How To use Cookies with RSSFeed Scanner & Azureus

For those of you who use bit torrent to download various tv shows, podcasts, videocasts or any other type of periodicly updated media there is now a way to automate the process. I use azureus for my bit torrent download client and have added the RSSFeed Scanner Plugin which you can learn about how to install from zeropaid. While they certainly do a great job of telling you how to install the plugin they leave out the details of how to download from a site that requires a login. I’ll explain how this can be done with cookies.

How to download with RSSFeed Scanner on a site that requires a login

1. Site that require a login many times use cookies to store your session so that after you login your credentials are remembered as you browse the site. The bit torrent site you are using requires a login and does not use cookies this method won’t help
2. Download Firefox if you don’t have it.
3. Download the Web Developer Toolbar for firefox. This is handy for all kinds of hacks!!!
4. Once installed, visit your favorite bit torrent site with firefox and login
5. Click the cookies tab on the developer toolbar and choose “View Cookie Information”
6. Now a list of cookies will come up each with various data fields. Among all the various cookies we need to find th one used by the site that is your user name or uid. There is no standard name. For demonoid.com the user id is stored in a cookie called “uid” and the password hash is stored in a cookie named “uhsh”
7. copy and paste the user and password name and value pairs into the form: name=value;name=value In the case of demonoid.com it was of the form: uid=XXXXXX;uhsh=YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY The hash was even longer then that actually and had many HTML encoded charaters as a password hash tends to be.
8. Go into azureus’s RSSFeed Scanner and select or add a url in the option tab.
9. Check the option for passing cookies “Pass Cookies’s” and paste your string in the box.
10. Click the status tab and double click one of the files to see if you can download it. With any luck it will start downloading.

A Note About Cookie Expiration

Some cookies maybe set to expire rather quickly after login. You can check the expire time when you view your cookie in step 6. If the expiration is anytime in the near furture you will have to redo this hack again after that date. Luckily demonoid.com was set for 2011 so I’ve still got some time

Other Sites Cookie Info

As there may be some interest in having this info readily available I will compile a list of cookie info from other bit torrent sites as I find them or you submit them.

Demonoid.com uid=XXXXXX;uhsh=YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

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