So, today I could do ironing, or I could work on my old TV show download script to get the latest episodes of Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Veronica Mars and Smallville automatically without Crumpet having to ask me all the time. No contest, it’s the script.

The old BTefnet site doesn’t exist anymore, but fortunately there are plenty of torrent sites with RSS feeds that I can download and parse. I just have to remember how to write Perl…
update: Taking longer than I expected, the RSS feed I’ve chosen is a bit of a dog’s breakfast and doesn’t have a clean layout that I can parse easily. The script removes all the apparently random line breaks in the feed and cleanly splits all the shows into an array. Now all I have to do is search the array for the show names I want. Easy.

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