Tanis is podcast series, now ended, and I wanted to download it. Here's what I did.

First get the episode list.

I use claws-mail and subsribe to the RSS feed, From this I can ceate an podcast list.

cd /home/username/.claws-mail/RSSyl/My Feeds (RSSyl)/TANIS
grep https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/tanis/TANIS_EPISODE_ * | grep X-RSSyl-URL: > /home/username/entertainment/TANIS/EPISODES.txt

Now we have episode list, Yay! So we can parse this lisr and get the episodes. Python code below:

import eyed3
from glob import glob
import html2text
import logging
import os
import pathlib
import requests
from time import sleep
import sys

infile = "EPISODES.txt"

episodes = []
f = open(infile, "rt")
episodes = f.readlines()
f.close()

# Strip stuff
eps = []
all_pods = []

for ep in episodes:
    url = ep.split('URL:')[1].strip()
    all_pods.append(os.path.basename(url))
    eps.append(url)
print(all_pods)
    
downloaded = glob("*.mp3")

toget = []
for ap in all_pods:
    if ap not in downloaded:
        toget.append(ap)
        print(ap)

base_url = "https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/tanis/"
print("Getting files")
for podcast in toget:
    print(os.path.join(base_url, podcast))
    r = requests.get(os.path.join(base_url, podcast), allow_redirects=True)
    print(r.status_code)
    #continue
    print("Downloading the episode, please wait")
    open(podcast, "wb").write(r.content)
    print("Episode downloaded")
    sleep(10)

pod_files = glob("*.mp3")
pod_files.sort()
f = open("TANIS.m3u", "wt")
for pod in pod_files:
    f.write(pod)
    f.write("\n")
f.close()

Done!

Now load the playlist into VLC and listen.

Last changed: 4. February, 2022 at 20:35