Armangil's Podcatcher - Part 2

(See part 1 here)

I've been experimenting the past few nights with some options for the podcatcher.

-S chron

The strategy option controls the order of and amount of downloads. I used 'chron' to grab any new content

-H 2007.08.01

Horizon is used to set a cutoff date for the earliest download. I wanted to limit the number of downloads (and the time it would take) when working with long running or prolific podcasts

-p

Creates a subfolder for each feed

--no-empty

I've been having the problem of old content being deleted when new content is downloaded, but this option didn't really seem to help.

-v

The verbose mode let me see what the program was doing as it happened

In this snippet of the output, we can see files being deleted.

Deleting: /home/dgentry/podcatcher/cache/PodTech.net: Technology and Entertainment Video Network/Podtech_sameer_zook.mp3
Deleting: /home/dgentry/podcatcher/cache/Rocketboom RSS 2.0 WINDOWS WMV/rb_07_aug_14.wmv
Deleting: /home/dgentry/podcatcher/cache/Rocketboom RSS 2.0 WINDOWS WMV
Fetching: http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode65-introToEmbeddedSystems.mp3 (42257055 bytes)
#EXTINF:-1,[Software Engineering Radio] Episode 65: Introduction to Embedded Systems
/home/dgentry/podcatcher/cache/Software Engineering Radio/seradio-episode65-introToEmbeddedSystems.mp3
Fetching: http://www.rocketboom.net/video/rb_07_aug_15.wmv (1000 bytes)
#EXTINF:-1,[Rocketboom RSS 2.0 WINDOWS WMV] rb_07_aug_15
/home/dgentry/podcatcher/cache/Rocketboom RSS 2.0 WINDOWS WMV/rb_07_aug_15.wmv
Deleting: /home/dgentry/podcatcher/cache/Photos from everyone tagged green/1120072640_cac0ed247e_o.jpg
Deleting: /home/dgentry/podcatcher/cache/dawn and drew tv/dawnanddrewtv-73620-08-05-2007.mp4
Fetching: ...

More later...