Accessing podcast enclosure via macro

[Honza M.]

Hi,

is there a way to access the pocast enclosure link (the link to the actual audio file) via a macro in newsbeuter? Sometimes I'd like to pass the audio file URL to other programs than podbeuter and it'd be a lot easier, if I could do it using a macro.

Thanks for any answers. 

[Alexander Batischev]

Hi there!

As far as I know: no, you can't do it at the moment.

But the upside is, the ~/.newsbeuter/queue file is plain text and
contains one URL per line, so you can write a script that'll pull the
last enqueued URL out and pass it to whatever program you need (possibly
erasing the URL after that).

If anyone's interested in working on this, I will accept a patch that
adds enclosure's URL to the end of the URLs list, so that you can use
the following trick:

macro i set browser "your_program %u" ; open-in-browser ; set browser "your real browser"

This will let you pass the URL to your program by opening the URL dialog
(`u`), selecting the last URL (`End` should work) and invoking the macro
(`,i` in this case).

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[Honza M.]

Another solution would be to allow macros in podbeuter as well, then we could use those to access the downloaded files. But I'm not a coder, I wouldn't know where to start making that happen.

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