does RSS work for monitoring long uploads?

[otomo]

If I'm monitoring a multipart rar that is in the process of uploading, can the RSS tab be configured to grab the new parts as they are uploaded?   Or does the RSS tab only monitor and grab new files, not parts?   I'm using nzbindex as the RSS source, and I've not seen any grabs of new parts happening over the morning and afternoon I left it running.   And when I manually refresh, both duplicate and new parts enter the download queue, despite always having "Merge collections with same name on import" selected.

[davidq666]

short answer no

rss does the following:

it imports nzbs acording to filters and it can't distinguish between a nzb containing 1 file and a nzb by the same name containing 300 files. when u clear the rsstab and refresh again the nzb gets imported again with all its content.

so there are two possible ways to kind of get waht u want:

1.) download all uploaded parts, wait refresh rss. u will now get all file old and new. if u have enabled the option "pause alredy downloaded" only the new files will download. repeat until post is fully uploaded. advantage of this method u will get the post quicker because by the time the upload finishes u only have to download the last new posts in stead of the complete post... drawback it quite tedious

2.) enable the option show only complete releases in nzbindex. u will find it under advanced search options. then the post will only be added to the feed once it is fully uploaded and downloading via rss shouldn't be a problem.

[Hecks]

Yes, the switch for your NZBIndex rss feed url is: &complete=1

NZBIndex has a nice and simple method for getting rss urls from search queries: on the website, just enter a search, and then on the results page click the RSS button.

Otherwise, you a need a source that only publishes complete & consolidated posts via RSS, e.g. http://nzbs.org (follow RSS link at bottom).