RSS Torrent List from Onlinetvrecorder.com

Moin

Onlinetvrecorder disabled the good old RSS where I can get the list of my torrents of recorded movies. Unfortunatelly the new RSS link requires a session cookie what is not so easy with a bash script. Here is a small solution how to enable the automatic download of the RSS stream in order to download the feeds automatically.

First get an session cookie for www.onlinetvrecorder.com and store it into a local file.

wget \
    --save-cookies ~/.cookies/onlinetvrecorder \
    --keep-session-cookies \
    --post-data "email=name%40provider.com&pass=whatever&checkbox_remember=checkbox_remember&btn_login=Login&do=login" \
    -O - \
    http://www.onlinetvrecorder.com/index.php \
    > /dev/null

With this command you store the onlinetvrecorder session key to a file what you can use later on to download the RSS feed. “keep-session-cookies” are important because the key is only valid in the session. Replace “name”, “provider.com”  and “whatever” with your personal data. the “%40″ is url code for @.

wget -o /dev/null -O - --load-cookies ~/.cookies/onlinetvrecorder "http://www.onlinetvrecorder.com/rss/rss.php?hash=hashcode&userid=id"

Also replace “hashcode” and “id” with your personal data. You can see it in the browser when you check the RSS feed in your browser. Thats all. I think the uTorrent or other trackers can deal with a local file to parse. So just use a cronjob to store this file from time to time to local disc and let uTorrent do the rest.

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How to export display via SSH after sudo su

Moin
Just figured out together with DrScofield how to export the Display via an SSH tunnel after changing user to root via sudo. And hey it sound trivial but was not easy to find out. Here is the step by step way.

1. ssh -X server #as normal user
2. xterm #for testing if export display as normal user works
3. echo $DISPLAY #write it down
4. xauth #enters the shell of xauth
   1. list # find the line with the display number from step 3 for me it was “wpsvm054/unix:12 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 071df2e12cfff0ed75fd0af5869665f7″ remember the first part of it
   2. quit #to leave the shell
5. xauth extract filename system/unix:12 # the line from step 4.1
6. sudo su - # to become root
7. xauth merge filename # filename from step 5
8. export DISPLAY=:nummer.0 #Displaynumber from step 3 resp. 4.1
9. xterm #for testing

Hope it works on other systems too.

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Convert

Played around a little bit with ImageMagick and specially with the convert command.

Nice feature is to add Text on a picture like a watermark:

convert -font \
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/luximri.ttf \
-pointsize 160 -fill black -draw "text 0,590 'Text auf Spike'" \
P1020049.JPG spike.jpg

or make a border arround a picture

convert -border 10x10 -bordercolor "#000000" P1020049.JPG spike2.jpg

Nothing special but was nice to play with it.

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