liukonen / podload

This is a command line based tool, that pulls from a compressed configuration RSS feed info used to download podcasts. Works with both Mp3 and video based feeds This project dates back to 2008 or 2009 in Visual basic, with a rewrite for performance and smaller EXE size in 2010 in C#. Since then small changes such as extra tools from new frameworks, (Linq, Tasks, parallel) has been added. This was created in a need to have my media center autodownload RSS based feeds such as revision 3 videos and podcasts. It uses a "ZIN" file, which is nothing more then a compressed XML file. (should have named it a GZ file, or something else, but whatever) My personal use for this app involves having a directory in my "My Videos" folder, and having a scheduled task once a week execute the app. The app pulls the xml feed, extracts the URL's to download, and then downloads the files in feed directories. I wanted however to implement some kind of version system, which is why I added this to codeplex. I'm hoping this app can either help someone else with the task of autodownloading podcasts, or with the help of the Open source community, it can become something greater.

Podload

This is a command line based tool, that pulls from a compressed configuration RSS feed info used to download podcasts. Works with both Mp3 and video based feeds.

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This project dates back to 2008 or 2009 in Visual basic, with a rewrite for performance and smaller EXE size in 2010 in C#. Since then small changes such as extra tools from new frameworks, (Linq, Tasks, parallel) has been added. This was created in a need to have my media center autodownload RSS based feeds such as revision 3 videos and podcasts. It uses a "ZIN" file, which is nothing more then a compressed XML file. (should have named it a GZ file, or something else, but whatever)
My personal use for this app involves having a directory in my "My Videos" folder, and having a scheduled task once a week execute the app. The app pulls the xml feed, extracts the URL's to download, and then downloads the files in feed directories.
I wanted however to implement some kind of version system, which is why I added this to codeplex Github. I'm hoping this app can either help someone else with the task of autodownloading podcasts, or with the help of the Open source community, it can become something greater.

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I have confirmed as well that this application, when compiled using mono, works well on Linux systems. I have deployed it on my Linux mint machine, and using a Cron job, I have it scheduled to continue downloading my rss feeds since my move off windows for my home server. There are a few changes that need to be made, in order to make it work, which I will one day (soon) move up into my source control (once I find them :/)

2024-03-02 - Migrated the code to GoLang... will not release a binary at this time, but go is fairly easy to compile. Thanks to both ChatGPT and Tabby with ideas / reference materials on how to do this.

Learnings

• Mono Development
• Parallel programing design practices
• System Task Library
• Basic file transfer over network
• XML
• Linq
• Compression
• Go Programing