[gpodder-devel] gPodder can't parse a podcast URL

  • From: michel.salim at gmail.com (Michel Salim)
  • Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:59:29 -0400

Hi Thomas!

2007/5/12, Thomas Perl <thp at perli.net>:
>
> To fix the problem, your easiest bet is to run a command like the
> following on a server that can be accessed through http:
>
> wget -q http://www.guardian.co.uk/podcast/0,,329441482,00.xml -O- |
> iconv -fiso-8859-1 -tutf-8 >feed.xml
>
> If you put that into a cron job, it will automatically grab the XML feed
> from guardian, fix the encoding (convert from Latin1 to UTF8) and save
> the result as feed.xml. You then point gPodder to the feed.xml (i.e.
> http://yourwebserver.com/~youruser/podcasts/feed.xml) and gPodder should
> happily process the file mentioned.
>
> Too complicated? Maybe a "read RSS from shell pipe" would be helpful
> where one can paste the command from above, don't know.


Yes, that would be a neat solution. Liferea already has that option, I
believe.

Regards,

-- 
Michel Salim
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