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title: "Internet TV: Where's the Feed?"
date: 2005-10-13T10:04:36-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2005/10/13/internet-tv-wheres-the-feed/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [asides]
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# Internet TV: Where's the Feed?

Man, does [This Spartan Life][tsl] ever need--

  1. An RSS feed with video enclosures.
  2. A web site that's not all-Flash.

Because without #1, I could at least scrape #2 to build #1, so as to dump new episodes into my viewing queue automatically.  Manual discovery and download of online video are *so* last century—especially with the advent of the video-playing iPod.

P.S.: I'd like video enclosure feeds for [Pure Pwnage][pp], [DigitalLifeTV][dlt], and [The Scene][ts] as well.  I may get motivated to scrape feeds for these, if I keep up with each of these.

[ts]: http://www.welcometothescene.com/
[pp]: http://www.purepwnage.com/episodes.html
[dlt]: http://digitallifetv.com/blogs/digitallifetv/default.aspx
[tsl]: http://www.thisspartanlife.com/

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            <div class="content"><p>Mmmm, Pure Pwnage good.</p>

<p>This Spartan Life -- getting kinda tired of the Halo machinima.</p></div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221085730" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-10-13T21:01:13">2005-10-13T21:01:13</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>I think I'm still kind of fresh on the Halo stuff, because I never really bothered watching much Red vs Blue.  Also, it was before my Xbox got modded, since I watch all this stuff on the living room TV.  I should go back and check out RvB, come to think of it</p></div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221085732" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-10-17T08:52:04">2005-10-17T08:52:04</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>I've built a screen-scraper of sorts for This Spartan Life. It's more than a little hackish right now, though it does work; it's designed to be called from cron. A bit of adaptation should suffice to make it spit out XML that can be piped into your newsreader; I'll get to that after I've fixed some of the more egregious oversights, like adding HTTP 304 recognition.</p>

<p>I've e-mailed you a copy of version 0.2, in case your interest is piqued.</p></div>
            
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