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

Very cool - thanks

No prob 👍