How to Create RSS Feeds of Torrent Links and Download Them Remotely

Let’s say you are browsing the web on a public computer and spotted a list of torrent files in a torrent search engine. The problem comes when the computer you are using does not have any torrent client or you do not have  the time to download them because of large file size. In such situations, Reactorfeed might help.

Reactorfeed lets you add a list of torrent links to create a custom RSS feed. When the feed is created, you can simply mount that feed url in any torrent client and resume the download.

Create rss feed from torrent links

Download Torrents Remotely With a Torrent client and Reactor Feed

Suppose you have your home computer running and want to download a list of torrent files to your home computer remotely. Here is a step by step guide to achieve the same

1. Go to Reactor feed and add the links of all the torrent files that you want to download. Copy the URL of the feed.

2. You have to configure the torrent client used in your home computer to download files from the above feed URL. To do that, open your torrent client and add the RSS feed that you obtained in step 1. Make sure to select “Automatically download all items published in feed”

Download torrents on a remote computer using Rss feed

3. Now whenever you want to download a torrent file in your home computer, simply add the torrent link in the Rss feed that you created in step 1. The home computer running the torrent client will periodically check for newer links in the RSS feed and if found, the download will start on its own.

Tip: Download torrents in USB using a portable torrent client.

You can make the RSS feed public which will allow your friends to download the same torrents at the same time from different computers. Thanks Lifehacker.

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Written by on Friday, February 5th, 2010

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