Maybe you can do an intermediary download with a program that can deal with the 
file structure to a folder on your RD server? Then Set RD To import from your 
folder?

Just thinking off the top of my head. 





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> On Dec 17, 2020, at 3:50 PM, wa7skg <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> No RSS feed. I tried
> 
> ftp.hostname.com/program/%Y-%m%d/%m%d_program_*.mp3
> 
> but both %d wildcards pull the same day each time. The first one needs to 
> keep Monday's date while the second one does Monday through Friday.
> 
> I need to keep this all within rdcatch, no scripts or exotic solutions. If it 
> can't be done in rdcatch, then the staff will have to go back to manual daily 
> downloads like they were doing prior to Rivendell.
> 
> Michael
> 
> David Klann wrote on 12/17/20 2:32 PM:
>> Hi Michael
>>> On 12/17/20 1:02 PM, you wrote:
>>> 
>>> Yes, there are more.
>>> 
>>> One program I need to download has a troublesome file structure.
>>> 
>>> There is a folder for the program, then a folder for each week beginning
>>> on Monday. The weekly folder holds the files for that week. For example:
>>> 
>>> ftp.hostname.com/program/2020-1214/1214_program_episode-name.mp3
>>> ftp.hostname.com/program/2020-1214/1215_program_episode-name.mp3
>>> ftp.hostname.com/program/2020-1214/1216_program_episode-name.mp3
>>> ftp.hostname.com/program/2020-1214/1217_program_episode-name.mp3
>>> ftp.hostname.com/program/2020-1214/1218_program_episode-name.mp3
>>> 
>>> ftp.hostname.com/program/2020-1221/1221_program_episode-name.mp3
>>> ftp.hostname.com/program/2020-1221/1222_program_episode-name.mp3
>>> ftp.hostname.com/program/2020-1221/1223_program_episode-name.mp3
>>> ftp.hostname.com/program/2020-1221/1224_program_episode-name.mp3
>>> ftp.hostname.com/program/2020-1221/1225_program_episode-name.mp3
>>> 
>> This looks to me like:
>> ftp.hostname.com/program/%Y-%m%d/%m%d_program_episode-name.mp3
>> This only works if "program_episode-name" does not change from episode
>> to episode. At this time, Rivendell does not support arbitrary
>> differences in download filenames. Does this program have an RSS feed?
>> If so, I might be able to help with a script I wrote specifically for
>> downloading and ingesting audio from an RSS feed.
>>    ~David Klann
>>> etc.
>>> 
>>> I can't figure out how to set up a wildcard to deal with the weekly
>>> folder with Monday's date.
>>> 
>>> This is a popular program that quite a few stations carry, so I'm sure
>>> there must be a way to automate it.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for any ideas.
>>> 
>>> Michael
>>> 
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