wanted to pull del.icio.us tags for the link and display them also, but I don't see a api call for it.

I've put together a simple NetKernel module that tends to greatly simplify service and application development. mod-e4x provides helper functions allowing for rapid construction of services using the ECMAScript for XML syntax provided in the Rhino JavaScript interpreter. With mod-e4x, JavaScript becomes a viable alternative to the NetKernel DPML language.

Please note there is a new version of extractor ready for download. It includes a fix that converts ID3v1 genre codes to text. And also includes a quick and dirty Ruby script to generate 'genre' directories of albums using symlinks. This works great with Tivo HMO for Apache.

Uploaded an updated version of extractor. Not much new, but probably easier to get working out of the box.