hpr4398 :: Command line fun: downloading a podcast
Kevie goes through how to download from an RSS feed from the command
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Kevie, from the TuxJam podcast, continues his look at audio tools on the command line; this time focusing on acquiring audio files from an RSS feed.
Save the latest file from a feed:
wget `curl RSS_FEED | grep -o 'https*://[^"]*FILE_EXTENSION' | head -1`To get the latest episode of TuxJam
wget `curl https://tuxjam.otherside.network/feed/podcast/ | grep -o 'https*://[^"]*ogg' | head -1`However if you want the files from the whole feed:
wget `curl RSS_FEED | grep -Eo 'https*://[^"]*FILE_EXTENSION' | sort -u | xargs`To get every episode of TuxJam:
wget `curl https://tuxjam.otherside.network/feed/podcast/ | grep -Eo 'https*://[^"]*ogg' | sort -u | xargs`If you wish to specify the directory to save the file in then use -P /directory after wget. To download the TuxJam feed and place the files in a directory called Podcasts in your home folder you would use:
wget -P ~/Podcasts `curl https://tuxjam.otherside.network/feed/podcast/ | grep -Eo 'https*://[^"]*ogg' | sort -u | xargs`For more in this mini-series of audio command line tools then see: