Managing tv series from the console

I’ve still not posted about my awesome terminal configuration, but I’ll be making that completly irrelevant today with my awesome way to handle tv series in the terminal.

First of all, we’ll need deluge, flexget, tree and subdownloader, all of them are available at debian’s standard repository

apt-get install subdownloader flexget tree deluged deluge-console

Just to clarify, I’m going to use a online rss service to get my torrents updates, and deluge with ui console for controlling its download, so, we make ourselves a showrss account and we add all our favourite series

Then get our rss link and create a flexget config like this one:

presets:
  tv:
    regexp:
      accept:
        - torrent
    deluge: yes
tasks:
  showrss:
    rss: http://showrss.karmorra.info/rss.php?user_id=104638&hd=0&proper=0&namespaces=true&magnets=true
    preset: tv      

For that, we have to start deluged first, then flexget, and finally get the subtitles

deluged & { flexget && sleep 1m &&  subdownloader -cli -l en; }  &

Personally, after downloading something I put it into its series name’s folder, after I watch it, I classify into its season. This way I can keep a clean tree of series chapters pending to watch with a simple tree command:

tree -L 2 -P "mp4|mpg|*avi"

And, if i want a random series…

a=(); mplayer "$(find ${a[ $[ ( $RANDOM % ${#a[@]} ) + 1 ] - 1 ]}/|tail -n1)"