Geoffrey Leach writes:
No flames please. This is a technical question.I download podcasts with a script that runs after 11pm (Satelite internet). Is it possible to get the URL for the day's show by scraping the member's page or compute it?. Needless to say, their tech suport has no idea what I am trying to do.
It's very likely that your login ends up with the server sending your browser a cookie. Even if you can derive the URL yourself, without a cookie you're not going to get anything.
You'll need to put together a script which submits a login request, and in addition to stashing away any cookies it gets, parses the HTML document that comes in, and follows the HTML links (obediently returning all the cookies) until it gets to the URL you're looking for.
This should be doable, unless there's convoluted Javascript or Flash involved in navigating your way to the dowload URL, manually. Whether or not that's the case may not be necessarily obvious.
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