Shell and PowerShell Scripts to Download Sam Harris Making Sense Full Subscriber Podcast Episodes for Free

download-making-sense-powershell-script.ps1

#https://blog.travisflix.com/download-sam-harris-making-sense-full-subscriber-podcast-episodes-for-free/
# Tested with PowerShell 5.1 on Windows and PowerShell 7.5.4 on Linux

# Fetch RSS feed and extract MP3 URLs and output to file
(Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://rss.samharris.org/feed/5b624f14-e923-4a75-aeb9-77d11773fb91').Content -split "`n" | 
    Where-Object { $_ -like '*mp3*' } |
    ForEach-Object { 
        $_ -replace '      <enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="' -replace '"/>'
    } | Out-File -FilePath '.\feed5b624f14.txt' -Encoding utf8

# Download files (skip if already exist)
$urls = Get-Content -Path '.\feed5b624f14.txt'
foreach ($url in $urls) {
    $filename = [System.IO.Path]::GetFileName($url.Split('?')[0])
    $destinationPath = Join-Path -Path $pwd.Path -ChildPath $fileName
    if (-not (Test-Path $destinationPath)) {
        Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -OutFile $filename
    }
}

download-making-sense-shell-script-prompt.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#https://blog.travisflix.com/download-sam-harris-making-sense-full-subscriber-podcast-episodes-for-free/

# This version downloads the latest episode and then prompts asking you whether you
# would like to continue downloading the rest or not.

SKIP=false;curl -s 'https://rss.samharris.org/feed/5b624f14-e923-4a75-aeb9-77d11773fb91'|grep '.mp3'| \
sed -E 's/\s+<enclosure length="0" type="audio\/mpeg" url="//;s/"\/>//' >./feed5b624f14.txt&& \
while read url;do filename=${url##*/};filename=${filename%%\?*}; echo "Processing record: $filename"
wget -c -nc $url -O $filename; [ "$SKIP" = false ] && \
read -p "Do you want to continue downloading the rest? (Yy/Nn):" Q </dev/tty
[[ $Q =~ [Yy] ]] && SKIP=true || break; done <feed5b624f14.txt

download-making-sense-shell-script.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#https://blog.travisflix.com/download-sam-harris-making-sense-full-subscriber-podcast-episodes-for-free/

# If you only want the latest podcast episode instead of downloading all of them, you can add
# a break; right after the wget command which would be the last command before the done command.

curl -s 'https://rss.samharris.org/feed/5b624f14-e923-4a75-aeb9-77d11773fb91' | grep '.mp3' | \
sed -E 's/\s+<enclosure length="0" type="audio\/mpeg" url="//;s/"\/>//' > ./feed5b624f14.txt && \
while read url; do filename=${url##*/}; filename=${filename%%\?*}; wget -c -nc $url -O $filename; done < feed5b624f14.txt

Greetings, great work, this has been very useful script but it seems like the rss link is no longer valid, would it be possible to check it please?

Greetings, great work, this has been very useful script but it seems like the rss link is no longer valid, would it be possible to check it please?

@greyfux I have updated both scripts with a valid working identifier. If you want more information on this subject I recommend checking out my blog post. There's also some good info in the comments near the very bottom.

Very cool - thanks

Very cool - thanks

No prob 👍