This is a template script for downloading TiVo files and decoding them.

Tivo Download Script

#!/bin/bash
#
tivo_ip='192.168.1.1'
mak='1234567890'
in_dir='/path/to/videos/tivo_files/in'
out_dir='/path/to/videos/tivo_files/out'
useragent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1'
curl_opt="-v --location-trusted --digest -u tivo:${mak} -c cookies.txt --insecure"
# =============================================================================
 
 
# Download tivo programs
for url in 'program_name?rest&of&url'; do
 
	file_name=${url##*/}
	file_name=${file_name%%\?*}
	file_name=$(echo $file_name | sed -e 's/%20/_/g')
	in_path="${in_dir}/${file_name}"
	#echo $in_path
 
	full_url="http://${tivo_ip}:80/download/${url}"
 
	curl $curl_opt -A "$useragent" -o "$in_path" "$full_url"
 
done
 
sleep 5
 
# Strip tivo DRM
for ITEM in `find "$in_dir" -type f -iname '*.tivo' | sed -e 's/ /[SPACE]/g'` ; do
 
    # unescape spaces
    declare FILEPATH
    FILEPATH=`echo $ITEM | sed -e 's/\[SPACE\]/ /g'`
 
	if [ -r "$FILEPATH" ] ; then
 
		file_name=${FILEPATH##*/}
 
		tivodecode -n -m $mak -o "${out_dir}/${file_name}.mpg" "$FILEPATH"
 
		sleep 5
 
		mv "$FILEPATH" "${in_dir}/${file_name}.bak"
	fi
done
 
exit 0