Much thanks to Linc for the first version of this bashpodder. Like many
others
before me I wanted to tweak this a little to suit my download
preferences. Namely
I wanted the script to grab each podcast into its own directory.
Directory names should
match the show title. I wanted to allow wget to manage the downloads and
the names of files.
Finally I wanted to be able to limit the number of files downloaded by
the script and keep the
spirit of lincs code by allowing you to not have to use arguments.

At the start of running it makes a note of all mp3s downloaded in its
current directory. At the end of
downloading it makes a new list and compares them. This comparison will
output the names of files which are
uniq and therefore have been downloaded in that session. The file is
Podcasts-YYYY-MM-DD.

Configuration

the file bp.conf contains a list of the XML , RSS feeds available from
Podcast web sites. Look for the
xml or rss button which may link to that sites rss feed for their shows.


Usage

./bashpodder.shell [n]



Where n is the number of Files to download

Examples

       ./bashpodder.shell
               Start to download all the files from the feeds listed in
bp.conf

       ./bashpodder.shell      0
               Start to download all the files from the feeds listed in
bp.conf
               Since your downloading 0 files this will only create the
Title directories

       ./bashpodder.shell      3
               Start to download all the files from the feeds listed in
bp.conf
               Since your downloading 3 files this will  create the
Title directories if they dont exist
               bashpodder.shell will download the first three files in
the feed.

Notes

Its probably bandwidth expensive to be making redundant calls via wget
to the server so yes it may be more ele
gant to examine the rss feed url to see if we have downloaded that file.
Im worried about the whole path chang
ing .


ToDo

use gnu_pod to upload new shows direct to the pod.

find a way to extrapolate the file name before wget to see if we should
call wget

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+ Updated bashpodder shell to handle Lug Radio feeds.

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updates 12/10/05

Ive updated my bashpodder shell to handle these wierd feeds. So now it
grabs open Alpha... ill recheck my feeds and see if im still not
grabbing anything else. If you know a way to move the resultant
downloaded files direct to my connected ipod id be interested.

Nik