cli/curses podcatcher

[koffiejunkie]

Hi penguins,

As the subject says: I'm looking for a commandline or curses based podcast downloader. Basically something I can either put in cron or in a screen.

I'm using iTunes for my day to day podcasting needs, but there are enough podcasts that I really want to preserve every episode of - for my retirement enjoyment and or future generations - that disc space is becoming and issue on my laptop. So something I can thrown on my file server would be ideal.

Any suggestions?

 

[oldhat]

Try BashPodder or MashPodder.

 

[koffiejunkie]

Thanks guys, I'll have a look at these

 

[koffiejunkie]

mashpodder seems to be the better of the two. I have a problem with file names though:

$ ls -lh Star_Talk_Radio/
total 7.5G
-rw-r--r-- 1 koffie koffie  41M Apr 27  2014 06sl0CePEQQQ.128.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 koffie koffie  39M Feb 22  2014 0usTQfeQoO8k.128.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 koffie koffie  41M Jun 22  2014 1hYw1ZqrDzmV.128.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 koffie koffie  41M Feb 16  2014 1wUJeNEiZBfq.128.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 koffie koffie  40M Aug 19  2013 25rrBusL9ftt.128.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 koffie koffie  78M Sep 26  2013 27M1fRJVvJbG
-rw-r--r-- 1 koffie koffie  53M Jun  6 01:36 33ToQsnMFuCd
-rw-r--r-- 1 koffie koffie  47M Dec 21  2013 38huoV0c8VrV.128.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 koffie koffie  54M May 24 17:11 3AdATWnqn0Yr
-rw-r--r-- 1 koffie koffie  39M Mar 28  2013 3llvVldEovqy.128.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 koffie koffie  17M Sep 26  2013 3tZZyBiSshFm
...

The podcast feed has the proper file name in the enclosure tags:

<enclosure type="audio/mpeg" url="http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/211260593-startalk-nasas-vision-for-space-with-charles-bolden.mp3" length="54799415"/>

The random names don't exist in the feed at all, and don't appear to be generated by the script, so I'm not sure how it ends up that way? It's the only podcast this has happened on so far

Anyone seen this before?

 

[oldhat]

A few other feeds also do this due to multiple http redirects. There is some useful information here: https://github.com/chessgriffin/mashpodder/issues/10

 

[koffiejunkie]

Aaah, that make sense. I did see the fix, but in the context of another problem - don't remember exactly what now.