Hi..

I'm having som trouble figuring out how to make a good filter for various tv-shows. Could anyone share their filters with me or help me make some?

Heroes
Stargate Atlantis
Smallville
Supernatural
Dexter
Prison Break
Eureka
Battlestar Galactica
Mythbusters
Ugly Betty
Men in Trees
Desperate Housewives

Yeah, a guide for how to write your regexp stuff for the RSS Feeds would be nice.

Ya, I triple that. I looked into it, but building regular expressions is a foreign language to me. May as well have been greek!

I'd like to know how to make a filter for Star Trek Enterprise, all four seasons, all disks, iso images only.

There's a pretty good generic starter at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regexp


eztvefnet has a pretty good one here:

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgsf923m_2d6k97n

you really ought to be able to figure it out if you read those 2 and do a little experimentation.

ktorrent's rss script is really good so your regexps don't have to be. I think for heroes all I have is heroes.*.hdtv.* and I exclude [264|720p]

if you only wanted the lol or xor release it's real easy to do, but that's enough to get started

randomjohn wrote:There's a pretty good generic starter at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regexp


eztvefnet has a pretty good one here:

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgsf923m_2d6k97n

you really ought to be able to figure it out if you read those 2 and do a little experimentation.

ktorrent's rss script is really good so your regexps don't have to be. I think for heroes all I have is heroes.*.hdtv.* and I exclude [264|720p]

if you only wanted the lol or xor release it's real easy to do, but that's enough to get started

Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy....
So what does excluding `[264|720p]' mean? And if I only wanted to look for DVD iso files, what should I search on, and what for, because it's not just about which regular expressions to use, but what to search on? I'm somewhat clueless, even after looking at the pages you suggested.

excluding [264|720p] means I don't want h264 or x264 files or files in a 720p resolution to match my query.

I think you're not understanding how rss feeds work. They're used for recurring episodes of a show, usually. Things that have aired already and are out on dvd aren't the type of thing you'd expect to see on a tv rss feed. they're the sort of thing you'd have to break the copyright laws to get by searching on one of "those" bittorrent sites. You're not going to find an rss feed that is putting those out regularly now. If Star Trek was still airing, you'd set up a filter for something like Star.Trek.Enterprise.S??E??.hdtv.*.avi then, every week, within a few hours after it aired, you'd have it on your hard drive.

randomjohn wrote:excluding [264|720p] means I don't want h264 or x264 files or files in a 720p resolution to match my query.

I think you're not understanding how rss feeds work. They're used for recurring episodes of a show, usually. Things that have aired already and are out on dvd aren't the type of thing you'd expect to see on a tv rss feed. they're the sort of thing you'd have to break the copyright laws to get by searching on one of "those" bittorrent sites. You're not going to find an rss feed that is putting those out regularly now. If Star Trek was still airing, you'd set up a filter for something like Star.Trek.Enterprise.S??E??.hdtv.*.avi then, every week, within a few hours after it aired, you'd have it on your hard drive.

Now you're learning...: I told you I was clueless! So if getting an iso isn't kosher, how is getting it in avi format so?

Now, in the example you gave, Supposing I decided to get different ones; For example, there's Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, and suppose there's also another spinoff Stargate Whatever. Is this correct to get all?:
Stargate.*.S??E??.hdtv.*.avi

Another thing that confuses me is the "Test text" section. How does that work?

the test text is good if you have the file listing from your rss feed and want to make sure it's going to match your expression.

I think your stargate example should work.

I'm not going to tell you where to get pirated copies of dvds. It's one thing to be downloading current episodes of broadcast shows as they come out, it's entirely another to pirate a commercially packaged and released dvds.

randomjohn wrote:I'm not going to tell you where to get pirated copies of dvds. It's one thing to be downloading current episodes of broadcast shows as they come out, it's entirely another to pirate a commercially packaged and released dvds.

Actually, I'm more interested in current episodes. One show I like, but can't get good reception on is New Yankee Workshop. I've tried writing a filter, but for some reason it's not downloading anything. I'm filtering on New.Yankee.Workshop*[avi|mp4]. (I can use either format, but mp4 would be more convenient for me, since I can load it into my ipod and watch when and where I have time, then later delete it to make room for more.) I figured out how the test text works, and that filter works on files like New Yankee Workshop - Highboy1.avi.torrent.

I also wrote another filter for file names like NYWS-0606-router101.avi.torrent, using this filter: NYWS*[avi|mp4].

The test text says the former filter will work, but the latter one won't, and I don't see why. Also, even though the former filter should work, nothing has been downloaded. Perhaps I'm not using the correct feeds. Suggestions?

I'm far from an expert on regex, believe me. If you can take either the .avi or .mp4 and don't care which, why not just leave out the search term? Is there some other format that show comes out in that you want to exclude? As I mentioned above, I filter out all h264 and 720p, so usually only avi, mpg or mp4 would be left for me. try taking that expression out of your filter and adding the exclusions of whatever you want.

A lot of anime titles include a hash in the title, such as: [Kuro-Hana] Kenichi - 48 [6BDD5AC6].avi

I've tried many things but the hash keeps interfering with the specific episodes I'm seeking. Here's my current regex: \[.*\].Kenichi.*[1-9]{2,2}.*.avi

Ok I've been looking at the RSS Filter code and the way it handles regex's deviates a bit from what I'm used to Qt doing by itself. The biggest problem seems to be that it assumes there's a season number, and in my case there isn't. What seems to be happening is that it takes what I want to be the episode number as the season, then uses part of the hash as the episode number. What really gets me though is how the episode bounds I set for the series aren't respected in any case.

I'd like the option of not requiring a season number, and for the episode bounds to work correctly.

I've read through this, and the links provided on regex, and I'm still having trouble.

What I want to do is have KTorrent grab everything that does not have .mkv in the name of the torrent file, and download it automatically. I only have one feed, and that is filtered on the feed end to only give me the series I want.

How would I do this?

You could just put a general *.mkv in the ignore section for the RSS filters?