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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.
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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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## 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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## distributed podcastching
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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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