Simplify timing logic

get_podcasts.py

@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ feedurls = ['http://linuxactionnews.com/rss', \
             'http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:146429914/sounds.rss', \
             'http://billburr.libsyn.com/rss', \
             'http://feeds.99percentinvisible.org/99percentinvisible', \
-            'http://rss.art19.com/tim-ferriss-show']
+            'http://rss.art19.com/tim-ferriss-show', \
+            'http://feed.thisamericanlife.org/talpodcast']
 
 # number of old episodes to keep
 old_episodes_keep = 3
@@ -44,17 +45,6 @@ opener=urllib.request.build_opener()
 opener.addheaders=[('User-Agent','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1941.0 Safari/537.36')]
 urllib.request.install_opener(opener)
 
-# create new timestamp
-timestamp_file = os.path.join(download_root_dir, '.last_sync')
-new_ts = int(time.time())
-
-# get old timestamp
-if os.path.exists(timestamp_file):
-  with open(timestamp_file) as f:
-    old_ts = int(f.readline())
-else:
-  old_ts = 0
-
 #################################
 ######### GET EPISODES ##########
 #################################
@@ -81,21 +71,15 @@ for feed in feedurls:
 
   # parse episodes
   for episode in parsed['episodes']:
-    # get release time
-    release_time = int(episode['published'])
   
-    # debug
-    if debug == 1:
-      print(old_ts)
-      print(release_time)
-    
-    if release_time > old_ts:
     # format release time to date format
+    release_time = int(episode['published'])
     episode_date = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(release_time)
     episode_date = episode_date.strftime("%y-%m-%d")
     
     # debug
     if debug == 1:
+      print(release_time)
       print(episode_date)
       
     # create filename based on episode date and/or episode title
@@ -109,6 +93,8 @@ for feed in feedurls:
     for enclosures in episode['enclosures']:
        # get download url
        url = enclosures['url']
+       if debug == 1:
+         print(url)
        if enclosures['mime_type'] == 'audio/mpeg':
          full_episode_path += '.mp3'
     # download file and save to episode title
@@ -129,10 +115,6 @@ for feed in feedurls:
   for file in old_files[:-old_episodes_keep]:
     os.unlink(file)
         
-# write new timestamp file
-with open(timestamp_file, 'w') as outf:
-  outf.write(str(new_ts))
-        
 #################################
 ######## MANAGE HANDHELD ########
 #################################