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.

Here is the script:

# Get list of all episodes
curl 'https://api.prod.stitcher.com/show/philosophize-this/latestEpisodes?count=200' | jq '.' > podcast.json
# Process data and download episode if not downloaded yet
jq -c '.data.episodes[] | {title: .title, slug: .slug, url: .audio_url}' podcast.json | while read e; do 
    TITLE=$(echo "$e" | jq -r .title)
    SLUG=$(echo "$e" | jq -r .slug)
    URL=$(echo "$e" | jq -r .url)

    if [ -f "$SLUG.mp3" ]; then
        echo "File $SLUG.mp3 already exists."
    else
        echo "Download $TITLE ..."
        curl -L "$URL" -o "$SLUG.mp3" --progress-bar
    fi
done

And here it is in action:

janikvonrotz@pop-os:~/Downloads$ ./podcast.sh                               
File episode-163-the-creation-of-meaning-escape-from-evil-90885817.mp3 already exists.
File episode-162-the-creation-of-meaning-the-denial-of-death-89963729.mp3 already exists.
File episode-161-karl-popper-the-open-society-and-its-enemies-89711371.mp3 already exists.
File episode-160-the-creation-of-meaning-kierkegaard-silence-obedience-and-joy-89488860.mp3 already exists.
File episode-159-the-creation-of-meaning-nietzsche-amor-fati-88209087.mp3 already exists.
File episode-158-the-creation-of-meaning-nietzsche-the-ascetic-ideal-87305371.mp3 already exists.
Download Episode #157 ... The Creation of Meaning - Beauvoir ...
######################################################################## 100.0%
Download Episode #156 ... Emil Cioran part 2 - Failure and Suicide ...
######################################################################## 100.0%
Download Episode #155 ... Emil Cioran - Absurdity and Nothingness ...
######################################################################## 100.0%
Download Episode #154 ... Pragmatism and Truth ...
########################################

If the download fails at some point you can restart the script and it should pickup were it failed.

Exchange Update Offline Address Book

Tue, 27 Aug 2013 10:54:43 +0000

Since Exchange 2010 the graphical console doesn’t support the same functionality as the PowerShell Exchange console, it’s possible that there occur some exotic errors or a lack of functionality while working with the graphical console. I recommend to use only the Exchange PowerShell console for administrative work.

For example: I had to update the offline address book, I’ve deleted some distribution groups, updated the address list and the offline book, all with the graphical console. Result the address book still wasn’t up to date in the Outlook client after downloading the offline address book.

So I did the same thing with PowerShell:


Get-OfflineAddressbook | Update-OfflineAddressbook
Get-ClientAccessServer | Update-FileDistributionService

And hurray everything worked.

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Download podcast episodes from Stitcher for offline usage

Exchange Update Offline Address Book