Comments on: iTunes Podcast URLs….

By: chris

chris — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:20:52 +0000

Well.... What you have to do is actually download the .py script, save it as a .py file, make it executable (chmod +x), and then issue the following command while your are in the directory that the script resides:

python itunes-url-decoder.py url_of_site

This assumes that you save the file with the name 'itunes-url-decoder.py'.... replace url_of_site with the actual url.

If that doesn't work then we'll have to search larger afield because I don't have the time/mindspace/ability at present to sort out python problems or other peoples computer setups etc etc. Sorry .... Anyone else have a solution to this dilemma?

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:38:51 +0000

G’day mate, I’m having trouble using that script. I’m running ubuntu and am quite new to it.

I’ve tried

$ python itunes-url-decoder.py http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/queensu.ca.1330418963

which gives me the error

itunes-url-decoder.py error: itmsOpen() not found in http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/queensu.ca.1330418963

and

~$ python itunes-url-decoder.py itms://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/queensu.ca.1330418963?ignore.mscache=1708757

which gives me the error

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “itunes-url-decoder.py”, line 65, in
xml_url = get_xml_url(http_get(arg))
File “itunes-url-decoder.py”, line 29, in http_get
usock = urllib2.urlopen(request)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py”, line 124, in urlopen
return _opener.open(url, data)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py”, line 381, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py”, line 404, in _open
‘unknown_open’, req)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py”, line 360, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py”, line 1140, in unknown_open
raise URLError(’unknown url type: %s’ % type)
urllib2.URLError:

Do you know what I’m doing wrong?

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:18:10 +0000

Great workaround, though i’m not sure how to actually use it. if anyone could tell me, that would be awesome :D

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:59:35 +0000

Sorry to ask, but I am really new to Linux. How would you run this script? I suppose you run it from the Terminal, but what’s the command?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Josh

By: chris

chris — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:33:41 +0000

Hey Stefan… no worries!!! You are the first legitimate comment on my web site… Yipeee That makes me feel so good because I always thought that something on this web site would be useful to someone but then nobody left a comment…. Oh well… I must just be a geek after all….

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:30:22 +0000

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!