Display iTunes Podcasts In Your RSS Reader NetNewsWire
Well, let me explain… I have several podcasts subsscribed in iTunes. I use Net News Wire as a local RSS feed reader. This morning I thought it would be nice to have new podcast episodes displayed in my feed reader as soon, as they are downloaded.
So I sat down and wrote my very first piece of AppleScript. And boy, does this “language” suck… It even lacks a simple string replacement function. Stunningly stupid… So I only got a half baked script, which at least displays me new podcast episodes in Net News Wire. Download it here
In Net News Wire go in the menu “File -> New Special Subscription -> Script…” and select the downloaded file (you can put it anywhere on your computer). The script should work with other feed readers as well, but of course only with local applications. You probably have to subscribe to “file://pathtodirectory/listPodcasts.scpt”, I don’t know. Feel free to tell me in the comments!
Ah, if you don’t trust me (why would you? 
), you can open the downloaded file in a simple text editor and investigate it to make sure I don’t mess with your computer 
September 3rd, 2008 at 16:09
Bitte nicht vergessen… AppleScript ist als Sprache für Nicht-Programmierer und Endanwender konzipiert worden. Dafür funktioniert es doch recht gut.
String-Manipulationen lassen sich dennoch auf verschiende Weise erreichen:
1. Über den “do shell script” Aufruf. Hiermit lassen sich (String-)Inhalte an die Commandline übergeben. Der Vorteil ist, dass man den gesamten UNIX-Unterbau von OSX ohne zusätzl. Installation nutzen kann.
2. Über eine Scripting Addition (OSAX), die die entsprechenden Funktionen bereitstellt.
Z.B. “Satimage osax 3.3.1″ (http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/downloads/downloads_companion_osaxen.html). Nachteil ist, dass man die Addition mit dem Script bündeln muss – Info hier: http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2007/Feb/msg00259.html
3. Über ein AppleScipt Library Object wie “SmartString” (http://www.seanet.com/~jonpugh/)
Grüße Olli
September 6th, 2008 at 15:31
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September 11th, 2008 at 16:10
nice! i see in NNW after setting up the script, select Show Info > Enclosures & Podcasts that you can enable enclosures. Would be cool to have the audio file enclosure added as well in the feed you generate from iTunes. I havent experimented with this yet to see what NNW can do with audio enclosures… so maybe something already works, but i couldnt see it by default.