hpr1362 :: Fixing a bad RSS feed
Perl scripts to modify broken RSS feeds on the fly
Hosted by Dave Morriss on Tuesday, 2013-10-22 is flagged as Explicit and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
RSS, Perl, podcast, scripting.
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There have been problems with the podcast feed for "mintCast", apparently as a result of a bug in Wordpress. The feed contains multiple "enclosure" tags containing the same audio over and over again. While the mintCast hosts are looking for a fix I would like to find a local work-around.
I have also encountered a problem with the "Pod Delusion Extra" feed which contains multiple enclosures in some episodes. Unlike the "mintCast" example I don't want to lose these enclosures but want to find a way of repackaging them into individual episodes.
These problems affect some podcatchers, the modified Bashpodder I use being amongst them. To counteract this problem I have written two short Perl scripts to copy and clean each feed before submitting it to my podcatcher.
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Dealing_with_bad_RSS_feeds.html