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coach0742 edited this page Jan 9, 2015 · 5 revisions

#Installation and use:

##Linux:

###Pre-requisites:

  • Python 2.7

###Installation and use:

  1. Create and navigate to TV Show directory.

  2. Clone the repo with:
    git clone https://github.com/coach0742/simple-tv-api .simple-tv-api
    (. is added at the beginning to hide the folder from the file structure.)

  3. Enter the folder:
    cd .simple-tv-api

  4. Edit download.py with your favorite editor and add login information for auto-login.

  5. Run:
    python download.py

  6. Put script into cron to download episodes at specified intervals.
    For example:

    0 0,3,6,9,12,15,18,21 * * * /usr/bin/python /media/hdd/tv/.simple-tv-api/download.py

This would run the script every 3 hours starting at midnight.

  1. When comfortable that downloads are working properly and the files are playing, you can change AUTO_DELETE from False to True to automatically delete downloaded recordings from the simple.tv after completion.
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