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Download TV shows automatically

I while ago I set out to automate the process of downloading TV shows, instead of going through the usual process of finding the torrent, adding to uTorrent GUI on my homeserver, and then filing the download in the correct folder.

I followed this post on Lifehacker.com – which seemed like it would be ideal. I installed TED on the homeserver and thought I had it configured to automatically download the torrent file… not quite. I found TED to be quite buggy, and would often just hang with no downloads – even though they were available on the source website. This brought me on to another application – Automatic