[colug-432] podcasts script in bash

[Greg Sidelinger]

If your podcasts are being published via RSS there is a nice little
command line program called castget that will pull down the files. I
used it to download video podcasts.  It supports some id3 tagging but
I never used it.

http://www.nongnu.org/castget/

Greg

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Rob Funk <rfunk at funknet.net> wrote:
> On Thursday, August 11, 2011 01:02:53 PM Vince Herried wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Rob Funk <rfunk at funknet.net> wrote:
>> > I've obviously missed some context, but I'm not clear on how you use it.
>> > It looks overly interactive to me....
>>
>> Geeks should not write documentation, OK, this geek should not.
>> I run it by using Google reader to let me know when updates happen to my
>> subscriptions.
>> I then go to that episode in Google reader and copy the link address
>> and past it as the first argument to my podcast script. Yea a lot of
>> interaction.
>>
>>
>> I'd love to see examples where the interaction is  not required.
>
> The key is that a true podcast uses an RSS 2.0 feed with <enclosure> tags that
> tell where the mp3 is. And of course cron can start a program every night.
> That program (say, get_enclosures.pl) can go down its list of feed URLs. For
> each feed it grabs the RSS, finds the unseen entries, finds the enclosure URLs
> in those, then downloads the files at those URLs.
>
> That happens every night without me thinking about it.
>
> (Originally I was saving those by date, and then listening in purely date
> order. Later I switched to saving by podcast name.)
>
> My weekly update-podcast-cd script looks in a CD staging directory for podcast
> directories, then looks in the download area for matching podcast directories.
> (My actual directory naming is more complex and involves symlinks and numbers
> for ordering, but I'll keep it simple here.) For each podcast that goes to the
> CD, the script asks whether I want to delete the files already in the CD
> staging area (i.e. were on last week's CD), then asks if I want to copy all
> the newer files from the download area to the staging area. (I should probably
> add an all-yes option for those weeks when I know I've finished last week and
> want all of the new ones.)
>
> Then I have a separate script that erases my CDRW and burns the contents of
> the staging area to the disc. It's separate because I sometimes want to tweak
> what's in the staging area before burning.
>
> I leave the ID3 tags alone (these days my podcasts all have them filled in),
> though it wouldn't be hard to add code to the nightly script that looks at the
> filename, the existing ID3 text, and the text in the RSS, and uses that to
> generate custom tags for certain podcasts.
>
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