https://flohei.de/tags/open-source/ Recent content in Open Source on Flo's Thoughts Hugo en-us Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:35:16 +0200 https://flohei.de/2015/02/podcast-backup-script/ Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:35:16 +0200 https://flohei.de/2015/02/podcast-backup-script/ <p>Now that John Chidgey <a href="http://techdistortion.com/articles/setting-the-bar-high" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that he is terminating his fabulous <a href="http://techdistortion.com/podcasts/pragmatic" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pragmatic podcast</a> and that the site will disappear eventually I thought it might be a good idea to make a backup copy of the episodes outside of my ordinary podcast clients. A quick Google search for this did not bring up a solution.</p> <p>So, this morning I hacked together a fairly simple, quick and dirty script in Python to download all episodes from a specific podcast. You can find it on <a href="https://github.com/flohei/pypodbackup" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GitHub</a>. Just pass the URL to the podcast&rsquo;s feed and run it. In John&rsquo;s case, for example:</p>