Download Alpha Centauri Episodes

downloader.sh

# first get all xml files with the download link
for url in $(curl http://www.br.de/fernsehen/ard-alpha/sendungen/alpha-centauri/alle-videos/index.html | egrep -o 'href="(.*[^"])" .* title="zur Übersicht' | awk -F "\"" '{ print $2 }'); do
    for videourl in $(curl http://www.br.de/$url | egrep -o 'href="(.*[^"])" .* title="zum Video' | awk -F "\"" '{ print $2 }'); do
        xmlfile=$(curl http://www.br.de/$videourl | egrep -o "dataUrl:'(.*[^'])'" | awk -F "'" '{ print $2 }')
        wget http://www.br.de/$xmlfile
    done
done

# second get the actual file
for file in *.xml; do
    title=$(xpath -e './/title/text()' $file)
    url=$(xpath -e './/asset[@type="PREMIUM"]/downloadUrl/text()' $file)
    wget -c "$url" -O "$title.mp4"
done

# you could merge step one and two if you like...

# convert wrong encoding in filenames:
convmv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 --notest *.mp4