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First, let me thank you for showing me: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/ http://www.npr.org/podcasts/ ... which I have bookmarked and which largely solves my usab
by rsync 9y ago
First, let me thank you for showing me:
http://www.npr.org/podcasts/ http://www.npr.org/podcasts/
... which I have bookmarked and which largely solves my usability problem with npr(.org).
However, the general problem - which is that it's always a pain to find a static link to a regular file - persists. Not every publisher has a nice page like this. In fact, some of them have no way to get an actual file without subscribing or rss-reading or "listen now"-ing.
The simple test is this: is there a link that I can right-click, and copy, and feed to curl without any doctoring or scripting ?
Most publishers fail this test.
- pault 9y agoMy favorite workaround for this is starting the audio stream with chrome dev tools open and right clicking the network request and selecting "copy as curl". It's still more work but it's pretty bulletproof since the request it makes is identical to the one that comes from the browser.