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<p>New page: == A couple of scripts for podcatching, podcast management, and playlist creation== === Motivation=== I wanted an on-device method for downloading podcast episodes and generating playlist...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== A couple of scripts for podcatching, podcast management, and playlist creation==<br /> <br /> === Motivation===<br /> I wanted an on-device method for downloading podcast episodes and generating playlists, and didn't want to have to rely on iTunes.<br /> <br /> === Scripts===<br /> I put all these scripts in /var/home/scripts, do with them as you please.<br /> <br /> ==== bashpodder.shell====<br /> First, I took [*http://lincgeek.org/bashpodder bashpodder] and modified it a bit. This isn't really related to webOS, but is more just general Linux scripting.<br /> <br /> Download from [http://gitorious.org/webos-internals/podcatcher/blobs/raw/master/bashpodder.shell gitorious]<br /> <br /> ==== bp.conf====<br /> This is the config file that bashpodder uses. The bashpodder above allows a MAX parameter after the name of each feed to limit the number of episodes you get.<br /> <br /> Example bp.conf<br /> <br /> Download from [http://gitorious.org/webos-internals/podcatcher/blobs/raw/master/bp.conf gitorious]<br /> <br /> ==== generatePlaylist.sh====<br /> The last line of bashpodder originally generated a .m3u playlist, but I wanted to move this out to a separate process (so I could remove episodes and regenerate the playlist).<br /> <br /> As soon as luna sees the .m3u being created in /media/internal, it adds it to the com_palm_media_playlist table, but it doesn't parse it to fill out the playlist, so you never see your episodes. That's what generatePlaylist.sh fixes. <br /> <br /> Again, if you want, you can remove episodes and rerun this script to regenerate the playlist with the updated list of episodes.<br /> <br /> Download from [http://gitorious.org/webos-internals/podcatcher/blobs/raw/master/generatePlaylist.sh gitorious]<br /> <br /> ==== podcatcher.sh====<br /> Finally, you'll probably want all of this to be run from cron every few hours or so (preferably when you're on WiFi).<br /> <br /> If you have not setup cron yet, refer to [[tracking]].<br /> <br /> Download from [http://gitorious.org/webos-internals/podcatcher/blobs/raw/master/podcatcher.sh gitorious]<br /> <br /> And an associated cronjob:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;<br /> 0 */6 * * * /var/home/scripts/podcatcher.sh 2&gt;&amp;1 &gt;&gt; /var/home/scripts/podcatcher.log<br /> &lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Whenever the cronjob runs, the MAX most recent episodes of your podcasts will be downloaded (if they haven't been downloaded already), and the playlist will be updated.<br /> <br /> === Troubleshooting===<br /> If a download fails, you can force a re-download by removing the source address from podcast.log. (The re-downloaded podcast will not be in the correct order in the playlist.)<br /> <br /> You can check podcatcher.log to see if any error messages are being thrown.<br /> <br /> Make sure your executable scripts are chmod u+x:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;<br /> chmod u+x bashpodder.shell<br /> chmod u+x generatePlaylist.sh<br /> chmod u+x podcatcher.sh<br /> &lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> === Caveats===<br /> *If this deletes all your files, I'm sorry.<br /> *If you go over your 5gb cap, I'm sorry.<br /> *I have no idea what happens if you're using the media player when this script runs.<br /> ** Actually, what seems to happen is it kicks you out of your playlist. That's... unfortunate, but acceptable.<br /> *I haven't tested to see what happens on address not found messages during wgets.<br /> Use at your own risk.<br /> <br /> Also, if future updates of WebOS properly handle .m3u files, then these scripts should be updated.</div>

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