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)