Bash script to download all the episodes in a podcast XML feed

download-podcast-feed.sh

#!/bin/bash

SAVE_DIR=$1

# Check the availiable podcasts and download them to local storage
# TODO: Split up at some point since files could potentially be too big
for url in "${@:2}"
do
  str=$(wget -P $SAVE_DIR -q -O- $url | grep -o '<enclosure [^>]*url="[^"]*' | grep -o '[^"]*$' | head -n 1)

  str=${str##*/}

  # Replace url encoding spaces with real ones
  str=${str//%20/ }
  wget -P $SAVE_DIR -q -O- $url | grep -o '<enclosure [^>]*url="[^"]*' | grep -o '[^"]*$' | xargs wget -c -P $SAVE_DIR > /dev/null
done