getpods.py is a very simple command line podcast client in Python, that I made for my personal use.
You need a directory for your podcasts, e.g. ~/Podcasts or directly
on your mounted media player (like I have). You should make a
configuration called ~/.getpods that points to this directory. There
should be a file getpods.sample.conf distributed together with this
script that you can copy to ~/.getpods and modify.
In the podcast_dir directory, create a file called urls which
contains one line for each podcast feed with the following format:
# comments preceeded by hash
url directory_name [?]
For example:
# These are my awesome podcast feeds
http://faif.us/feeds/cast-ogg/ faif
http://hackerpublicradio.org/hpr_ogg_rss.php hpr ?
The question mark is for feeds where the program should query about each new episode. Other feeds have new episodes automatically downloaded.
It's a simple Python script, that requires the feedparser and pycurl
modules. In Debian this should mean installing the packages
python-feedparse and python-pycurl.
Episodes that have been downloaded or otherwise marked as "seen" are registered in a file called "cache" in the podcast_dir.