uraniacast

1 Overview

uraniacast is a non-interactive podcast downloader written entirely in Tcl. It works from the command line.

Its configuration is extremely easy. The minimum configuration file is:

     set feed(comp.this_developers_life) {
     	url {http://feeds.feedburner.com/thisdeveloperslife}
     }

That's all! ‘comp.this_developers_life’ is just the name that we've given to a particular podcast feed.

uraniacast supports:

Filtering by categories and media types. For example, if the feed contains links to both video and audio and you want just audio.
Auto-processing podcast files after downloading them (for example, to change/add ID3 mp3 tags or to convert from ogg to mp3 or whatever).
OPML import/export.

2 Releases

Current version of uraniacast is 0.17. It was released on Apr, 24 03:13:51 2011.

What's new?

3 Requirements

Tcl 8.5.x or newer;
SQLite 3.x (with Tcl bindings!);
tDOM 0.8.2 (or newer);
HTTP retriever such as wget, curl or FreeBSD fetch(1).
(optionally) TclX 8.4 or newer.

4 Supported Platforms

FreeBSD 8.2 (the most tested)
Linux (Fedora 12, Ubuntu 9.04)

5 Download

Packages: sourceforge page.

There are FreeBSD 8.2 and Ubuntu 9.04 packages, Fedora 12 rpm and the source tarball. Take a look into README file (in the source package) especially if you are installing the FreeBSD package.

Source tree: gitweb.

Grab the latest source:

     git clone git://uraniacast.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/uraniacast/uraniacast

6 Screen Shots

uraniacast is a command line utility, so “screen shots” are not applicable in our case, but you may look at the log from a typical run of the program.

7 How to Help

Please send me a mail either to report a bug (particularly with a strange podcast feed that uraniacast cannot understand) or to contribute fixes and improvements.

8 License and Copyright

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License