12 - Combining all your TV shows into one RSS feed. rss

Well tonight I wanted to be able to have my shows summed up for me so I wouldn’t forget when to watch them. So I started looking around a bit. The site http://tvrss.net/ is great for what I was looking for.

I started by going to the search page, and since I know EZTV is a big tv show Distro group, I limited it to them, so that I wouldn’t get more than two showings of a tv show each. (Sometimes they release some from different release groups, so if I had them from all available distro groups for all release groups, the feed would be a mess.)

From there you want to enter the show, we’ll use the example House. Once you hit enter, you will notice that Desperate Housewives shows up as well, you will want to click the “exact” button, so that only House shows up. (You could use this for all shows, but I’m using House to show you might come into this problem.)

So from there, you want to click the “Search Based RSS Feed” to get the feed link. Mine starts out as:

http://tvrss.net/search/index.php?distribution_group=eztv&show_name=House&show_name_exact=true&filename=&date=&quality=&release_group=&mode=rss

But since I don’t want a huge link, I took out all of the useless parts and shortened my link to:

http://tvrss.net/search/index.php?distribution_group=eztv&show_name=House&show_name_exact=true&mode=rss

So there I have my link. Now if you want to have all of your TV shows into a single rss feed, instead of multiple ones, this next part will help you a lot; if not then I’m happy to help someone who didn’t know how to get RSS Feeds of their shows releases :)

So multiple links to one RSS Feed, this is where FeedJumbler comes into play. I suggest creating a login so that you can save all of your links (Takes like 15 seconds, no email required.) From there you simply put one link on each line. And it will end up coming out as something like this:
http://tvrss.net/search/index.php?distribution_group=eztv&show_name=Prison+Break&mode=rss
http://tvrss.net/search/index.php?distribution_group=eztv&show_name=scrubs&mode=rss
http://tvrss.net/search/index.php?distribution_group=eztv&show_name=Family+Guy&mode=rss
http://tvrss.net/search/index.php?distribution_group=eztv&show_name=The+Unit&mode=rss
http://tvrss.net/search/index.php?distribution_group=eztv&show_name=American%20Dad&mode=rss
http://tvrss.net/search/index.php?distribution_group=eztv&show_name=Smallville&mode=rss
http://tvrss.net/search/index.php?distribution_group=eztv&show_name=supernatural&mode=rss
http://tvrss.net/search/index.php?distribution_group=eztv&show_name=shark&mode=rss
http://tvrss.net/search/index.php?distribution_group=eztv&show_name=NCIS&mode=rss
http://tvrss.net/search/index.php?distribution_group=eztv&show_name=The+Tudors&mode=rss
http://tvrss.net/search/index.php?distribution_group=eztv&show_name=House&show_name_exact=true&mode=rss

Once you’re all done there, click OK, and then click on the RSS Feed button which will bring you to something like a normal RSS Feed, but will have all of those feeds in one go. Put the link in your favorite RSS Reader such as Google Reader (Web) or RSSReader (SysTray).

Thanks for reading :) Comments welcome!


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