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91 lines
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You can use git-annex as a podcatcher, to download podcast contents.
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No additional software is required, but your git-annex must be built
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with the Feeds feature (run `git annex version` to check).
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All you need to do is put something like this in a cron job:
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`cd somerepo && git annex importfeed http://url/to/podcast http://other/podcast/url`
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This downloads the urls, and parses them as RSS, Atom, or RDF feeds.
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All enclosures are downloaded and added to the repository, the same as if you
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had manually run `git annex addurl` on each of them.
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git-annex will avoid downloading a file from a feed if its url has already
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been stored in the repository before. So once a file is downloaded,
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you can move it around, delete it, `git annex drop` its content, etc,
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and it will not be downloaded again by repeated runs of
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`git annex importfeed`. Just how a podcatcher should behave. (git-annex versions
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since 2015 also tracks the podcast `guid` values, as metadata, to help avoid
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duplication if the media file url changes; use `git annex metadata ...` to inspect.)
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## templates
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To control the filenames used for items downloaded from a feed,
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there's a --template option. The default is
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`--template='${feedtitle}/${itemtitle}${extension}'`
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Other available template variables:
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feedauthor, itemauthor, itemsummary, itemdescription, itemrights, itemid,
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itempubdate, author, title.
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## catching up
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To catch up on a feed without downloading its contents,
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use `git annex importfeed --relaxed`, and delete the symlinks it creates.
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Next time you run `git annex addurl` it will only fetch any new items.
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## fast mode
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To add a feed without downloading its contents right now,
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use `git annex importfeed --fast`. Then you can use `git annex get` as
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usual to download the content of an item.
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## storing the podcast list in git
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You can check the list of podcast urls into git right next to the
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files it downloads. Just make a file named feeds and add one podcast url
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per line.
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Then you can run git-annex on all the feeds:
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`xargs git-annex importfeed < feeds`
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## recreating lost episodes
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If for some reason git-annex refuses to download files you are certain are in the podcast, it is quite possible it is because they have already been downloaded. In any case, you can use `--force` to redownload them:
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`git-annex importfeed --force http://example.com/feed`
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## distributed podcatching
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A nice benefit of using git-annex as a podcatcher is that you can
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run `git annex importfeed` on the same url in different clones
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of a repository, and `git annex sync` will sync it all up.
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## centralized podcatching
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You can also have a designated machine which always fetches all podcstas
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to local disk and stores them. That way, you can archive podcasts with
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time-delayed deletion of upstream content. You can also work around slow
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downloads upstream by podcatching to a server with ample bandwidth or work
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around a slow local Internet connection by podcatching to your home server
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and transferring to your laptop on demand.
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## youtube playlists
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If your git-annex is also built with quvi support, you can also use
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`git annex importfeed` on youtube playlists. It will automatically download
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the videos linked to by the playlist.
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For this you need an rss file containing links to the videos.
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For example, this url currently works:
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<http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/PLz8ZG1e9MPlzefklz1Gv79icjywTXycR->
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## metadata
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As well as storing the urls for items imported from a feed, git-annex can
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store additional [[metadata]], like the author, and itemdescription.
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This can then be looked up later, used in [[metadata_driven_views]], etc.
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To make all available metadata from the feed be stored:
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`git config annex.genmetadata true`
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