Anime Snake

Fetches new anime torrents automatically and notifies the user

I wanted a system that would automatically download the anime I cannot watch through (legal) streaming services and send a push to my cellphone when a new episode is available. I made it somewhat extensible.

It fetches the list of torrents from NyaaTorrents and adds torrent to transmission as new episodes are available. When the torrent is complete, it send a notification through PushBullet's API to my cell phone.

It scrapes the web page with Beautiful Soup 4. It uses transmission-rpc to communicate with a transmission daemon. It uses a SQLite database to store information about torrents. It's configurable through a YAML configuration file. It uses the JSON library to post requests to PushBullet's API.

Dependencies

• JSON
• PyYAML
• sqlite3
• transmissionrpc
• urllib3

Configuration

Configuration looks like this:

pushservice: 'pushbullet' or 'pushjet'
pushbullet:
	device:
	token:
pushjet:
	secret:
series:
        - subber: 'HorribleSubs'
          name: 'Urara Meirochou'
          quality: '720p'

pushbullet.device and pushbullet.token are respectively the device identifier and Authorization Token used for the PushBullet API. pushjet.secret is the service secret for pushjet. series is a list, so you can put as many series as you want to download.

You need to create a SQLite database file called anime.db beforehand. Use this query to create the episodes table:

CREATE TABLE episodes(show text, number int, torhash text, complete int);

To Do

There are many things I should do to make this system truly extensible (and not just an hackish scrapper coded overnight)

• Truly separate the scrapper, the torrent client, the database and the notifier part of the program
• Make the update delay and other variables configurable
• Properly document dependencies