This is a tutorial on how to setup automatic .nzb downloading. In this 4 part guide, I’m going to explore how to automatically grab and execute .nzb files through an RSS feed.

1. Install sabnzbdplus.
2. Setup sabnzbdplus.
3. Create your custom episode based RSS feed.
4. Add the RSS feed to sabnzbdplus with download options.

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Requirements

• Internet Connection (check your bandwidth restrictions)
• Server with Ubuntu or Windows installed
• Sabnzbdplus (we will set this up together in part 1)
• A beer or cup of coffee
• a Usenet account.  Check out Giganews!

Windows users:  If you installed sabnzbd on windows, then please skip to part 2.

The first step is to setup sabnzbdplus.  Now, we could go download the package from their website and install it by hand but I’m fairly lazy and prefer to use apt-get for automated installs when possible.  So lets setup a third party repository that was created just for this reason. I got this repository info from http://sabnzbd.wikidot.com/install-ubuntu-repo

Add the repository

Open a terminal, copy and paste the following commands. Use shift+insert to paste inside a terminal window.

This adds the repository

echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jcfp/ppa/ubuntu $(lsb_release -c -s) main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

This adds the gpg key so apt doesn’t complain.

wget -SO- "http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x98703123E0F52B2BE16D586EF13930B14BB9F05F" | sudo apt-key add -

Now lets update our package lists.

sudo apt-get update

Updated yet? Good now we can install sabnzbd

sudo aptitude --with-recommends install sabnzbdplus

Bonus points! Use this next line to install some extra themes

sudo aptitude install sabnzbdplus-theme-plush sabnzbdplus-theme-smpl sabnzbdplus-theme-iphone

Okay, now that everything is installed. I added sabnzbdplus to the startup applications in Ubuntu. To do this go to System-Startup Applications-Add

Command

sabnzbdplus -d

PART 2>>>