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Python script to download all the Last Tuesday Society podcasts in one swoop
#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
"""
Python script to download all the Last Tuesday Society podcasts in one swoop
Find them here: http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/podcasts.html
Run with 'python lasttuesdaysocietypodcast.py'
Depends on requests and Beautiful soup
"""
from requests import get
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, SoupStrainer
BASE = "http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/"
def download():
r = get(BASE + "podcasts.html").content
soup = BeautifulSoup(r)
for link in soup.findAll('a'):
if "http" not in link['href'] and "pdf" not in link["href"] and "mp3" not in link["href"] and "html" in link["href"]:
try:
print "Downloading ", link['href']
r = get(BASE + link['href']).content
page = BeautifulSoup(r)
for link in page.findAll('embed'):
if "images/podcasts/" in link["src"] and "mp3" in link["src"]:
print "Downloading mp3..."
f = open(link["src"][16:], 'wb')
r = get( BASE + link["src"])
for chunk in r.iter_content():
f.write(chunk)
print "Done."
except:
print "Error"
if __name__ == '__main__':
download()
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