On 11/16/12 16:14, Karen Lewellen wrote: > A friend sent me a link today to a page featuring a reading she > did which is in the archive of a radio station. for a number of > reasons, largely because I am TELNETTing to shellworld via > dialup, not going directly to this page from outside of here, I > cannot even begin to play this...I am not even sure what format > the file is in etc. I am going to paste the link below, and ask > what I would require in debian squeeze to manage this sort of > link in an accessible fashion? Wanting to be very task specific > here if I can. thanks and here is the link. Karen > > http://artonair.org/show/miss-macintosh-my-darling-chapter-6-dolores-brandon Good grief, the actual media URL was buried in that. I dug around, and this particular episode eventually points to http://artonair.org/audio/mp3/sbarcruas_readingexperiment_chapter6.mp3 as the underlying 43-meg MP3 file, which you can play on just about everything. To get that, I clicked on the Play icon (which wasn't very accessible) of the page you linked to. That pointed to http://artonair.org/play/11146/show/miss-macintosh-my-darling-chapter-6-dolores-brandon I then viewed the source on that and noticed a line that read createPlayer('http://artonair.org/sites/all/themes/artonair/custom_functions/node_playlist_xspf.php?nid=11146'); down around line 126. So I pulled out that URL and opened that: http://artonair.org/sites/all/themes/artonair/custom_functions/node_playlist_xspf.php?nid=11146 and viewed the source on *that* result which gave me the above MP3 link in the <location> tag. Ugly, but at least you have the audio source URL for that file. It would take some serious scripting magic to do that digging for you. I did notice that there was a link to the podcast RSS feed on that site: http://feeds.feedburner.com/artonair/podcasts which can be passed to any podcatcher. I like hpodder (readily available here on my Debian box with an "apt-get install hpodder"). If you don't care about a quick hpodder tutorial, you can skip the rest of this email <grins>. You should just be able to issue hpodder to configure where you want downloaded podcasts to be put, and whether you want some default podcasts. You can then add the above RSS URL with: hpodder add "http://feeds.feedburner.com/artonair/podcasts" You can pull down the list of pending downloads with hpodder update and review them with hpodder lseps (that "lseps" is "list episodes") which should list all your podcasts and the status--whether they're pending download, downloaded, or you skipped them (or possibly whether there was an error in the attempt). You can run "hpodder download" to download any pending ones, "hpodder catchup -n 3 1" will mark all episodes of "podcast 1" (each podcast feed has an ID, so the first one you added was #1) as skipped except the most recent 3 episodes. The man pages have more. I like to schedule a cron job to run at midnight to issue a "hpodder fetch" to update all 35 of my podcast feeds and download them all into their corresponding destinations. -tim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list