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Download podcast episodes from Stitcher for offline usage

Mon, 28 Mar 2022 13:58:54 +0200

I love the podcast Philosophize This!. It is freely available, but there is no meaningful way to download all episodes without using a third party app. As a data hoarder I want to have every episode on my hard disk. Therefore I created a simple script to download the episodes from Stitcher.

Download full playlists and all songs by an artist from SoundCloud

Tue, 13 May 2014 07:53:13 +0000

Introduction

First of all I want to apologise for what I’m writing about in this post. SoundCloud is a music platform where you can listen to almost every song for free. This is a great network and only works as long users don’t download the songs from SoundCloud. Great artists advertise their content to get more attention, the last thing they want is that you’ll download their songs. However there’s no way to prevent people from doing so, as you will see not even the guys behind SoundCloud can prevent their content from being downloaded. I’d ask you to donate for or buy the songs from the artists you like on SoundCloud.

Backup Public GitHub Gists

Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:52:32 +0000

To manage my code snippets I’m using GitHubGist connected with Gistbox.

Sadly none of this services providing a backup nor a download function for the gist files. That’s why I came upwith the idea to download them with PowerShell script.

For first my script only can download public gists, because I don’t know how to implement an authentication, luckily each of my gists is public. I recommend you to do the same, it’s the idea of OpenSource.

So here’s the script: