[colug-432] podcasts script in bash

[Ed Liddle]

There is also one called bash podder that can be found here
http://lincgeek.org/bashpodder/

-Ed

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Greg Sidelinger
<gregsidelinger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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