FlexGet-Transmission userID/Password not working

@DiskSpinner wrote:

I have written a script in bash that covers everything I want to do from file renaming, location sorting, and metadata tagging (very useful to permit drag-and-drop to iDevices), but am frustrated with one remaining issue in FlexGet, which I run via a scheduled cron task every thirty minutes. Specifically:

My headless installation of transmission uses a userID and password to authenticate its user. I have tested this in several browsers including the one on my phone and it works correctly. Also, from the command line, I am able to get access to transmission by typing transmission-remote -n userid:password -l, for example. This works from the local network, the specific machine, and the wider web due to port forwarding.

What doesn't work, frustratingly enough, is FlexGet. My config.yml file is:

tasks:
  # downloading task and remove finished torrents
  # called via cron every 30 minutes.
  download-showrss:
    rss:
      url: http://showrss.info/user/myspecific.rss?magnets=true&namespaces=true&na$
    all_series: yes
    transmission:
      host: localhost
      port: 9091
      username: transmission-user-name
      password: validated-password-with-web-and-command-line
    clean_transmission:
      host: localhost
      port: 9091
      delete_files: yes
      transmission_seed_limits: yes

I am sure it's probably some annoying syntax issue I haven't sorted out yet - not large with the YAML experience over here - but this has really been frustrating. I get the following error in my log file consistently:

2017-07-15 15:12 VERBOSE  details       download-showrss Summary - Accepted: 0 (Rejected: 32 Undecided: 0 Failed: 0)
2017-07-15 15:12 CRITICAL plugin        download-showrss Username/password for transmission is incorrect. Cannot connect.
2017-07-15 15:12 WARNING  task          download-showrss Aborting task (plugin: clean_transmission)

For reference, the relevant lines of my settings.json file for transmission (verified in all the places where the settings.json file appears) is:

    "rpc-authentication-required": true,
    "rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",
    "rpc-enabled": true,
    "rpc-password": "hash-of-actual-password",
    "rpc-port": 9091,
    "rpc-url": "/transmission/",
    "rpc-username": "transmission-user-name",
    "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.*,192.168.1.*",
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": false,
    "scrape-paused-torrents-enabled": true,
    "script-torrent-done-enabled": true,
    "script-torrent-done-filename": "/usr/local/bin/conv",

What in the world am I doing wrong??

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