Download manager - how add???

[Hammer]

Ok, a third newbie question: how do I get the d/l mgr to download anything?

Tried for instance (just to test the functionality, the files would of course have been deleted when I saw it was working) this file since it had a lot of seeders:

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3829294/The ... p.XviD-aAF

Pasted that into the download field and pushed the globe. (Add from URL)

Nothing, zip, zilch, nada is happening.

Como?

And another thing; where do the files end up? I can't find anywhere how to configure that.

*sigh* I hate being ignorant.

[johannes]

Hammer,

You should add the link to the actual torrent file, in your case. Right click the "download this torrent" and choose copy link, and paste that link.

I agree, this isn't obvious. We are working on improving the users manual on this.

Good luck!

[bubbalibre]

Hi Hammer,

Johannes is right. The link you used is just a plain html page. The matching torrent will be : http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/382929 ... PB.torrent

Regards,

[Hammer]

Ok, then I understand, thanks.

A follow-up question: How hard is it to do what I tried to do?

To be precise; pasting an URL an getting the D/L manager to retrieve all torrents on that page.

Would be a sweet function I think.

Cheers.

[bubbalibre]

Hi Hammer,

What you suggest is close to impossible for every website. It could only be added website by website.

Most of the time, the links to torrent's files do not have a .torrent extension.
Here is the web page of a torrent on Mininova:

• http://www.mininova.org/tor/914144

And here is the link to the actual torrent file:

• http://www.mininova.org/get/914144

Here is the web page of a torrent on Pirate Bay:

• http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3818954/ubuntu-7.04-server-i386.iso

The link to the actual torrent will be:

• http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/381895 ... PB.torrent[/b]

If you know the structure of the website, you can parse a webpage and, sometime, guess the link to the torrent itself. But it doesn't always work...

Anyway you'll need another form on the web-admin interface, saying something like 'parse this url': you don't really want to parse everything you download...

I hope I was clear, I'm pretty tired...
Regards

[bubbalibre]

Hi again,

I'm sorry I just saw your second question.

And another thing; where do the files end up? I can't find anywhere how to configure that.

The downloads are in your profile on the Bubba, in a folder named 'downloads'. As Bubba's working with GNU/Linux, it has a *nix file system. If your username is hammer, you'll find the downloads there:

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/home/hammer/downloads

Regards again.

[Hammer]

Thanks bubbalibre, I understand.

Great little download hack btw!