[gentoo-user] Downloading podcasts via the command line?

[gentoo-user] Downloading podcasts via the command line?

[Stroller]

Can anyone recommend a command line podcast downloader, please?

Ideally I want to run it in a cronjob, saving .mp3 files which can be uploaded to my Google Drive (using net-misc/drive).

My priority is NPR's Planet Money podcasts - I think they're available via RSS, as are BBC Radio 4's Money Box.

Links:
• https://www.npr.org/sections/money/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qjnv/episodes/downloads

I've also been recommended Money to the Masses which is available by Libsyn, whatever that is - it seems to have download and RSS options.

Thanks in advance for any recommendations,

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading podcasts via the command line?

[Rich Freeman]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 7:38 AM, Stroller
<stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a command line podcast downloader, please?
>

I haven't used it recently, or for your specific podcasts, but this is
basically exactly what media-sound/podracer was designed to do.  I've
used it in the past and it works great, though you do need to
configure some text files.

-- 
Rich

Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading podcasts via the command line?

[Neil Bothwick]

On 27 January 2018 12:38:40 GMT, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>Can anyone recommend a command line podcast downloader, please?
>
>Ideally I want to run it in a cronjob, saving .mp3 files which can be
>uploaded to my Google Drive (using net-misc/drive).
>
>My priority is NPR's Planet Money podcasts - I think they're available
>via RSS, as are BBC Radio 4's Money Box.
>
>Links:
>• https://www.npr.org/sections/money/
>• http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qjnv/episodes/downloads
>
>I've also been recommended Money to the Masses which is available by
>Libsyn, whatever that is - it seems to have download and RSS options.
>
>Thanks in advance for any recommendations,
>
>Stroller.

I use Airsonic for this now but fkr several years before that I used flexget. Flexget's config file is a little tricky at first but it makes up for that with plenty of options. 
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[gentoo-user] Re: Downloading podcasts via the command line?

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2018-01-27 12:38, Stroller wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a command line podcast downloader, please?
> 
> Ideally I want to run it in a cronjob, saving .mp3 files which can be
> uploaded to my Google Drive (using net-misc/drive).
> 
> My priority is NPR's Planet Money podcasts - I think they're available
> via RSS, as are BBC Radio 4's Money Box.

I don't know about podcasts, but for downloading web radio brodcasts I
just use curl, via basically this script (I have modified it since
posting on Gists so ffmpeg has been replaced with curl):

https://gist.github.com/nobrowser/ad0a92a11ccc912c792806c8ead05707

If podcasts require you to parse a RSS feed to get the time or address
etc., that could be done with a tiny bit of Python :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading podcasts via the command line?

[Corbin Bird]

On 01/27/2018 06:38 AM, Stroller wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a command line podcast downloader, please?
>
> Ideally I want to run it in a cronjob, saving .mp3 files which can be uploaded to my Google Drive (using net-misc/drive).
>
> My priority is NPR's Planet Money podcasts - I think they're available via RSS, as are BBC Radio 4's Money Box.
>
> Links:
> • https://www.npr.org/sections/money/
> • http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qjnv/episodes/downloads
>
> I've also been recommended Money to the Masses which is available by Libsyn, whatever that is - it seems to have download and RSS options.
>
> Thanks in advance for any recommendations,
>
> Stroller.
>
>
.

Libsyn is basically a podcast download archive service. Its part of SoundCloud.

> https://www.libsyn.com/
You will need the correct link to find the podcasts your looking for.
.
Corbin

Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading podcasts via the command line?

[Stroller]

> On 27 Jan 2018, at 14:10, Neil Bothwick <neil@stfw.net> wrote:
> 
> I use Airsonic for this now but fkr several years before that I used flexget. Flexget's config file is a little tricky at first but it makes up for that with plenty of options. 

Are there ebuilds for either of these? I can't find them in Portage?

The current version of Podracer, Rich's suggestion, is 10 years old!

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading podcasts via the command line?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 13:13:43 +0000, Stroller wrote:

> > I use Airsonic for this now but fkr several years before that I used
> > flexget. Flexget's config file is a little tricky at first but it
> > makes up for that with plenty of options.   
> 
> Are there ebuilds for either of these? I can't find them in Portage?

I was sure I installed flexget from portage but it's not there now. It is
in the fouxlay overlay.

Airsonic is a bit much for just downloading podcasts, it's a complete
music streaming server. It's not in portage, I installed the WAR package
from https://github.com/airsonic/airsonic


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Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading podcasts via the command line?

[Rich Freeman]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 8:13 AM, Stroller
<stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 27 Jan 2018, at 14:10, Neil Bothwick <neil@stfw.net> wrote:
>>
>> I use Airsonic for this now but fkr several years before that I used flexget. Flexget's config file is a little tricky at first but it makes up for that with plenty of options.
>
> Are there ebuilds for either of these? I can't find them in Portage?
>
> The current version of Podracer, Rich's suggestion, is 10 years old!
>

Yeah, we'll be in really sad shape if bash or curl ever go away, or
when they stop using RSS/Atom...  :)

I have used flexget in the past, though more for video.  It works,
though the yaml is finicky as I recall.  It would probably be easier
to use for podcasts, but it is much more complex than podracer with a
large number of dependencies so I wouldn't underestimate the issues
you might run into maintaining it yourself.

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Rich