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BBC Podcasts as OPML

29 February, 2008

The BBC make all of their podcast programme information available as an XML file.

Literally five minutes of XSLT gives me this:
http://philwilson.org/code/bbc-podcasts.xslt

$ xsltproc bbc-podcasts.xslt <a href="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/ppg.xml">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/ppg.xml</a> > bbc-podcasts.opml

outputs to: http://philwilson.org/code/bbc-podcasts.opml

which you can then render to something like this: http://tinyurl.com/2edfvs

Obvious improvements are grouping by radio station etc. but this will be very handy as-is for my N95 🙂

See other posts tagged with general mp3 syndication and all posts made in February 2008.

Comments

octavius
14 March, 2008 at 00:38

You star Phil. I was just in need of a BBC directory for the Nokia Podcast app. I did not like the idea of manually adding them in. Cheers

rob
11 April, 2008 at 08:42

Phil, you’re a legend!