NAME

       git-annex-importfeed - import files from podcast feeds

SYNOPSIS

       git annex importfeed [url ...]

DESCRIPTION

       Imports  the  contents of podcasts and other feeds. Only downloads files whose content has
       not already been added to the repository before,  so  you  can  delete,  rename,  etc  the
       resulting files and repeated runs won't duplicate them.

       When  youtube-dl  is installed, it can be used to download links in the feed.  This allows
       importing e.g., YouTube playlists.  (However, this is disabled by default as it can  be  a
       security  risk.   See  the  documentation  of  annex.security.allowed-ip-addresses in git-
       annex(1) for details.)

       To make the import process add metadata to the imported files from the  feed,  git  config
       annex.genmetadata true

       By  default,  the  downloaded files are put in a directory with the title of the feed, and
       files are named based on the title of the item in the feed. This can be changed using  the
       --template option.

       Existing files are not overwritten by this command. If "some feed/foo.mp3" already exists,
       it will instead write to "some feed/2_foo.mp3" (or 3,  4,  etc).  Sometimes  a  feed  will
       change an item's url, resulting in the new url being downloaded to such a filename.

OPTIONS

       --force

              Force downloading items it's seen before.

       --relaxed, --fast, --raw
              These options behave the same as when using git-annex-addurl(1).

       --fast Avoid  immediately  downloading urls. The url is still checked (via HEAD) to verify
              that it exists, and to get its size if possible.

       --relaxed
              Don't immediately download urls, and avoid storing the size of the  url's  content.
              This makes git-annex accept whatever content is there at a future point.

       --raw  Prevent  special  handling  of  urls  by  youtube-dl, bittorrent, and other special
              remotes. This will for example, make importfeed download a .torrent  file  and  not
              the contents it points to.

       --template
              Controls where the files are stored.

              The default template is '${feedtitle}/${itemtitle}${extension}'

              The  available  variables  in the template include these that are information about
              the feed: feedtitle, feedauthor

              And these that are information about  individual  items  in  the  feed:  itemtitle,
              itemauthor, itemsummary, itemdescription, itemrights, itemid.

              Also,  title is itemtitle but falls back to feedtitle if the item has no title, and
              author is itemauthor but falls back to feedauthor.

              (All of the above are also added as metadata when annex.genmetadata is set.)

              The extension variable is the extension of the file in the feed, or sometimes  ".m"
              if no extension can be determined.

              The template also has some variables for when an item was published.

              itempubyear   (YYYY),   itempubmonth   (MM),  itempubday  (DD),  itempubhour  (HH),
              itempubminute (MM), itempubsecond (SS), itempubdate (YYYY-MM-DD or  if  the  feed's
              date cannot be parsed, the raw value from the feed).

              (These use the UTC time zone, not the local time zone.)

       --no-check-gitignore
              By  default, gitignores are honored and it will refuse to download an url to a file
              that would be ignored. This makes such files be added despite any ignores.

SEE ALSO

       git-annex(1)

       git-annex-addurl(1)

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>

                                                                          git-annex-importfeed(1)