Command-line/cron podcast downloading tool?

Phil phil_lor at bigpond.com
Wed Nov 12 00:13:23 UTC 2014


On 11/11/14 22:01, Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2014-11-11, Adam Funk wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been using hpodder (even though it was discontinued a few years
>> ago), but now (since I upgraded the machine to 14.10) its cron job is
>> failing every morning with "hpodder: <stdin>: hGetLine: end of file".
>> I understand from googling that this is a Haskell error, & I don't
>> know how to use Haskell.
>>
>> Any suggestions for a similar replacement?  I'd like something that
>> be run purely from the command-line & cron.
>
> Oops!  It turns out that when I decrufted ~/.[a-z]* the other day
> after the distribution upgrade, I forgot to restore ~/.hpodder/ ---
> all fixed now.
>
> However, I am looking at podget now --- I guess it's probably a bad
> idea to keep using a program that hasn't been maintained for a few
> years.
>

I use gpodder, it works well.


-- 
Regards,
Phil




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