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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Downloading podcasts via the command line?
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 17:47:43
Message-Id: 20180127174726.xvyo3iv4xhtwmk52@matica.foolinux.mooo.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Downloading podcasts via the command line? by Stroller
1 On 2018-01-27 12:38, Stroller wrote:
2
3 > Can anyone recommend a command line podcast downloader, please?
4 >
5 > Ideally I want to run it in a cronjob, saving .mp3 files which can be
6 > uploaded to my Google Drive (using net-misc/drive).
7 >
8 > My priority is NPR's Planet Money podcasts - I think they're available
9 > via RSS, as are BBC Radio 4's Money Box.
10
11 I don't know about podcasts, but for downloading web radio brodcasts I
12 just use curl, via basically this script (I have modified it since
13 posting on Gists so ffmpeg has been replaced with curl):
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15 https://gist.github.com/nobrowser/ad0a92a11ccc912c792806c8ead05707
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17 If podcasts require you to parse a RSS feed to get the time or address
18 etc., that could be done with a tiny bit of Python :-)
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