Hi,

I did something similar a while ago to download Democracy Now (which
also has some of the same download issues - goes through a redirect - as
explained below).  I did pretty much the same thing, but using wget.

Also I didn't get fancy with anything like a 0.8 second cart or anything
like that - I've just got a Macro in Rivendell which runs through
RDCatch, which in turn calls a script that downloads via wget and then
does the rdimport.

Since redirects are coming more common, I wonder if the ability to
follow such redirects can be added into RDCatch (this is presuming it
isn't already there - as with others I was unable to make this type of
thing work straight through RDCatch with Democracy Now).




> We have a similar situation with Pacifica's Free Speech Radio News (FSRN).
> Their downloadable file is available at 4pm-ish CST, and we play it at 5pm
> CST. They post their downloadable file with a different URL based upon the
> current day's date, which confounds RDCatch. We wrote a shell script to do
> what we need.
>
> N.B. I have not plumbed the depths of RDCatch, so we may indeed have
> duplicated something that RDCatch can already do with aplomb, yet remains
> beyond our current grasp of it.
> 
> Our shell script properly formats the download URL to include the current
> date, then downloads it with curl and RDImports it into the cart.



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