Kevie, from the

TuxJam podcast, continues his look at audio tools on the

command line; this time focusing on acquiring audio files from an

RSS feed.

Save the latest file from a feed:

wget `curl RSS_FEED | grep -o 'https*://[^"]*FILE_EXTENSION' | head -1`

To get the latest episode of TuxJam

wget `curl https://tuxjam.otherside.network/feed/podcast/ | grep -o 'https*://[^"]*ogg' | head -1`

However if you want the files from the whole feed:

wget `curl RSS_FEED | grep -Eo 'https*://[^"]*FILE_EXTENSION' | sort -u | xargs`

To get every episode of TuxJam:

wget `curl https://tuxjam.otherside.network/feed/podcast/ | grep -Eo 'https*://[^"]*ogg' | sort -u | xargs`

If you wish to specify the directory to save the file in then use

-P /directory after wget. To download the TuxJam feed and place

the files in a directory called Podcasts in your home folder you

would use:

wget -P ~/Podcasts `curl https://tuxjam.otherside.network/feed/podcast/ | grep -Eo 'https*://[^"]*ogg' | sort -u | xargs`

For more in this mini-series of audio command line tools then see:

hpr4249 :: Audio Streams on the Command Line

hpr4287 :: Schedule audio recordings on the command line

hpr4294 :: Schedule audio recordings on the command line - A

bit of fine tuning