Can't download "This Week in Linux"

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Can't download "This Week in Linux" #92

Closed thomasboehm closed 5 years ago

thomasboehm commented 6 years ago

Hi,

I hope this is the right place to ask my question. I use greg with a few podcasts. Some are on Youtube and some are not. My helper script looks whether the video is on Youtube or not and uses either wget or youtube-dl accordingly. So far so good.

Now try to add "This Week in Linux" with the feed url https://tuxdigital.com/category/shows/this-week-in-linux/feed. I added the feed with

greg add "This Week in Linux" https://tuxdigital.com/category/shows/this-week-in-linux/feed

and ran

greg check -f "This Week in Linux"

This returns a list of 15 episodes. When I try to download 1 episode it just does nothing. No error message, it just returns to the prompt. The helper script does not get executed.

~~The same happens when I use their Youtube channel~~

~~https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCmyGZ0689ODyReHw3rsKLtQ~~

Am I doing something wrong or is there a problem with these particular feed?

Edit: The Youtube feed works. I had a typo in my config.

Strubbl commented 5 years ago

You are using a feed without enclosures. If you want only the mp3s or oggs, use the appropiate feed. If you want the videos, you need to add the youtube's feed for that channel. The feed URLs can be found e.g. here

thomasboehm commented 5 years ago

I have "ignoreenclosures = yes" in my config for the Youtube channel and as I wrote, Youtube works.

I'm having problems with the RSS feed on their site. I want the video feed. After adding "ignoreenclosures = yes" to that, it seems to download the video and the description, but the video file only contains the HTML code of the feed's site. The URL I'm using is the one from my first post.

Strubbl commented 5 years ago

just directly add the youtube channel of This Week in Linux to greg

thomasboehm commented 5 years ago

Yes, that's what I'm doing right now. But I thought you might want to fix a bug in greg, if it is a bug. It also could be a problem with the feed. I don't know.

And who knows if Google decides in the future to disable the RSS feeds for the Youtube channels. Wouldn't be the first time they do something like this...

manolomartinez commented 5 years ago

Hey, I've been looking into that feed, and the information it provides does not include the youtube links, so greg's behavior seems entirely correct here, unless I am mistaken. Closing for now, but feel free to reopen if I am missing anything.

thomasboehm commented 5 years ago

Hi,

I think you have mistaken me. I never said that the feed contains Youtube links. Youtube is what I'm using as a "workaround" at the moment. But I rather not rely on this as Google is known for changing API's etc.

The feed https://tuxdigital.com/category/shows/this-week-in-linux/feed contains the following:

...
<link>https://tuxdigital.com/2019/04/episode-63-this-week-in-linux/</link>
...

This link is not the direct link to the video. This link leads to the web page of the episode which contains the video among other things.

So my question was, if greg behaves correctly and the problem lies within the way this feed presents the links or greg does it wrong.

manolomartinez commented 5 years ago

I'd say greg is doing the right thing. It's impossible for it to know that it should follow through that webpage onto a video link.

On the other hand, if you'd absolutely prefer to use the official feed, it should be relatively easy to create a custom downloadhandler that read that webpage, retrieved the video link and downloaded it. Does that make sense?

thomasboehm commented 5 years ago

ok, thanks. I'll look into that.