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[SCRIPT] Save Arte plus 7 video stream local

nospam@example.com (Mark Baumann) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:07:38 +0100

This script saves the video streams from the Arte +7 liberty local.
You only need to run the script with the main url of your target video stream, as example:

Syntax: ./arte_plus7_downloader.sh "url"
Example: ./arte_plus7_downloader.sh "http://plus7.arte.tv/de/1697660,CmC=3024668,scheduleId=3004936.html/"

Simply to use, no need to explain it completely...

arte_plus7_downloader.sh:

#!/bin/sh

# check for syntax
if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
echo "Syntax: ${0} \"url\""
echo "Example: ${0} \"http://plus7.arte.tv/de/1697660,CmC=3024668,scheduleId=3004936.html/\""
exit 1
fi

# download from:
URL="${1}"

# save location
LOCATION="/Download/Arte"

# html dump
HTMLTMP="/tmp/arte_tmp"

# date of today
DATE=`date +%y%m%d`

# check if html dump file exist
if [ ! -e ${HTMLTMP} ] ; then
# create file
touch ${HTMLTMP}
else
# if file exist deleted contents
echo "" > ${HTMLTMP}
fi

# get main page with video info
curl -m 5 --connect-timeout 5 -# ${URL} > ${HTMLTMP}

# parse title out of the html dump
TITLE=`cat ${HTMLTMP} | grep -e 'meta name=\"Title\"' | sed 's/ .*\=//g;s/.-.ARTE+7.*>//g;s/\"//g;s/;//g;s/ /_/g'`

# parse for wmv/mms container file
WMV=`cat ${HTMLTMP} | grep -e 'availableFormats.*PG_HQ_DE.wmv' | sed 's/availableFormats.*\=//g;s/\"//g;s/;//g;s/ //g'`

# get container file
curl -m 5 --connect-timeout 5 -# ${WMV} > ${HTMLTMP}

# get mms stream address
WMV=`cat ${HTMLTMP} | grep -e 'PG_HQ_DE.wmv' | sed 's///g;s/ //g'`

echo "${TITLE} - ${WMV}"

# get the dump with mplayer
mplayer -dumpstream "${WMV}" -dumpfile "${LOCATION}/${TITLE}-${DATE}.wmv"

# error handling
if [ $? = "1" ] ; then
echo "Error! Retrying download"
"${0}" "${URL}"
fi

echo ""

What is missing/ToDO:
+ a better error handling
+ self fetching RSS Feed script to automate download process - something like bashpodder
+ further description and options

[advice] Homepage Added Bytes http://www.addedbytes.com/

nospam@example.com (Mark Baumann) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:48:04 +0200

Homepage Added Bytes

I just can recommend this page. It's a nice blog with articles about security and programming. But the main reason for advice is the assortment of cheat sheets for programming. For example PHP, ASP, Subversion, Regular Expressions and so on...

Really useful and a nice to have
You can download them as PDF or as image file (png).

The Cheat Sheet are released under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike).

[Order] Intel Online Collateral Ordering -- INTEL IA-32 ARCHITECTURE SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS BOOK

nospam@example.com (Mark Baumann) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:59:17 +0200

Eight days ago i ordered some manuals from Intel. It was for free...
http://www.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/

To order you have to write a mail, fax or make a phone call.

Here are the SKUs and the titles:

248966 Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual 1
253665 Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 1: Basic Architecture 1
253666 Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 2A: Instruction Set Reference, A-M 1
253667 Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 2B: Instruction Set Reference, N-Z 1
253668 Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 3A: System Programming Guide, Part 1 1
253669 Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 3B: System Programming Guide, Part 2

I ordered it at 17. September. But it just needed a little bit more then a week to be shipped from USA to Austria!
Great! On the same day of arrival I also get the third confirmation over mail, that it is on the way, but the packages was already here

Your message

To: CUSTOMER INTEL SUPPORT
Cc:
Subject: Hard Copy Literature
Sent: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:15:05 -0400

was read on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:42:46 -0400

Total Number of Packages: 1
Total Weight: 14.0 LBS (6,38 Kilo)