Downloads all episodes of the Internet Box podcast straight from their website using Requests

download-internet-box.py

# download internetbox episodes (2/6/2019)
#
# super quick script to download all episodes of the Internet Box podcast

import requests

# download function (this is a super useful function in general)
def download(url, file_name):
	# open in binary mode
	with open(file_name, "wb") as file:
		# get request
		response = requests.get(url)
		# write to file
		file.write(response.content)


# we have to download epsiode 1 separately beacuse it's an ogg file (why mike?)
download(f"https://traffic.libsyn.com/internetbox/InternetBoxEpisode1.ogg", f"InternetBox 001.ogg")


# create a list of all episode numbers, including x1-3
episodeNums = list(range(2,128))
episodeNums += ["x", "xx", "xxx"]


# loop through all episode numbers and download the files
for num in episodeNums:

	# set flush to true beacuse they weren't printing without it
	print(f"Downloading epsiode {num}...", flush=True)
	
	# the url is constant thoughout episode numbers, so we just place the episode number there
	download(f"https://traffic.libsyn.com/internetbox/InternetBoxEpisode{num}.mp3", f"InternetBox {num}.mp3")