pi – podcast catcher

bashpodder

I use bashpodder http://lincgeek.org/bashpodder/

— need to get xsltproc (it will run without it – but can be buggy)

sudo apt-get install xsltproc

— make it executeable

sudo chmod 755 bashpodder.shell

how to cron

–makes the running of scripts. Simply!
–Add a cron job. Open your cron tab:

$ crontab -e

cron it – mines runs at 2.30 every night

--Now you need to now the path to the bashpodder.shell script. I’ve set it up to where my path is --podcasts/bashpodder.shell .
--Now how to set it up or write it in our cron tab file. The format is:
---* * * * * [COMMAND]
--1st * – Min (00-59)
--2nd * – Hour (00-23)
--3rd * – Day of the month (00-31)
--4th * – Month (01-12)
--5th * – Day of the week ( 01-07)
 
--Example:
--00 03 * * * [command] Would be an entry to run a script every night at 3am. And that’s when I have bashpodder run. --My entry looks like this:
 
30 02 * * * podcasts/bashpodder.shell
 
--It runs at 2:30am every night.
--If i wanted it to run every Sunday at 3:30am, it would look like this:
--35 03 * * 07 podcasts/bashpodder.shell
--It seems that the week starts on a Monday in cronland. I think we get the point. Experiment, play around with it.

how to add podcast

1. add a line to bp.conf

e.g.  “http://feeds.99percentinvisible.org/99percentinvisible”

2. then run

cd /podcasts
./bashpodder.shell

Recommendation

if I had to recommend one podcast I’d go for http://99percentinvisible.org/