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Well I guess since weatstraw went MIA???? where are you? I will have to post something.

I have been wanting to find a way to manage my torrents in a more savvy way lately. I have aproximatly 15 shows that I watch and always want to start my downloads as soon as a new torrent has been posted.

One of my previous methods to manage the torrent files was to use a rss aggregator, apply filters to the feeds I subscribe to and then periodically check up on the aggregator to see what it has found. If anyone else is doing something similar you know how tedious and unreliable this can be.

My other method was to use a rss plugin for Azureus and tell it wild card filters to match the shows that I want it to snag. It seems like no matter how good your regex expressions are, you will always get duplicate torrents or if your expressions are too tight, you will miss some torrents that you may really want.

So I was sick over a weekend and really had a bug to write some code and to solve my little dilema; one sick weekend later I had Azureus RSSTray. The main idea is that you subscribe to your rss feeds and as new torrents are discovered through polling, you are notified by a little tray icon. Once you have a torrent discovered, you can choose to post the torrent to your azureus server which will que the torrent for download. Alternatively you can choose to remove the torrent from your list and never see that torrent again.

RSSTray is not by any means complete, but it is at a fairly stable state. I have started a sourceforge site for it (mostly for the free SVN account) and a public site. All in all I am pretty pleased with what I did in a short amount of time and mostly I just like to see notifications of new torrents while I am at work.