BBC Podcasts as OPML
29 February, 2008The 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 🙂
Comments
octavius
14 March, 2008 at 00:38
Phil
14 March, 2008 at 11:06
rob
11 April, 2008 at 08:42
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
I’ve not tried it out yet, but 15 minutes ago the BBC announced this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/opml/bbc_podcast_opml.xml
Phil, you’re a legend!