I have a hunch that could be what NPR is doing, unfortunately. I like to listen to Morning Edition later in the day sometimes, and there's no podcast for that.
I was wondering how hard it would be to scrape (<UGH!>) the download links on the Rundown page? From a scraping perspective, it looks pretty easy, but putting the logic into a plugin might take some more work. http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=3 The Rundown page already has the MP3 direct link, it has the date navigation to go back and forth in time (a few months, it looks like). Since they're using templates (yeah!), a generic scraper could be created. I'm up for writing the scraping logic, but I'm so out of touch on plugins, I wouldn't know where to start. .... brain spinning .... Actually, it looks like you have that already covered with your Parsers directory. The source file is pretty well blocked out - you look for the 2nd "<!-- END CLASS="STORYCONTENT" -->" Then look for the next <input> field and parse the value ("<input type="hidden" id="title152653944" value="Presbyterians Have Varied Views On Gay Marriage"></input>" then you look for the next download link, and grab the URL ("<li><a class="download" href="http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2012/05/20120514_me_01.mp3?dl=1";><span>Download</span></a></li>") Any tips on how I could try and implement this? Thanks! -Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ plympton's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12955 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95118 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
