renko

renko is a simple enclosure-aware RSS aggregator/downloader

See Audio, Enclosures, renko, etc... for details. (Also see: iPodder.org)

You can download renko here

See the README file for renko

I tried to make renko simple. It's written in Perl, and should include all the modules you need to run it, so no additional installs should be needed. It works like this:

• Reads in subscription file, named renko.txt
• Checks to see if RSS files specified have been updated. (Uses LWP's mirror function to check LastMod dates, should be a nice aggregator)
• If an RSS file is updated, checks for enclosures and if not found in renko.log, will attempt to download it to the downloads folder. (Should not download a file more than once.)

Think of this as a "proof-of-concept" application, rather than a full-fledged solution. One of the goals is to demostrate the ideas and technology so others can build upon it.

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Oh, just a note... renko was officially released on 2004-08-27 and is probably one of the first "podcatching" clients. I was running an earlier version of the same code named itconv.pl since 2004-02 that was written specifically for ITConversations RSS feeds.