Time for a geeky blog entry to compensate for all the “these-are-all-the-everyday-activities-I-have-done-lately” entries I have posted recently…
Since the network speed is very limited on the laptop I have installed in the washing room, I wanted to download the (video) newscasts automatically in order to have them served without buffering issues. Why one would like to watch news in the washing room is another topic but the washing room is not only for washing.
This is not a trivial problem to solve from scratch when one wants to download the newscasts from svtplay after their recent re-designing, but by combining two scripts it was fairly easy. I use svtplaydown for the actual download and parts from the ruby script svtplay-episode-downloader in order to automatically find the latest episodes of for example Aktuellt.