Ansible Role: Transmission RSS

Installs transmission-rss for Debian/Ubuntu linux machines. Also installs a init script under /etc/init.d/.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values:

transmission_rss_version: 0.1.26

The transmission-rss gem package version to install.

transmission_rss_service_name: transmission-rss

The service name that will be used for the init script, .pid and log files. This allows multiple instances of the transmission-rss daemon to be installed on the same machine.

transmission_rss_config_path: /etc/transmission-rss.conf

The configuration file path.

transmission_rss_config:
  feeds:
    - url: http://showrss.info/user/0.rss?magnets=true&namespaces=true&name=clean&quality=null&re=null
      download_path: /home/transmission-rss/Downloads
  update_interval: 600
  add_paused: false
  server:
    host: localhost
    port: 9091
    rpc_path: /transmission/rpc
  login:
    username: transmission
    password: transmission
  log_target: '/var/log/{{ transmission_rss_service_name }}.log'
  privileges:
    user: transmission-rss
    group: transmission-rss
  fork: false
  pid_file: false

The content of the transmission-rss configuration. For configuration examples refer to the transmission-rss GitHub page.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook (using default config)

- hosts: media-server
  roles:
    - tkanemoto.transmission-rss

Example Playbook (custom configuration)

- hosts: media-server
  roles:
    - tkanemoto.transmission-rss
      transmission_rss_config:
        feeds:
          - url: http://showrss.info/user/0.rss?magnets=true&namespaces=true&name=clean&quality=null&re=null
            download_path: /home/transmission-rss/Downloads
            regexp:
              - matcher: '[Ss]ilicon[. ][Vv]alley'
                download_path: '/mnt/share/media/TV/Silicon Valley'
              - matcher: 'BBC'
                download_path: '/mnt/share/media/TV/BBC'
        update_interval: 3600
        add_paused: false
        server:
          host: localhost
          port: 9091
          rpc_path: /transmission/rpc
        login:
          username: transmission
          password: transmission
        log_target: '/var/log/transmission-rss.log'
        privileges:
          user: transmission-rss
          group: transmission-rss
        fork: false
        pid_file: false

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2016 by Takeshi Kanemoto.