hpodder VS python-scripts

Many people have given their "why," but I'll give another "how".

castget¹ is a simple tool that does exactly what you want, just add a feed URL and it pulls all the episodes. It has a nice catchup mode so you can add feeds that you've listened to elsewhere without pulling all the old episodes too. hpodder² is another tool I've used in the past, but I can't remember why I switched.

Depending on how much you like cobbling together your own solution html-xml-utils³ makes it incredibly easy to script a solution. For example, "curl feed | hxselect -c -s '\n' 'enclosure::attr(url)'" would list just the URLs. feedparser⁴ is a battle tested solution for processing feeds if you'd prefer a proper solution over a hacky shell script.

¹ https://castget.johndal.com/

² https://github.com/jgoerzen/hpodder/

³ https://www.w3.org/Tools/HTML-XML-utils/

⁴ https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser

I think that help() is great too, but I'm not a fan of the interactive nature of it. I'd rather the raw text just get dumped to a file so I can browse it more easily, so I do something like this[1] to print the output of both the help() and dir() functions on any Python object to a text file in the current directory. That way it's a bit easier to search through if it's a lot of info.

[1] https://github.com/EricRa/python-scripts/blob/main/modules/p...

Despite there being many good solutions and suggestions from people here, I ended up creating my own podcast downloader as a learning experience:

https://github.com/EricRa/python-scripts/tree/main/modules/p...

Appreciate everyone's suggestions and time!