New feature: personal bookmarks, remote downloading

Hi there,

A quick update about a new and cool feature we just implemented: personal bookmarks! From now on, logged-in users can bookmark their favorite torrents.

Bookmark button on Mininova

After clicking the “Add to bookmarks” button, a torrent will be added to the list of bookmarked torrents available at “My bookmarks“. Bookmarking is convenient if you want to save a torrent so you can quickly find it back.

Another useful (and more powerful) scenario is remote downloading.

How does it work? In most BitTorrent clients (for example: uTorrent) you are able to poll an RSS feed. Go to the “My bookmarks” page we just described, and copy your “personal feed” URL. In uTorrent, click the “RSS Downloader” button and add the feed URL from your clipboard.

Adding a feed in uTorrent

Now, go to “Favorites”, add a new filter (the name doesn’t matter) and enter “*” as “Filter” and choose a download folder at “Save in”. You’re done, click “Close” to make :)

Adding a filter in uTorrent

Now, if you’re at work and see the latest album of your favorite featured artist, just hit the “Add to bookmarks” button. The torrent is added to your bookmarks and personal feed, and within a few minutes your BitTorrent client at home will refresh the feed and notice the new torrent. Your client will then start downloading the torrent in the background, so when you come home you can listen to the album right away. No need for WebUI’s, port forwarding, and exposing local computers in your home network.

Do you like this feature? Or would you like to see any changes? Please let us know in the comments. We might not answer all comments, but we surely read them!

Thanks!

103 Responses to “New feature: personal bookmarks, remote downloading”


  • This is a great feature. Thanks!

    Is it possible to add a button to the search summary page to bookmark a torrent? This is to save the step of opening up the details page of the torrent? What I am thinking of is a button similar to the download button.

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  • It would be cool if there a way to know if a download in “My Bookmarks” was completed

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  • Wow, followed the instructions, and it was less than five seconds after adding the feed and favourite to utorrent and a pop-up tooltip came up with “downloading torrent from RSS feed” … amazing!

    This is fantastic, thank you very much!

  • awesome features, i love the remote dl stuff

  • Great feature.
    Thanks Mininova!

  • Great info – keep up the great work.

  • Wow… I really love this feature.. It really is one of the coolest I have seen with torrents.

    This could go bit more further. For example if I can see the status of Torrents being queued from my home computer, that I have scheduled from Mininova, then I have more control over my priorities for downloading.

    This is a wonderful work by Mininova team and I wish all the best.

  • I totally agree with xintox, having a little Ajax button on every row in the search results that lets you add torrents to bookmarks without reloading the page would be amazing.

    My suggestion: Add, next to the green get arrow in the search results, a little icon that’s a green B+ (add to bookmarks) that when clicked and the Ajax reply received changes to a red B- (remove from bookmarks).

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  • The personal bookmark is a brilliant idea. I like that.

    But remote download with uTorrent is much simpler than explained here. Just add your personal feed into the RSS feed list on the linker side of uTorrent, remember to check “Automatically download…” and all done. Any new torrent will be started.

    Thanks

  • This sounds like a fun feature. I’ve several times been remote and have found a torrent I need and my only way of adding it is sending it to my Windows machine (which isn’t 100% configured for efficient torrenting) by the uTorrent WebUI (which also has a risk of people seeing the IP of my router.) I like this because then it’ll work on my OSX machine.

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  • Love the feature but i have a question. I use a number of different feeds in the Utorrent RSS downloader to broadcatch TV shows. I have filters to DL the shows I want. When I add the Mininova personal feed filter with the “*” filter Utorrent downloads everything on all the TV feeds, regardless of if its in a favorites filter or not.

    any way to fix this?

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  • there is another good BT client called Miro which is mainly used for videos, but is *great* for subscribing to RSS torrent feeds like these

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  • Nice stuff,helpful to me……..

  • I love it.

    Another feature that would be useful is a bookmark feature for my “favorite users/uploaders” :)

  • Really useful, my wife loves old movies and now she can just bookmark the ones she likes (using my name) anytime and they’ll start downloading.
    Like the suggestion about adding a fav uploader/user feature.

  • Hi, i am using utorrent 1.8.1 (Build 12639)
    I do not get the RSS Feed Option. I only have the Favorite And History Option.
    Can anyone please help me.

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  • I second @joelpt and @huring! The “Added” field is when the torrent was actually added to Mininova. On the other hand, the RSS of bookmarked torrents only show 20 entries.

    The problem is when you add a old torrent (a torrent published long ago on Mininova): the added date may be so old that it will not appear in the 20 1st enties of the RSS, so it’ll never be downloaded by the remote uTorrent!

    Actually, as other say, the bookmarks RSS should be sorted by the 20 last torrents added by the user. Hope it’ll be like this soon.

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  • Add a bookmark button to the search results for logged in users.

  • Hey,

    Atm not all bookmarks come true…

    Cheerz,

  • Could you add the bookmarking function to userpages, so we can automatically download new torrents of our favorite users?
    example: http://www.mininova.org/user/aXXo

    Thanks a lot…

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