Download files linked in a RSS feed
Reusing existing connection to www.yourfeed.com:80. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 176975 (173K) [application/pdf] Saving to: 'MyFile.pdf' MyFile.pdf 100%[==================================================================================================================>] 172.83K 488KB/s in 0.4s 2015-10-30 15:06:24 (488 KB/s) - 'MyFile.pdf' saved [176975/176975]
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The difference between the original version provided and this one is that this one works rather than outputting a wget error
2curl $1 | grep -E "http.*\.mp3" | sed "s/.*\(http.*\.mp3\).*/\1/" | xargs wget -
Neither of the others worked for me. This does.
1curl http://url/rss | grep -o '<enclosure url="[^"]*' | grep -o '[^"]*$' | xargs wget -c -
Directly download all mp3 files of the desired podcast
1curl http://radiofrance-podcast.net/podcast09/rss_14726.xml | grep -Eo "(http|https)://[a-zA-Z0-9./?=_%:-]*mp3" | sort -u | xargs wget -
This script can be used to download enclosed files from a RSS feed. For example, it can be used to download mp3 files from a podcasts RSS feed. Show Sample Output
0wget -q -O- http://example-podcast-feed.com/rss | grep -o "<enclosure[ -~][^>]*" | grep -o "http://[ -~][^\"]*" | xargs wget -c -
0wget `curl -s <podcast feed URL> | grep -o 'https*://[^"]*mp3' | head -1`
What do you think?
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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