ZenPodder

Here is a moded version of bashpodder that works with your Creative Labs Nomad device to both grab the podcasts and put them on your mp3 player without you having to lift a finger. You will need to have libnjb and njbtools installed.


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#!/bin/bash
# By Linc 10/1/2004
# Find the latest script at http://linc.homeunix.org:8080/scripts/bashpodder
# Last revision 12/14/2004 - Many Contributers!
# If you use this and have made improvements or have comments
# drop me an email at linc dot fessenden at gmail dot com
# I'd appreciate it!
# Modified by Tom Higgins 01/28/05  - added auto moving  of new files onto a Creative Labs Nomad mp3 device
#    you will need libnjb and njbtools installed
# Make script crontab friendly:
cd $(dirname $0)
# datadir is the directory you want podcasts saved to:
datadir=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
njbtemp="njb"
# Check for and create datadir if necessary:
if test ! -d $datadir
        then
        mkdir $datadir
fi
# Check for and create the nomad temp dir if necessary:
if test ! -d $njbtemp
        then 
        mkdir $njbtemp
fi
# Delete any temp file:
rm -f temp.log
# Read the bp.conf file and wget any url not already in the podcast.log file:
while read podcast
 do
 file=$(wget -q $podcast -O - | tr '\r' '\n' | tr \' \" | sed -n 's/.*url="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p')
 for url in $file
  do
  echo $url >> temp.log
  if ! grep "$url" podcast.log > /dev/null
   then
   wget -q -P $njbtemp "$url"
  fi
  done
 done < bp.conf
# Move dynamically created log file to permanent log file:
cat podcast.log >> temp.log
sort temp.log | uniq > podcast.log
rm temp.log
# Move new files to the Nomad device and then move them to the datadir:
newfiles=$(ls $njbtemp)
  for items in $newfiles
    do
      njbputtrack -t $items -g podcast -l $datadir $njbtemp/$items
    done
mv $njbtemp/* $datadir
# Create an m3u playlist:
ls $datadir | grep -v m3u > $datadir/podcast.m3u

What kind of Bashpodder blog would this be without first posting about Linc's amazing Bashpodder. His work has spoken to the way tons of people think and work, simple scripts to do amazing things. Sure there are gui drenched apps that grab podcasts, but why float the bloat when you can do the deed with speed and style.

At the heat of Bashpodder is an old friend wget . Wget is the tool that has helped me get more out of the internet than any other tool I can think of.

So here is to Linc and the apps that spawned this site. Thanks Linc and keep up the great work.