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I have some friends who work at a non-profit institute which hosts a lot of guest speakers. They typically record those programs and then make them available on their website. The problem is that they're not a podcast and thus not listed in iTunes or Zune.
Since these folks are not very technical, what is the absolute simplest way for them to setup a podcast from this collection of links on their webpage? I've actually considered writing a Python script which will scrape their static HTML page and then spit out a podcast, but I'm hoping there's some app that can do this for them.
Thanks!
I don't know anything THAT easy, but maybe VLC + some kind of flash webplayer? You could bundle a VLC portable and the necessary script somehow into an installer. That way, they just click the EXE, they will have to select the directory, and will get an icon of "Start the stream" (which is a VLC with the neccessary parameters). Just my 2cents. – Apache – 2012-02-23T16:51:19.850
Well, I don't need these folks to listen to the files, I need the podcast to be listed in iTunes. – daveslab – 2012-02-23T17:00:32.197
I quick Python script might indeed be the easiest solution. If the guys took the trouble to add proper data to the MP3 ID3 tags then you can easily extract it with http://code.google.com/p/mutagen/ and it into the generated RSS feed. Also see the
– ccpizza – 2012-02-26T15:49:00.980mutagen-inspect
script that is installed with the module. The screen scraping part can be done using the http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup module.