add torrent to transmission from rss feed and sort into subdirectory based on file name

pyTorrentFeedDownloader.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import feedparser, subprocess, urllib2, re, os, libtorrent

out_dir_base = ''
logfile = ''
rss=''

feed = feedparser.parse(rss)
log = open( logfile, 'r+' )
log_cont = log.read()

for item in feed['items']:
  if not item['link'] in log_cont:
    torr = urllib2.urlopen(item['link']).read()
    torr_dec = libtorrent.bdecode(torr)
    info = libtorrent.torrent_info(torr_dec)
    m = re.match( '([\w\d\(\)\.]+)\.([\d]{4}|[sS][0-9]{1,2}[eE][0-9]{1,2})', info.name() )
    down_dir = os.path.join( out_dir_base,  m.group(1).replace('.', ' ') )
    
    if not os.path.exists(down_dir):
      os.makedirs(down_dir)
    
    subprocess.call( ['transmission-remote', 'localhost', '-a', item['link'], '-w', down_dir] )
    log.write( item['link'] + '\n' )

log.close