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Download Torrents Remotely with Mininova Bookmarks

torrentfreak.com — Mininova has just launched their new bookmarking feature for registered users. One of the benefits of your mininova bookmarks page is that generates a personalized RSS feed which allows you to automatically add bookmarked torrents to your BitTorrent client.

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  • skazhy, on 07/09/2008, -1/+14now this is a great, great feature.
  • guyro, on 07/09/2008, -2/+7Excellent! The personalized RSS feed will definitely be a big help.
  • compu73rg33k, on 07/09/2008, -1/+9Great use of RSS
  • Mustard911, on 07/10/2008, -1/+3It seems to be using Shareaza magnet links. Only Azureus allows magnet links, doesn't it?
  • robmalon, on 07/10/2008, -5/+12Does it concern anyone that this is going to make it VERY easy for your downloads to be tracked and/or possibly obtained. Hope IP's arent logged with that.
    • dgaspard, on 07/10/2008, -1/+2don't know why you're getting dugg down. Seems like a valid concern.
  • lastlee, on 07/10/2008, -1/+4While this is a great use of RSS, I have no need for this... I use the deluge-torrent web interface to start downloading torrents remotely in addition to RSS feeds.
  • destron, on 07/10/2008, -1/+9http://digg.com/tech_news/MiniNova_Introduces_Remo ...

    Different site, same story.
  • Otto, on 07/10/2008, -2/+6Dupe much?

    http://digg.com/tech_news/Download_Torrents_Remote ... (dupe of this exact same story)
    http://digg.com/tech_news/MiniNova_Introduces_Remo ... (front paged yesterday)

    Stop duping!
    • RoroCo, on 07/10/2008, -3/+1Dupes happen... Get over it. You would have better luck telling people to stop submitting unsubstantiated information to Wikipedia.
      • kmolnar, on 07/10/2008, -2/+0Nobody ever submits unsubstantiated information at Wikipedia.[citation needed]
  • digitallysick, on 07/10/2008, -3/+2How does this work?
  • MCA2142, on 07/10/2008, -2/+2Been doing this with my iPhone via uTorrent web interface for a while now.

    Very handy.

    http://www.davidraso.com/utorrent-iphone/
  • Me0wmix, on 07/10/2008, -6/+1Yeah, but does it stop throttling? Good feature though.
    • tavisjohn, on 07/10/2008, -2/+4You fail to understand how BitTorrent works.

      All this does is make it easier to have a remote computer (in your home or elsewhere) setup to start downloading new torrents.
  • bigpixl, on 07/10/2008, -0/+2I'll be the eunuch who reposts his witty comment from the first time this went popular:

    Great, another distraction at work.

    /diggs while ignoring an excel document
  • kmolnar, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1Sometimes dupes are helpful - I didn't see this yesterday, for example, and it interests me. There's nothing wrong with running a new story after it drops off the front page as long as it's interesting enough that some interested parties may not have already seen it.

    I read Digg every day and it managed to completely fly under my radar.

    Even so, it's not huge news. Web interfaces for BT clients make it kind of superfluous, but still a nice feature.
  • NecroSexy, on 07/10/2008, -1/+2Mininova is riddled with trojans and viruses.
  • yeehawjared, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1Why not just build a torrentflux server? Get an old pc, throw linux on it, and install this:
    http://tf-b4rt.berlios.de/

    I have my entire torrent library anywhere I go. You can also stream your vids with VLC - it's all build right into the web app.
  • tonyr1988, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1Most torrent clients have web interfaces where you can add torrents, remove torrent, monitor torrents, etc. remotely. Combine it with SSH (or automated shell scripts), and you can do some amazing post-processing as well. For example, "Download this file. When it's done, rename it to this, and create a hard symlink to that folder."

    I know for a fact that Azureus, Deluge, and uTorrent all have web interfaces, and I'm sure most others do as well. If you haven't messed with it on your own client, definitely check it out.

    This article shouldn't have talked about REMOTELY downloading torrents, since (nearly) all clients can do this already. What's good about torrent RSS feeds is that you can AUTOMATICALLY download torrents, so you don't have to continually monitor it. Using the example from earlier, you simply say "Download any new releases of this (TV Show/genre of movie/genre of CD/video game/etc). When it's done, rename it to ........and so on"

    So, even with Web interfaces, RSS feeds like this can have a purpose. But it's not to download/manage torrents remotely, but automatically.

    PS You can also use TorrentFlux, as mentioned earlier, which is an entirely web-based torrent client. Amazing idea, but it does lack some features that may be a killer for some people, and is more designed for multiple users wanting to upload/access the same HDD space. Very cool, but not applicable for many peoples' uses.
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