Posh

Posh – a podcatcher written in Bash

Posh is a podcast downloader that does things the way its benevolent dictator wants (me). I once looked around for a command line podcast client, but I could not find anything I liked. So I wrote my own.

Summary of features:

• Few dependencies (curl, xsltproc), easy installation.
• Robust feed fetching and parsing, tracking of downloaded content, proper chronological ordering, sensible naming of downloaded files (audio or video) and expiry support.
• Supports both RSS and Atom 1.0 feeds.
• Easy configuration and feed subscription management. Self documenting (help, -h).
• OPML file support (import, delete, export).
• Suitable to set up as a cron job for periodic automatic updating of podcasts.

Changelog:

• 0.9: Added support for Atom 1.0 feeds.
• 0.8: Initial release.

Get it here: posh-0.9.tar.gz, version 0.9, 2011-11-05 [PGP signature: posh-0.9.tar.gz.asc]

Usage examples

Add a couple of feeds to config:

$ posh -a http://somewhere.com/feed.rss -a http://foo.feed.com/?rss "Foo Feed"

Update all feeds, download only the most recents item for each feed:

$ posh -u

Downloaded episodes can now be found under ~/Podcasts/, each podcast in its own
sub-directory.

Update feeds matching 'bbc', download and keep at most 5 items for each
feed, older items are expired:

$ posh -u bbc -l5 -e

# Remove feeds from config matching 'bbc.co.uk' and delete them from local cache:

$ posh -r bbc.co.uk -X