Comments on: How to download old This American Life episodes as MP3s

By: peter

peter — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:04:00 +0000

I couldn’t figure out DownThemAll.
but Flashget just ripped through episodes 3 to 9 in a blink and has a nifty URL wildcard propagation feature. My lifetime supply of TAL is on the horizon.

By: Dan Misener

Dan Misener — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:50:48 +0000

DownThemAll might be handy:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/

Or, of course, you could learn how to use wget or curl.

By: peter

peter — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:42:59 +0000

Is there anyway to batch download, that is to say, queue up the 456 unique URLs, each with it's own episode number and hit GO!

Hmmm, this looks promising:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ba…

I'll report on how it works.

By: Dan Misener

Dan Misener — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:35:17 +0000

I suggest learning how to use wget or curl. You’ll find these much less labour-intensive.

By: peter

peter — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:32:00 +0000

Clever, effective but darn labour intensive. I am now on episode 6.
Should be done the full 456 by… June?

By: megawatson

megawatson — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:55:18 +0000

oh boy! the very first episode even (when it was apparently called "Your Radio Playhouse") http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/jomamashouse/is...

By: nolo

nolo — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:47:51 +0000

yup, still works like a charm

By: Anita

Anita — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:30:41 +0000

neither itunes nor this Christopher Soghoian can be opened in China~then what can i do ?

and i suddenly realized how to do immediately after i finished the question!

thanks a lot

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 09:14:25 +0000

! I think the reason people keep thinking that the link does not work is because TAL occasionally airs re-runs which are part of an older numbering system.

I experienced this problem when i started listening to shows in advance! Yes that is right, you could be listening to next weeks show, now! This is the link that the flash stream player uses:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/all/play_mu…

This is the link for this week's episode, "Toxi" which you can currently only hear on the radio until Sunday at 7PM. It is actually a weak discovery being that usually you can only listen to a podcast 5 days in advance, but that is 5 days before anyone else! For example if I try using this link with next week's show, episode 419, it doesn't play; they must still be putting those final touches on it.

By: anon

anon — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 09:15:38 +0000

the above command got cut, for full command go here and scroll scroll to bottom page: http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2007/06/takedown-resi...