September 11, 2012

ABC Radio Shows Streaming Ripper

Filed under: Technical — Tags: , , , — James Bunton @ 7:29 pm

This code is obsolete and probably doesn’t work anymore.

Most ABC radio shows are available to download as MP3s, usually with a convenient podcast feed. Unfortunately sometimes, probably due to copyright stupidity, they make a programme available only by Windows Media or RealPlayer streaming. I’ve written a simple tool to snatch this streaming audio from ABC’s servers.

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WebDL: ABC iView and SBS Downloader

Filed under: Technical — Tags: , , , , , — James Bunton @ 7:16 pm

WebDL is a collection of Web TV downloader scripts with a consistent user interface. I’ve previously released these separately, but a while ago I refactored them to share common code and packaged them into a single utility. You can use this interactively or to download any shows matching a glob from a cronjob. Currently supported are ABC iView and SBS OnDemand. I’ll probably add more in the future.

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