HPR4398: Command line fun: downloading a podcast

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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:

• hpr4249 :: Audio Streams on the Command Line
• hpr4287 :: Schedule audio recordings on the command line
• hpr4294 :: Schedule audio recordings on the command line - A bit of fine tuning

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