Scripts to download the entire run of geeknights
In case anyone else wants to grab the entire (at least as far as I can tell) run of the show, since the RSS feed doesn't go all the way back, I've written two short and somewhat kludgey bash scripts for downloading all of the episode mp3 files. The gist containing them is here:
https://gist.github.com/bwkeller/075ec6179daa29ecf4d5I'm curious to see if anyone knows of episodes I've missed. These fetch everything past 31-10-2005.
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wget -rH -Dtraffic.libsyn.com,apreche.net -A mp3 http://www.frontrowcrew.com
wget gets things from the web
-r makes it go recursively
-H makes it recurse over hosts
-D limits it to recursing onto traffic.libsyn.com and apreche.net
-A makes it only get mp3's
http://www.frontrowcrew.com makes it start on www.frontrowcrew.com
It would crawl the whole site, everything reachable by link anyway. I don't know what kind of server it's running on, but you might DOS it.
Unless they're linked to somewhere, that is...
I'm not sure how libsyn's billing is, but downloading 41 gigs at once might be kind of a dick move as far as bandwidth fees and the aformentioned DOS. If you do, however, and you intend to keep them all I suggest making a bittorrent sync of them for the few other people who might be interested, so we don't have several people hitting their server really hard.
I thought R&S used libsyn because they charge a flat rate no matter how much bandwidth you use. And I'm sure they have plenty of tubes to handle ~40 GB. But then you're downloading 40 gigs of two guys going on about NYC and bikes.
#reqs %bytes last time file
3180 7.50% Feb/ 1/15 12:43 AM /audio/SFBRP #261 - Neal Asher - The Voyage of the Sable Keech.mp3
2603 9.78% Feb/ 1/15 12:30 AM /audio/SFBRP #260 - Iain M Banks - The Hydrogen Sonata.mp3
1647 3.80% Feb/ 1/15 12:28 AM /audio/SFBRP #259 - Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance.mp3
1229 2.42% Jan/31/15 11:08 PM /audio/SFBRP #257 - Interstellar.mp3
674 Feb/ 1/15 12:45 AM /
650 1.36% Jan/31/15 11:13 PM /audio/SFBRP #256 - Peter F Hamilton - Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained.mp3
566 0.19% Jan/31/15 11:46 PM /audio/SFBRP #193 - Lois McMaster Bujold - Barrayar.mp3
551 0.23% Jan/31/15 11:50 PM /audio/SFBRP #214 - Alastair Reynolds - On the Steel Breeze.mp3
485 Feb/ 1/15 12:09 AM /robots.txt
475 0.84% Jan/31/15 11:09 PM /audio/SFBRP #252 - The Hugulas - Every novel that won both a Hugo and Nebula award.mp3
457 0.69% Jan/31/15 11:14 PM /audio/SFBRP #258 - Nancy Kress - Beggars in Spain.mp3
449 0.99% Jan/31/15 7:46 AM /audio/SFBRP #190 - Steven Erikson - Malazan Book of the Fallen #1 - Gardens of the Moon.mp3
441 0.47% Jan/31/15 10:59 PM /audio/SFBRP #238 - David Brin - Startide Rising.mp3
434 2.03% Jan/31/15 11:11 PM /audio/SFBRP #255 - Ernest Cline - Ready Player One.mp3
388 0.18% Jan/31/15 7:45 AM /audio/SFBRP #057 - John Scalzi - Old Man's War.mp3
364 0.28% Feb/ 1/15 12:58 AM /audio/SFBRP #227 - Rudy Rucker - Software and Wetware.mp3
361 1.44% Jan/31/15 7:04 PM /audio/SFBRP #180 - Philip K Dick - The Man in the High Castle.mp3
344 0.30% Jan/31/15 10:14 PM /audio/SFBRP #154 - Ted Chiang - Stories of Your Life and Others.mp3
342 0.06% Jan/31/15 7:19 AM /audio/SFBRP #062 - Stephen Donaldson - The Real Story.mp3
329 1.56% Jan/31/15 7:42 AM /audio/SFBRP #174 - Frank Herbert - Dune.mp3
319 1.55% Jan/31/15 1:05 PM /audio/SFBRP #200 - Top Science Fiction Novels and Series.mp3
317 0.81% Jan/31/15 11:06 PM /audio/SFBRP #254 - Peter F Hamilton - The Abyss Beyond Dreams.mp3
287 1.00% Jan/31/15 11:07 PM /audio/SFBRP #237 - Larry Niven - Ringworld.mp3
287 0.73% Jan/31/15 11:05 PM /audio/SFBRP #247 - Isaac Asimov - The Gods Themselves.mp3
278 0.89% Jan/31/15 11:14 PM /audio/SFBRP #250 - Listener Suggestions for the Special 250th Episode.mp3
278 0.54% Jan/31/15 11:01 PM /audio/SFBRP #253 - Jeff VanderMeer - Southern Reach #1 - Annihilation.mp3
267 1.39% Jan/31/15 1:14 PM /audio/SFBRP #212 - Andy Weir - The Martian.mp3
254 0.65% Jan/31/15 7:33 AM /audio/SFBRP #099 - Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind.mp3
251 0.51% Jan/31/15 7:48 AM /audio/SFBRP #114 - Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn #1 - The Final Empire.mp3
251 0.40% Jan/31/15 7:44 AM /audio/SFBRP #120 - Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself.mp3
20802 57.43% Feb/ 1/15 12:55 AM [not listed: 268 files]
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Would it be rude or incorrect to set up a torrent of the episodes? Maybe by year? I don't know how much Rym or Scott care about keeping track of downloads, but it would be easier than downloading them one by one.