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CLI app to get podcast feed URLs

I've been getting into podcasts recently, and I've noticed that, a) a lot of clients expect you to just give them the RSS feeds that you want to subscribe to, and b) those RSS feeds aren't always easy to find.

So I kludged up a small script to query for them.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env bash



if [[ "$1" == "" ]]; then

  exit 1

fi



PODCAST=$(http "https://itunes.apple.com/search?media=podcast&term=$1" | jq -r '.results[].collectionName' | fzf --select-1 --exit-0)



if [[ "$PODCAST" == "" ]]; then

  exit

fi



echo "$PODCAST"

http "https://itunes.apple.com/search?media=podcast&term=$PODCAST" | jq -r '.results[0].feedUrl'

Name it "podfeed" and call it like this:

Code:

podfeed "You Must Remember"

That currently gives you a menu of two choices:

You Must Remember Manson
You Must Remember This

Narrow down the list by typing, or use the arrow keys to make a selection, and press ENTER.

Then you'll see:

Code:

You Must Remember Manson

http://feeds.megaphone.fm/PPY3689373157

Note that this uses a fairly modern pipeline, specifically:

I'll decline to link to the iTunes search API documentation, as all I did was look at what CPod does:

https://github.com/z-------------/CP...ch-podcasts.js

For more ideas on what you can do with FZF, see here:

How FZF and ripgrep improved my workflow

That's pretty neat, Dugan. My only question is whether it would be better to store the result of the first search in a variable, that way you don't need to call the same URL again?
Something like this?

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env bash



data="$(<1.txt)"

feedNames="$(<<<"$data" jq '.results[].collectionName')"

<<<"$data" jq -r ".results[] | select(.collectionName == $(fzy <<< "$feedNames")) | .feedUrl"

EDIT: By the way, I use fzy, but it works just the same with fzf.

I wrote another implementation using skim. This one will just give you a prompt and an autocomplete. It's slightly less responsive because it's sending a request to itunes with each keystroke.

pdfd script to make it work:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env bash



if [[ "$1" == "" ]]; then

  exit 1

fi



http "https://itunes.apple.com/search?media=podcast&term=$1" | jq -r '.results[].collectionName'

The new podfeed script you actually run:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env bash



PODCAST=$(sk --ansi -i -c 'pdfd "{}" &')



if [[ "$PODCAST" == "" ]]; then

  exit

fi



URL=$(http "https://itunes.apple.com/search?media=podcast&term=$PODCAST" | jq -r '.results[0].feedUrl')



echo "$URL" "$PODCAST"

And do you want to know what else I did? I wrote my own podcast aggregator, Podfeeds.