To reiterate - "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."
I am only providing part time assistance to this station. The staff is
doing well with Rivendell. However, anything else is out of their realm.
They want to be able to make their own changes with programming and
retrieval. That mandates staying within whatever Rivendell does. They
have training and documentation to use Rivendell and I can walk them
through pretty much anything over the phone. External cron jobs,
scripts, and other convoluted gymnastics goes against my support plan.
They were in the pickle they were in previously with an engineer who did
many things with "creative solutions" that were undocumented and outside
the normal operations of things over the last many years, then
evaporated leaving them hanging.
Whatever I set up needs to be within the documented system, so if I get
hit by a truck next week, they are not again left hanging.
Michael
chris cottingham wrote on 12/17/20 3:52 PM:
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.
Sent from my iPhone
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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