Azureus and Mininova Bookmarks

17 Jul 2008 – Madrid

Last week, Mininova has released a bookmark system for its users, it would allow remote downloading, but information are missing to configure Azureus/Vuze properly, here is a mini tutorial.

You can imagine the reation of channels on Mininova, give your feed to your friends, and all start to download the same torrents at the same time to improve your speed and share the good content!

Mininova configuration

Create a mininova account, or use your own to login
When logged in, bookmark icon will appear next to the torrent link. Example: Auberge Espagnole
Click on the bookmark link, it will be add on your bookmarks page

Azureus configuration

Be sure to have the last version of Azureus

Installing RSSFeed Scanner plugin

Open Azureus, and go in menu: File → Plugins → Installation Wizard…

Select “By list from Sourceforge.net”, and select the plugin RSS Feed Scanner in the list, click Next and Install

Configuring RSSFeed Scanner plugin

Go in menu: File → Plugins → RSSFeed Scanner, select “Options” tab

Adding a RSS Feed URL

Click on the “+” next to the top box

Give it a name
Set the URL you’ll find on your bookmarks page on mininova (called Your personal RSS feed)
press “Enabled”
and save

Adding a Filter

Click on the “+” next to the bottom box

Give it a name
Set the filter to “^http”
Select “Filter is a Regular Expression”
Deselect “Filter searches title”
Set state to “Forced Download” if you wanted your torrent to start automaticly
Set Feed to your mininova feed your mininova feed you’ve just added to Azureus
Set type to “None”
Press “Enabled”
and save

Go inside tab “Status”, and you’ll see your bookmarks there, starting to download.