Re: Script/Command to extract XYZ.ra URL from XYZ.ram files

Mike <Not@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Responding to Peter Kai Jensen...
Mike wrote:

I need to find/create a script that can, when fed a typical URL to a
something.ram file, the sort you find all over the BBC's "Listen
again" pages, will extract the URL within it, the real something.ra
file address, and output that so I can then feed it to mplayer for
streaming or grabbing/converting to .wav format.

It is probably trivial for a knowledgeable scripter, but I think you're
likely to get better results if you posted an example of what link you

Ok, here's the process.

Example. On this page...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/memory/programmes/me_and_my_memory1.shtml

...we find this link to 'listen again'.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/memory/rams/meandmymemory1.ram

This text file contains this information...
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/memory/sharpen_and_meandmy_memory_20060726.ra?start=27:30&BBC-UID=24761ae793c29631bb5dd984e0e0ebbaf84c6aaf3030b164c4ef16cff2746cab&SSO2-UID=

...which provides this file address when we trim the splurge off.
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/memory/sharpen_and_meandmy_memory_20060726.ra

'Sounds like a job for sed:

s/^[^?]*/$url/ # grab everything at start of line short of "?"

or something. My sed is *very* rusty. You'd get better results
asking this question in comp.unix.shell.


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