Torrent Hot Folder

[goldcougar]

I use TED (http://www.ted.nu/) to find .torrent files to download. Is there a hot folder that Boxee watches to have it download torrents?

I would like to be able to have .torrent files to into a folder, and then have Boxee open the torrent and start the download.

[agentlame]

there sure is:
~/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/UserData/Torrents

also, TED is already in boxee:
video > internet > podcasts > culture and art

[ospannero]

I think he meant TED (Torrent Episode Downloader) rather than "TED: Ideas worth spreading".

@goldcougar do you have TED running on the ATV itself?

[agentlame]

oops... guess i should have bothered to click that link. :o

in any case, check out the TED Talks. good stuff.

[goldcougar]

I'm actually running a Mac Mini, so I do have TED running on that machine as well. I've got TED downloading the .torrents to ~/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/UserData/Torrents as suggested, and it works pretty well. Some of the files aren't correctly recognized (so they don't show up in TV section), but most work great.

[jonoville]

Hello - I'm trying to do the same thing as you and I'm able to get torrents automatically started - but I can't find where the actual files are downloaded too. I've searched my hard drive and can't find the files - this is a problem because I can only play things from the download window and not in the videos menu. I have set the downloads path variable but it seems to not work. Any suggestions?

[jonoville]

Sorry - posted a bit too soon.

I found out a few more things that may be useful however. I found out why it was not moving my files after the torrents completed - it was because the Folder I was moving it to had a space in it (ie: it was called /Users/Jono/Movies/TV Downloads/). If you look at the rtorrent.rc code you will see that when you have a space in the name of something you need to put a \ after it in Mac OS in order for the next space to be made part of the file structure and not the next item in the command, so I guess you could say it's a small bug in setting the download directory.

Also by looking at this code I found the folder where the files are temporarily stored while downloading is ~/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/Torrents/.tmp which is a hidden folder. I hope my thumbing around helps someone else out in the future.

Jonathan