This has been built on manbearwiz's flexget-dockerfile project. This project has been altered to run on Alpine 3.3.

Flexget Dockerfile for automated Docker builds.

FlexGet is a multipurpose automation tool for content like torrents, nzbs, podcasts, comics, series, movies, etc. It can use different kinds of sources like RSS-feeds, html pages, csv files, search engines and there are even plugins for sites that do not provide any kind of useful feeds.

There are numerous plugins that allow utilizing FlexGet in interesting ways and more are being added continuously.

FlexGet is extremely useful in conjunction with applications which have watch directory support or provide interface for external utilities like FlexGet.

Note the -v argument, this image will expect the flexget directory to contain a valid config.yml. Flexget will also use this directory for storing the resulting database and log file. I use Flexget to auto add torrent files to my client, becuase of this i do not need the use of other directories to hold torrent files for a watch directory.

sudo docker build -t flexget-image .
sudo docker run -d --name flexget -v /flexget/config:/flexget flexget-image

here is a sample config.yml file. This will cheak the rss feed at 5, 15, 35, 45 past every hour, every day. Once a new item has been found it will be downloaded, and then a connection to transmission will be made and the new item will be added to the default location of your trasmission setup.

schedules:
  - tasks: [feed1]
    schedule:
      minute: 5,15,35,45

templates:
  tv:
    download: '/output/'
    series:
      - some one
	  - show two
    transmission:
      enabled: yes
      host: server
      port: 9091
      username: username
      password: password

tasks:
  feed1:
    rss: 'http://feed.xml'
    template: tv

This will add any files to in this case a transmission server.

To monitor the flexget logs (highly recommended) simply run:

sudo docker logs -f flexget

Sometimes you don't want to wait for the flexget process to kick on from the scheduler. In these cases you can simply enter:

sudo docker exec -it flexget flexget execute

Note the first flexget is the container name, and the second is the CLI command. This will run all tasks regardless of scheduling.

This image is based on python:2.7-Alphine. To cut down the size of the image it will pull from Apline 3.3, and will build python 2.7, and than install trasmissionrpc, and flexget on top.

As of right now, I am looking at anychanges that may be needed, and will move from there.