Direct RSS feeds

As you might know, all our RSS feeds point to the “General info” pages of torrents. However, this is not very convenient when using our feeds in combination with torrent clients that require direct links to the .torrent files. We got quite a few mails from people that asked for an option to let the RSS feed link directly to the .torrent files.

So how do you change your feed to point to the .torrent instead of the “General info” page? Well, all you have to do is add “?direct” (when it’s the first “argument”) or “&direct” to your RSS feed!

So the global feed would become (note the question mark):
http://www.mininova.org/rss.xml?direct

All other cases require a ampersand:
http://www.mininova.org/rss.xml?cat=8&direct

Even though this flag was around for quite some time, not many people probably knew about it, hopefully this post changes that :)

25 Responses to “Direct RSS feeds”


  1. 1 boubacar

    je veux ares

  2. 2 boubacar

    alors ca va ce matin Si t’aimer est une folie, alors je resterai folle toute ma vie Amnésie : état qui permet à une femme qui a vécu un accouchement de faire à nouveau l’amour Il y a dans la jalousie plus d’amour-propre que d’amour Les regards sont les premiers billets doux de l’amour. Les seuls amis dignes d’intérêt sont ceux que l’on appelle à quatre heures du matin L’amour est une clé pour ouvrir et non fermer A force de faire semblant d’être amoureux, on le devient pour de vrai L’amour, c’est l’homme inachevé

  3. 3 The Webmaster

    Mininova thats seriously cool ^^ always love your work

    from
    The webmaster

  4. 4 gate

    Wow, c quand meme assez profond qui aurait cru que ce fut possible…

  5. 5 asdf

    pourqoui est-ce que tout le monde parle en francais??

    Why the hell is everyone talking/ responding in french??

  6. 6 nguyenvan dat

    thanks you!

  7. 7 John

    Is there any way to set the order of the rss items, for instance by number of seeds? I tried adding /seeds on the the end but no good…

    any ideas?

  8. 8 Dan

    That’s not how RSS feeds work, it’s supposed to be the order in which it is released, what good would your automatic RSS downloader do if it was always in the order of seeds.

  9. 9 Laura

    Wonderful feature, now the only thing I miss is an RSS Feed of my search results sorted by seeders or leechers. Would you ever do that for me someday?…

    hugs & kisses,

    Laura

  10. 10 Laura

    (for Dan: it would definitely do good i think, because you could automatically download only most popoular releases or the ones with a good leechers/seeders ratio, i’ve seen that other torrent sites implement this feature, but not my favourite one yet..)

  11. 11 jrd865

    Sometimes…I leave my computer for a week or so during a holiday to go back home and forget to temporarily close the windows updats that will restart my computer. In this case the torrent client will be turned off and hense the feed will not be functional. I was wondering if in the advanced search section you could possibly search by specific dates of the releases so I could catch up on the files that have been uploaded since before the turn-off.

    Deeply appreciated

  12. 12 green

    merci!! :)

  13. 13 nico

    what about a RSS from a search, like for example : http://www.mininova.org/rss/lost fr
    it doesn’t work with “?direct” neither “&direct”…

    apparemment cela ne marche pas avec un flusx rss qui correspond a une recherche, comme “http://www.mininova.org/rss/lost fr “

  14. 14 Niek

    @nico:

    Thanks for noticing! This is fixed now, use ?direct with the search feeds :)

  15. 15 Devin

    I was wondering if you guys could implement the same “Search RSS” functionality, but for specific user uploads. I use the search rss for “axxo” but there are so many fake uploads that I would much prefer have a feed that only lists the items that the user “axxo” uploads. is this possible?

  16. 16 Tom

    I definitely second Devin’s request for feeds for a certain user. There are a couple of really wonderful guys that dedicate their time to releasing high quality content - axxo and skirgsk among others - and an RSS feed for their torrents would be great. C’mon, it can’t be that hard, but would be an extremely useful feature.
    –Tom

  17. 17 Mer Ner

    To get a feed of all official axxo torrents use the following:

    http://www.mininova.org/rss.xml?user=axxo&direct

    This is the feed for torrents uploaded by the user axxo. Alternately, use the page:

    http://www.mininova.org/user/axxo

  18. 18 Devin

    Thanks Mer Ner! They should add a button on the user’s page for this, like on the search results page.

    Either way, works perfectly, and the direct option is also very handy.

  19. 19 Stoned Rock

    Thanks Mer Ner,
    I was looking for exactly this info! Thank you

  20. 20 Vicky

    PLZ give me daily torrents

  21. 21 Vicky

    thanks

  22. 22 shraga

    Is it possible to get the number of seeds/leechers and maybe comments in the rss feed ?

  23. 23 steve

    Is it possible to REMOVE the number of seeds/leechers in the rss feed ? It makes my utorrent think there is a whole new torrent every time the torrent refreshes with a new number of seeds/leechers.

  24. 24 Sir

    Thanx Mer Ner !
    :) :) :)

  25. 25 Anonymous

    manele

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