Akregator & Podcasting

Written by: Doug Jenkinson

My RSS feed agregator of choice is a lovely program called Akregator. Unfortunately, it's support for enclosure tags in RSS has not been implemented yet. And from what I understand today, will not be in the next version. But that is because of a feature-freeze, since Akregator will be a part of the KDE PIM project.

In light of that, I wanted to share the hack I've been using to download the podcasts that I enjoy listening to. It's a nice easy solution.

HowTo

Copy the download locations for the files to be downloaded. Paste them into a text file.
Save the file as podcasts.txt.
Copy the Bash script below or download it, and save it in the same directory as the above text file.
Open a shell, and run the code. Wget takes care of downloading all the files for you, and does it unattended so you can start it and walk away!

Source Code

get_podcasts.sh


						  #! /bin/bash

						   

						  FILENAME='podcasts.txt'

						   

						  for FILE in $FILENAME; do

						    wget -q -i $FILE

						  done

						   

						  exit 0

Command Line Arguments Used (wget):

-q: Quiet, no output.
-i $FILE: Get list of files to download from $FILE.

Huzzah

There you have it! A simple little hack that gets around an RSS agregator's lack of support for enclosure tags. You can download the Bash script.

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Revisions

v1.1 (2 Jan 2006) - Added enumeration of command line arguments.
v1.0 (8 Sep 2005) - Article published.