Mass downloading...

[andtheflesh]

Is there anyway to download a bunch of Revision3 shows at once? I recently bought a rather large external hard drive and have been setting up a media center for my living room. I'd like to get all the episodes for a few shows, most notably TRS and DiggNation.

Is there any easy way to do this? A torrent collection would be phenomenal but I suspect I might be able to do something similar using the RSS feeds, I'm just not too familiar with how that might work.

Additionally, I have a friend that's currently in the PeaceCorps over in Guinea, Africa and he misses his Diggnation and TRS like crazy so I'll be shipping him out a mess of episodes on a large usb drive soon as well. I'd hate to have to download each episode individually from the episode pages.

[chuckles]

Is there anyway to download a bunch of Revision3 shows at once? I recently bought a rather large external hard drive and have been setting up a media center for my living room. I'd like to get all the episodes for a few shows, most notably TRS and DiggNation.

Is there any easy way to do this? A torrent collection would be phenomenal but I suspect I might be able to do something similar using the RSS feeds, I'm just not too familiar with how that might work.

Additionally, I have a friend that's currently in the PeaceCorps over in Guinea, Africa and he misses his Diggnation and TRS like crazy so I'll be shipping him out a mess of episodes on a large usb drive soon as well. I'd hate to have to download each episode individually from the episode pages.

The RSS feeds would be your best bet, but they only go back 25 episodes.

-chuckles-

[klitzy]

I had been looking for something along these lines as well to download all of the episodes and keep them on an external hard drive. Oh well. If you set up a system to quickly just tab over and hit download/download linked file then it really doesn't take that long. Yes it's time consuming but we all know we have all wasted more time posting worthless responses on forums.

[dantex64]

I had been looking for something along these lines as well to download all of the episodes and keep them on an external hard drive. Oh well. If you set up a system to quickly just tab over and hit download/download linked file then it really doesn't take that long. Yes it's time consuming but we all know we have all wasted more time posting worthless responses on forums.

:P
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Maybe if rev3 did a page with all the DL links for a particular show and format/quality;
so you could choose Systm, then choose(what is it) xvid small then it would have all of the direct DL links; this would be really helpful. And lazy people like me could use DownthemAll

/Dante

[aussie]

I am also looking for something like this. Just a page of direct links to the files would be far better. I have been in contact with my ISP here in Australia to mirror some more Rev3 shows, but have been informed to send them the links to the files. Currently this is a pain as I need to go to each show, copy the link, then close the page before the show starts then do the same with the next one. A plain FTP site with only the shows would be sweet too.

[mavrevmatt]

Tried iMacros for Firefox? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3863
You can probably use it to automate that.
I had been looking for something along these lines as well to download all of the episodes and keep them on an external hard drive. Oh well. If you set up a system to quickly just tab over and hit download/download linked file then it really doesn't take that long. Yes it's time consuming but we all know we have all wasted more time posting worthless responses on forums.

[aussie]

Can anyone provide info on where to download these shows?
I went to the "Feed" pages but for example, Systm only has the last 10 or so episodes.

[riz]

Can anyone provide info on where to download these shows?
I went to the "Feed" pages but for example, Systm only has the last 10 or so episodes.

A detail that we don't publicize much is that you can increase the limit (which defaults to 25, not 10) on the number of episodes returned by a feed by adding (for example) ?limit=100 to the end of the URL.

Like so:

http://revision3.com/systm/feed/quicktime-large?limit=50

[mathwhiz]

How does the ?limit=xx work with the Tekzilla feed where we already have ?subshow=false, I tried ?limit=xx&subshow=false but it didn't return anything.

Rich

[rylab]

How does the ?limit=xx work with the Tekzilla feed where we already have ?subshow=false, I tried ?limit=xx&subshow=false but it didn't return anything.

Rich

That's the correct syntax... I just tried this and it works exactly as expected:

http://revision3.com/tekzilla/feed/quicktime-large?limit=75&subshow=false

[mathwhiz]

Interesting. I was checking these with Firefox 3.5 and the built-in RSS feed viewer and they don't show any items on the page, but viewing the source in Firefox shows the whole feed. Must be a bug in Firefox then. Thanks for checking for me.

[rylab]

Yeah, the Firefox RSS renderer has some weird glitches when dealing with long/large feeds. So if you turn up the limit much higher than our default, there's a good chance Firefox will barf instead of render it... but the actual source is always there, and correct.

FWIW, Safari doesn't seem to have any problems rendering feeds with lots of items inline -- it even auto-paginates the feed for you... pretty slick.

[aussie]

A detail that we don't publicize much is that you can increase the limit (which defaults to 25, not 10) on the number of episodes returned by a feed by adding (for example) ?limit=100 to the end of the URL.

Like so:

http://revision3.com/systm/feed/quicktime-large?limit=50

OK this does work to some extent. I set the limit to 200, for example http://revision3.com/hak5/feed/WMV-Large?limit=200.
Is there a limit for how far this can go, such as ?limit=1000. I am using Firefox v3.0.11.

Thanks for at least giving us something to try. And an FTP site with all the episodes would still be sweet.

[rylab]

There is currently no limit imposed from our end, but Firefox stops rendering large RSS feeds in a rather unpredictable fashion. I would recommend getting a dedicated RSS reader (or using Safari if you're on a mac) when trying to view media feeds with > 100 items.