That being said, I am always looking for a new and better way to get these podcasts. I started out using bashpodder. It was a good way to get podcasts but lacked some features. I then went to using graphical tools those were a bust because I wanted something I could schedule and was easy to configure.
Roll in podget. Its very easy and simple to use and does the job I want.
A huge plus is it is already in the debian repos.
Installing is a snap. I run Ubuntu 7.10 so to install podget was simply:
$sudo aptitude install podget
Once installed there is a first time run interaction, which creates ~/.podget .
The ~/.podget file is where all the default configuration files are for podget. Two files are stored there podgetrc and serverlist. Podgetrc is the configuration file for the script. This allows you to adjust were podcasts will be stored where logfiles should be stored and other settings.
NOTE: I had to change up the variable most_recent due to podget downloading all podcasts. This controls how far back podget will try and download by default set to most_recent=0. I set mine to most_recent=2.
The serverlist file is where all the RSS feeds are stored. It is a very simple syntax of
Following the documentation and several sites that had some podget info. on them I set it up in cron.
$ crontab -e
15 04,16 * * * /usr/bin/podget -s
This allows for podget to run at 4:15 and 16:15.
Anyway, here are a few links I found helpful. Enjoy podget.
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