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-CouchPotato Server
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+CouchPotato Server
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+CouchPotato (CP) is an automatic NZB and torrent downloader. You can keep a "movies I want"-list and it will search for NZBs/torrents of these movies every X hours.
+Once a movie is found, it will send it to SABnzbd or download the torrent to a specified directory.
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