Help

The application does the following:

every <specified interval> search a <feed> for all the <search terms> and pop a notification if matches are found.

So the easiest way to get it up and running is as follows:

  1. Go into the Feeds screen and add one or more feeds, the options for feeds are:
    • Name – This is just a name you can identify it by.
    • URL – This should point to the RSS 2.0 compliant feed form the torrent site.
    • Interval – This is the interval (in seconds) that the feed must be queried.
  2. Return to the main screen and into Search Terms, add a search term. Simple words will be compared as is (case insensitive spaces and all); if you want more complex searches, regular expressions are supported.
  3. Return to the main screen, open the menu and click Sart Service (select again to stop). This will start the background service that will periodically check if a feed should be searched, based on it’s interval, and if it’s due for a search, compare all the search terms with the current feed contents. If matches are found a notification is popped to the notification bar where you can open it to view your matches.
  4. In the Matches screen, long click on a match to either view more info for the torrent, or open it. Open will present you with one to three options, all of which will open a URL, dependent on what the feed has available:
    • URL – This is the actual link to the .torrent file
    • Enclose URL – Essentially the same as URL
    • Permalink – This should be a unique url pointing at a web page for the torrent, use this as a last resort to hopefully find a working link to the .torrent file.
  5. You will need to have something like TorrentFu or Transdroid installed to process the actual .torrent file, these will allow you to forward them to a torrent downloader like uTorrent or Transmission, see their respective help on how to do that. Please note that, while I think these are awesome applications, I have no control over them, and as such take no responsibility for them. If you have a problem with them please contact their respective developers.

Some other things of note:

  1. Matches can also be ignored by selecting them in the Matches screen, opening the menu and tapping Ignore.
  2. There are some basic preferences you can access via the main screen menu, use these to customize your experience.
  3. Pirating of software is illegal in most countries, this tool is not meant to enable you to do that.

So that’s the basic functioning of the application. It’s a very simple very application designed to fill a specific need, which I believe it does reasonably well. If you have any issues with it or can think of ways to improve it, please feel free to let me know.