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Does anyone out there have a favorite Linux program for downloading podcasts? I've been using Chess Griffin's mashpodder but (a) it's now abandonware, and (b) due to the way it identifies files, it doesn't work with modern podcasts where the base name of the file is always "media.mp3" and the earlier parts of the URL change. As such, I'm looking for a replacement, preferably something that I can run as a cron job so that it fires every day without any intervention on my part and where the configuration lives in a file that I can edit with a simple text editor like vim. I'm considering rolling my own in Python just to get more experience with that language, but I thought I'd see if any Soylentils had suggestions for me to check out before I went to the effort of doing that.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:13PM (3 children)
Just curl the page text, sed that text to winnow down to your URL, wget to download if the filenames don't already exist (or don't match a log of previous downloads). Put it in a bash script, set it up in cron, and be done.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:55PM (1 child)
A real man would figure out how to do this using emacs.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @12:55AM
I'm a man, yes I am, and I can't help but love you so*:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emms/manual/#Quickstart-Guide [gnu.org]
If this doesn't do it out of the box, it's written in emacs-lisp, so hack away!
* https://hooktube.com/watch?v=4_gFF-z9OS8 [hooktube.com]
I knew the chorus, but never worked out the lyrics -- which are shown at the link.
(Score: 1) by Nofsck Ingcloo on Friday July 27 2018, @06:26PM
Already done. I have been happily using bashpodder http://lincgeek.org/bashpodder/ [lincgeek.org] for a couple of years. I made a couple of tweaks, and now it runs on cron overnight.
1984 was not written as an instruction manual.