MP3::PodcastFetch 1.01

MP3::PodcastFetch is a Perl module to fetch and manage a podcast subscription.

SYNOPSIS

use MP3::PodcastFetch;
my $feed = MP3::PodcastFetch->new(-base => /tmp/podcasts,
-rss => http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=500001
-rewrite_filename => 1,
-upgrade_tag => auto);
$feed->fetch_pods;
print "fetched ",$feed->fetched," new podcastsn";
for my $file ($feed->fetched_files) {
print $file,"n";
}

This package provides a convenient and simple way of mirroring the podcasts described by an RSS feed into a local directory. It was written as the backend for the fetch_pods.pl script.

To use it, create an MP3::PodcastFetch object with the required -base and -rss arguments. The podcasts listed in the RSS subscription file located at the -rss URL will be mirrored into one or more subdirectories located beneath the path at -base. One subdirectory will be created for each channel specified by the RSS. Additional new() arguments control optional features of this module.

Once the object is created, call its fetch_pods() method to download the RSS file, parse it, and mirror the subscribed podcasts locally.