1git-annex-importfeed(1) General Commands Manual git-annex-importfeed(1)
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6 git-annex-importfeed - import files from podcast feeds
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9 git annex importfeed [url ...]
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12 Imports the contents of podcasts and other feeds. Only downloads files
13 whose content has not already been added to the repository before, so
14 you can delete, rename, etc the resulting files and repeated runs won't
15 duplicate them.
16 When youtube-dl is installed, it can be used to download links in the
18 feed. This allows importing e.g., YouTube playlists. (However, this
19 is disabled by default as it can be a security risk. See the documen‐
20 tation of annex.security.allowed-ip-addresses in git-annex(1) for
21 details.)
22 To make the import process add metadata to the imported files from the
24 feed, git config annex.genmetadata true
25 By default, the downloaded files are put in a directory with the title
27 of the feed, and files are named based on the title of the item in the
28 feed. This can be changed using the --template option.
29 Existing files are not overwritten by this command. If "some
31 feed/foo.mp3" already exists, it will instead write to "some
32 feed/2_foo.mp3" (or 3, 4, etc). Sometimes a feed will change an item's
33 url, resulting in the new url being downloaded to such a filename.
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36 --force
37 Force downloading items it's seen before.
39 --relaxed, --fast, --raw
41 These options behave the same as when using git-annex-addurl(1).
42 --fast Avoid immediately downloading urls. The url is still checked
44 (via HEAD) to verify that it exists, and to get its size if pos‐
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46 --relaxed
48 Don't immediately download urls, and avoid storing the size of
49 the url's content. This makes git-annex accept whatever content
50 is there at a future point.
51 --raw Prevent special handling of urls by youtube-dl, bittorrent, and
53 other special remotes. This will for example, make importfeed
54 download a .torrent file and not the contents it points to.
55 --template
57 Controls where the files are stored.
58 The default template is '${feedtitle}/${itemtitle}${extension}'
60 The available variables in the template include these that are
62 information about the feed: feedtitle, feedauthor
63 And these that are information about individual items in the
65 feed: itemtitle, itemauthor, itemsummary, itemdescription, item‐
66 rights, itemid.
67 Also, title is itemtitle but falls back to feedtitle if the item
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71 (All of the above are also added as metadata when annex.genmeta‐
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74 The extension variable is the extension of the file in the feed,
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77 The template also has some variables for when an item was pub‐
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80 itempubyear (YYYY), itempubmonth (MM), itempubday (DD), itempub‐
82 hour (HH), itempubminute (MM), itempubsecond (SS), itempubdate
83 (YYYY-MM-DD or if the feed's date cannot be parsed, the raw
84 value from the feed).
85 (These use the UTC time zone, not the local time zone.)
87 --no-check-gitignore
89 By default, gitignores are honored and it will refuse to down‐
90 load an url to a file that would be ignored. This makes such
91 files be added despite any ignores.
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95 git-annex-addurl(1)
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99 Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
100 git-annex-importfeed(1)