Download all files in RSS feed using Ruby
April 24th, 2009
3 comments
I’m working on learning Ruby on Rails and one great resource that I find myself going to is RailsCast. But as I really need to learn Ruby I wanted to write a quick program to download all the episodes to my harddisk and watch them using Plex Media Center. There’s probably a million different utilities (or podcast managers) that can do that, but using them I won’t learn to program Ruby that way. There’s probably a better way of doing this, but hey, do it and post a comment.
require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'
doc = Hpricot.XML(open("http://feeds.feedburner.com/railscasts"))
(doc/"enclosure").each do |para|
filename = File.basename(para[:url])
puts "== Found a file #{filename}"
open(filename,"w").write(open(para[:url]).read)
end
require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'
doc = Hpricot.XML(open("http://feeds.feedburner.com/railscasts"))
(doc/"enclosure").each do |para|
filename = File.basename(para[:url])
puts "== Found a file #{filename}"
open(filename,"w").write(open(para[:url]).read)
end
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