tekpub-catcher

tekpub-catcher

A cross-platform command-line tool (written in go) that downloads your Tekpub videos and gives them sensible names.

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Motivation

Tekpub conveniently offers their customers to download the video tutorials through an RSS feed. Unfortunately did they choose to give their video files cryptic, meaningless and unsortable names like "142378404.mp4" which give you no clue to which series a video belongs or in which order they should be played:

And that's why I have created this little tool. It will download your Tekpub videos and give sensible names.

Features

tekpub-catcher can ...

1. download all items in your Tekpub subscription feed to a folder of your choice,
2. create a folder for each series (e.g. "Asynchronous C# 5.0 with Jon Skeet"),
3. give the individual video files a sensible name which can be sorted in ascending order (e.g "Asynchronous-C#-5.0-with-Jon-Skeet-001-A-Quick-Tour-of-Async-in-C#-5.mp4 ")
4. and skip items which have already been downloaded.

... and it will be able to do that on the OS of your choice because it is written in go.

Usage

To start the download of your Tekpub subscriptions you must specifiy two parameters:

1. -feedurl: The URL of your Tekpub Feed (which includes your subscription token)
2. -downloadpath: The directory path you want to download the files to

tekpub-catcher -downloadpath ~/Videos/Tekpub -feedurl http://delivery.tekpub.com/account/itunes.xml?token=<YourToken>

To stop the application after the current download has been finished simply write "stop" and hit <Enter>.