Project summary
RS TV Show Tracker is a software designed for TV show addicts – by a TV show addict.
The software allows you to keep track of all the TV shows you watch, by notifying you when a new episode was aired.
Key features of the software:
Full Aero interface and support lots of Windows 7 features, like progress bar in the taskbar.1
Display summaries and screen captures of the episodes for a quick recap.
Automatically mark TV shows as seen as you watch them in your video player!2
Search for torrents, Usenet and RapidShare links.
Search for subtitles in more than 30 languages and download them automatically near the video file.
Search for online videos on Hulu, BBC iPlayer, Megavideo and other services.
Search for downloaded episodes on your hard drive or network shares blazingly fast!3
Organize your downloaded TV show files with the built-in intelligent file renamer.
Create symbolic links to the downloaded files instead of renaming them, this way you can continue seeding them!4
Display fun statistics like the total time you’ve wasted watching TV shows.
Recommends you TV shows based on what you’re watching right now!
Open source software! Fork it, fix it, tailor it to your own needs!
1 The software only runs on Windows 7.
2 This is accomplished by monitoring the open file handles of your video player. If an episode is open for more than 10 minutes, it’s marked as seen.
3 Scanning a 1 TB local drive containing 11,016 files and 783 folders takes only 0.23 seconds!
4 This feature only works when the target directory is on an NTFS partition.
Site support
The software supports the following sites:
TV databases
Fully featured databases – shows episode summaries and screen captures
TVRage
The TV DB
TV.com
IMDb
AniDB
Wikipedia 1*
Episode-listing only
EPGuides – with TVRage data
EPGuides – with TV.com data
Download links
Torrents
Tv Torrents Ro
BroadcasTheNet
TvTorrents.com
TvStore
TheBox*
UKNova*
TheEmpire*
BitMeTV 2
nCore
bitHUmen
FileList.ro
BiT-HDTV
TV Vault*
ScienceHD*
The Pirate Bay
isoHunt
Demonoid
EzTV 3
Usenet
BinSearch
NZBClub
HTTP links
DirectDownload.tv
ReleaseLog
SceneReleases
Katz Downloads 4
PhazeDDL
Zunox
Twilight
PreDB release checks
ORLYDB
PreScene
Subtitles
Addic7ed
Subscene
OpenSubtitles
SuperSubtitles
Hosszupuska Subtitles
Podnapisi
Online videos
Hulu
BBC iPlayer
iTunes
Amazon Instant Video
SideReel – contains Megavideo and other online video links
Google search
Recommendation services
RS TV Show Recommendation – generated using people with similar taste
RS TV Show Recommendation – generated using genre and popularity filtering
TasteKid
Internally used search engines
Google Web Search API 5
Bing Search API 2.0
DuckDuckGo
* Features marked with a red asterisk are not yet available in the downloadable binary, however, they are available in the git repository.
1 Wikipedia support is very experimental and not yet selectable by users; every TV show has it’s own table and it’s hard to extract an episode listing.
2 BitMeTV’s support has been deprecated due to their decision to globally ban a whole country. Don't click here.
3 EzTV is currently not included because eztv.it’s search is bogus.
4 Unfortunately Katz.cd was hacked and there’s a good chance it won’t come back online. More infos here.
5 Unfortunately Google has deprecated all of their web search APIs, so while they still work, all methods which use it should be ported in time to Bing.
Future plans
Database synchronization – some if it is already implemented in the git repository
Run a light HTTP server
RSS for aired TV show announcements, torrent and NZB files
iCalendar for TV show air dates