{"id":745,"date":"2006-04-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/04\/21\/683\/"},"modified":"2006-04-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T22:00:00","slug":"683","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/04\/21\/683\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic feed enclosure download for backups?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8222;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsgator.com\/BroadcastingHome.aspx\" title=\"NewsGator - Broadcasting Home\">FeedStation<\/a> allows you to download enclosures that appear in your NewsGator Online or FeedDemon feeds. &#8220; That&#8217;s nice. Sounds like I can automate downloads for any kind of file&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thinking beyond podcasting: I&#8217;ve got a couple of applications on the web (like this weblog) for which I can do automated (local) backups (via a shell script run from a cron job), and currently I manually copy them over to my Windows laptop &#8211; from time to time, when I remember doing so.<\/p>\n<p>How about setting up an ultra-simple PHP script producing an Atom (or RSS) feed with enclosures pointing to the files in that backup directory?<\/p>\n<p>When I think about this, shouldn&#8217;t automatically getting the latest copy of my favourite software be as simple as subscribing to its &#8222;download&#8220;-feed (with enclosures)? (And a naive question, since I haven&#8217;t really thought about this &#8211; what&#8217;s the difference between &#8222;photocasting&#8220; and automatic enclosure downloads from image feeds into my picture directory?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8222;FeedStation allows you to download enclosures that appear in your NewsGator Online or FeedDemon feeds. &#8220; That&#8217;s nice. Sounds like I can automate downloads for any kind of file&#8230; Thinking beyond podcasting: I&#8217;ve got a couple of applications on the web (like this weblog) for which I can do automated (local) backups (via a shell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}