Receive mobile notifications when new episodes of your favorite TV series are released.
It is assumed that new episodes of popular series will be found on The Pirate Bay (TPB). This script, then, looks for episodes on TPB and notifies you if a new episode is found from a TV series that you are tracking.
You should follow these few steps to correctly set up Eyepatch.
- This script definitely works on Linux, probably works on macOS, and maybe works on Windows (with some tweaks).
- You need to have jq installed on your computer.
- You need to install the ntfy app on your phone.
First, you need to define the values of three variables inside eyepatch.sh:
ntfy_topic: The name of the topic you will subscribe to in the ntfy app to receive the notifications. Choose a topic name that is unique to you, as anyone who knows this name can view or send notifications to this topic!track_file: The full path of the file containing the list of TV series to track.log_file: The full path of the file where the logs will be written.
Second, you need to subscribe to the same topic name as ntfy_topic, on the ntfy app on your phone.
Finally, you will want to run this script periodically (ideally once per day), either as a cron job or with a systemd service.
The file you have assigned to the variable track_file should follow the following format:
- One TV series per line.
- On each line: The name of the series, followed by the season number and the episode number you want to start tracking at.
If you want track Only Murders in the Building starting with S02E04, then the matching line in track_file for that series should be:
Only Murders in the Building 2 4
If you want to track The Rings of Power, a yet unreleased series (at the time of this writing), then the matching line in track_file should just be the series name:
The Rings of Power
Take note that the way torrents are generally named on TPB, you should track The Rings of Power rather than The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.