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https://github.com/doga/podcatcher

A podcast client for the command line written in Ruby.
https://github.com/doga/podcatcher

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A podcast client for the command line written in Ruby.

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/doga/podcatcher
Owner: doga
Created: 2010-02-28T18:50:43.000Z (over 14 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2019-11-05T09:45:19.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
Last Synced: 2024-09-07T14:49:23.932Z (26 days ago)
Topics: cli, podcast, podcatcher, ruby
Language: Ruby
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Size: 110 KB
Stars: 39
Watchers: 6
Forks: 8
Open Issues: 7
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.txt

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README

ARMANGIL'S PODCATCHER
=====================

Armangil's podcatcher is a podcast client for the command line.
It can download any type of content enclosed in RSS or Atom files, such as
MP3 or other audio content, video and images. A search function for
subscribing to feeds is also included. It provides several download
strategies, supports BitTorrent, offers cache management, and generates
playlists for media player applications.

As argument, it accepts feeds (RSS or Atom) or subscription lists
(OPML or iTunes PCAST), in the form of filenames or URLs (HTTP or FTP).
Alternatively, it accepts one feed or subscription list from the standard
input.

BitTorrent is supported both internally (through the RubyTorrent library)
and externally (.torrent files are downloaded, but the user handles
them using a BitTorrent application). The latter is currently the most
reliable method, as RubyTorrent is still in alpha phase.

Concurrency is not handled: simultaneous executions of this program should
target different directories.

As of version 4, the default target directory is ~/.podcatcher instead of the current directory.

Visit https://github.com/doga/podcatcher for more information.

Installation
------------
$ # Optional security step (do this once)
$ gem cert --add <(curl -Ls https://raw.githubusercontent.com/doga/podcatcher/master/1.%20Resolve%20ERB%20markup/certs/doga.pem)
$
$ # Install
$ # (Optional security paramater: --trust-policy HighSecurity)
$ gem install podcatcher --trust-policy HighSecurity
$
$ # Check the used version
$ podcatcher --version
4.0.0
$
$ # Optionally enable podcatcher MAN pages on Unix-like systems
$ gem install gem-man # do this once
$ gem man podcatcher # shows podcatcher MAN page

Usage
-----
podcatcher [options] [arguments]

Options:
-d, --dir DIR Directory for storing application state.
Default value is ~/.podcatcher .
-D, --cachedir DIR Directory for storing downloaded content.
Default value is the 'cache' subdirectory
of the state directory (specified by
the --dir option).
This option is ignored if this directory
is inside the state directory, or if the
state directory is inside this directory.
-s, --size SIZE Size, in megabytes, of the cache directory
(specified by the --cachedir option).
0 means unbounded. Default value is 512.
This option also sets the upper limit for
the amount of content that can be downloaded
in one session.
Content downloaded during previous sessions
may be deleted by podcatcher in order to
make place for new content.
-e, --[no-]empty Empty the cache directory before
downloading content.
-p, --[no-]perfeed Create one subdirectory per feed
in the cache directory.
-S, --strategy S Strategy to use when downloading content:
* back_catalog: download any content that
has not been downloaded before; prefer
recent content to older content (may
download more than one content file per
feed),
* one: download one content file (not
already downloaded) for each feed, with a
preference for recent content,
* all: download all content, with a
preference for recent content; even
already downloaded content is downloaded
once again (may download more than one
content file per feed),
* chron: download in chronological order
any content that has not been downloaded
before; this is useful for audiobook
podcasts etc (may download more than one
content file per feed),
* chron_one: download the oldest content of
each feed that has not already been
downloaded,
* chron_all: download all content in
chronological order, even if the content
has already been downloaded (may download
more than one content file per feed),
* new: download the most recent content
of each feed, if it has not already been
downloaded (DEPRECATED: use 'one' instead
of 'new'),
* cache: generate a playlist for content
already in cache.
Default value is one.
-C, --content REGEXP A regular expression that matches the
MIME types of content to be downloaded.
Examples: '^video/', '^audio/mpeg$'.
Default value is '', which matches any
type of content.
-l, --language LANG A list of language tags separated by
commas. Examples: 'en-us,de', 'fr'.
A feed whose language does not match
this list is ignored. By default, all
feeds are accepted. See
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/languages.html
and
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html#optionalChannelElements
for allowed tags.
-H, --horizon DATE Do not download content older than
the given date. The date has the format
yyyy.mm.dd (example: 2007.03.22) or
yyyy.mm (equivalent to yyyy.mm.01) or
yyyy (equivalent to yyyy.01.01).
By default, no horizon is specified.
-r, --retries N Try downloading files (content, feeds
or subscription lists) at most N times
before giving up. Default value is 1.
-t, --type TYPE Type of the playlist written to
standard output. Accepted values are
m3u, smil, pls, asx, tox, xspf.
Default value is m3u.
-m, --memsize N Remember last N downloaded content,
and do not download them again.
0 means unbounded. Default value is 1000.
-o, --order ORDER The order in which feeds are traversed
when downloading content:
* random: randomizes the feed order,
so that every feed has an equal chance
when content is downloaded, even if
the cache size is small and the number
of feeds is big,
* alphabetical: orders feeds
alphabetically by using their titles,
* sequential: preserves the argument
order (and the feed order in
subscription lists),
* reverse: reverses the feed order.
Default value is random.
-F, --function FUNCTION Used function:
* download: downloads content from
specified feeds,
* search: generates an OPML subscription
list of feeds matching the specified
query; the only options relevant for
search are -v, -r and -f.
Default value is download.
-f, --feeds N Do not download more than N feeds
(when using the download function),
or return the first N relevant feeds
(when using the search function).
0 means unbounded. Default value is 1000.
-T, --torrentdir DIR Copy torrent files to directory DIR.
The handling of torrents through an
external BitTorrent client is left to
the user. If this option is not used,
torrents are handled internally (if
RubyTorrent is installed), or else
ignored.
-U, --uploadrate N Maximum upload rate (kilobytes per second)
for the internal BitTorrent client.
Unbounded by default.
-i, --itemsize N If downloaded content is less than N MB in
size (where N is an integer), fetch other
content of that same feed until this size
is reached.
Default value is 0.
The intent here is to ensure that podcatcher
downloads about as much content from podcasts
that frequently post small content (in
terms of minutes) as it does from podcasts
that post bigger content less frequently.
This option was more relevant in the early
days of podcasting when content size varied
greatly from one podcast to another. You
would rarely need to use this option today.
-c, --[no-]cache Generate a playlist for content
already in cache.
DEPRECATED, use '--strategy cache'.
-a, --[no-]asif Do not download content, only download
feeds and subscription lists.
Useful for testing.
-v, --[no-]verbose Run verbosely.
-V, --version Display current version and exit.
-h, --help Display this message and exit.
--[no-]restrictednames In the cache directory, make the names of
created subdirectories and files acceptable
for restrictive file systems such as VFAT
and FAT, which are used on Windows and MP3
player devices.
Enabled by default.
-A, --arguments FILENAME_OR_URL Read arguments from specified file.
Rules:
* accepts one argument per line,
* ignores empty lines and lines starting
with #,
* this option may be used several times
in one command.
-O, --options FILENAME_OR_URL Read options from specified file.
The options file uses the YAML format.

Usage examples:

podcatcher http://feeds.feedburner.com/Ruby5

podcatcher -O options.yaml -A feeds.txt

podcatcher --dir ~/podcasts http://www.npr.org/podcasts.opml

podcatcher --dir ~/podcasts --strategy cache > cache.m3u

cat feeds.opml | podcatcher --dir ~/podcasts > latest.m3u

podcatcher -vd ~/podcasts -s 500 -m 10_000 -t tox feeds.opml > latest.tox

podcatcher -vF search news http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts.opml > bbc_news.opml

podcatcher -F search -f 12 news http://www.npr.org/podcasts.opml > npr_news.opml

Support
-------
Please use https://github.com/doga/podcatcher for bug reports
and feature requests.

License
-------
Armangil's podcatcher is released under the MIT Licence.