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Episode: 3959
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Title: HPR3959: Download any HPR series with english file names
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3959/hpr3959.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 17:58:20
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3959 for Thursday the 5th of October 2023.
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Today's show is entitled, Download any HPR series with English file names.
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It is part of the series' bash scripting.
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It is the first show by Newhost Gem Law, and is about three minutes long.
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It carries an explicit flag.
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The summary is, a directory with the series name will be created and all shows will be renamed to show title dot MP3 inside it.
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Hello all. This is Gem Log from Terrace B.C., Canada, just up near the Alaska Panhandle.
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Some of you may know me from incontrad on SDF.org or as if it isn't on the Tilda Dot's own instance of Mascodon.
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Now, the other day I finally got around to checking out HPR properly, even though my Mascopal Claudio M turned me on to it a couple of years ago.
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I had just never gotten around to it.
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Recently on a Friday night in IRC until the radio I noticed there were whole series on HPR and not only single shows.
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And that got me kind of excited. I guess I'm easily excited.
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Anyhow, something I could listen to at work or while driving.
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Still, I managed to forget about it until just before I was leaving the house for work on Monday morning.
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I rushed to copy over a few shows nearly at random onto my phone and headed out for work.
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After I got my morning sorted out, I told BLC to play all and enjoy a couple of shows.
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I noticed that each show I had chosen had a big post at the beginning.
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I figured I could make one on at least something from my Mascopal Gem Log vendor.
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I've been accumulating stuff in there for decades.
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However, after break, I came back and couldn't remember which 4-digit number dot MP3 I had finished up on, which mildly irked me.
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Well, as we all know, IRC becomes itch.
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And I put my sad, regic skills to test scraping the HPR website with a custom bash script later when I got home.
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A very custom bash script.
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I call scrapers if any of the guys at HPR even breed the wrong way, it will probably break horribly.
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On the other hand, I've had scrapers that look just as sad running for many years against a Canadian government site, so who knows.
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All the script uses are some built-ins from bash along with sad and w-get for the actual getting.
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My local instance of search and g was left smoking as I scrambled for sad incantations to string together, and not a sad guy.
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Usage is simple, as the script only accepts one argument.
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The 4-digit series number of the show we want to download.
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It will create a der with a series name, and download every MP3 it finds, renaming each show to the show title.
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I was tempted to doll it up with some niceties like options for a download der or a selector for a series with a dialogue of some kind, yadda yadda yadda.
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But we all know what happens when you stretch a quick app with a bash script too far for the scripting language.
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Hours of misery wishing you'd started with some other language.
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So far I've used the script to download H series.
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DU-SH tells me they add up to 2.2 gigs, so it seems to work well enough.
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It comes with the same ironclad warranty as everything I write.
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If it breaks, you get to keep all the pieces. Thanks for listening.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio, and Hacker Public Radio does work.
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Today's show was contributed by a HBR listener like yourself.
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Unless otherwise stated, today's show is released under Creative Commons, Attribution, 4.0 International License.
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