The program downloads RSS enclosures, for example podcasts, from RSS feeds.

RSS feeds are assigned channel identifiers in the configuration file .castgetrc. Channels to be processed by castget are indicated by supplying the channel identifiers as arguments. If no channel identifiers are provided, all available channels are processed.

If run without any options, castget will perform the default action on all channels to be processed. The default action is to download any enclosure not already downloaded. Other actions may be performed by supplying one or more options as arguments.

-c, --catchup

catch up with channels and exit

-l, --list

list available enclosures that have not yet been downloaded, and exit

-n, --new-only

operate on new channels only, i.e. on channels that have never been downloaded from or been caught up with before. Note that if a channel is added to the configuration and subsequently removed, its download history is preserved so that the channel will not be considered as `new' if re-added to the configuration at a later time.

-1, --first-only

operate on the most recent enclosure in each channel only.

-r, --resume

resume aborted downloads

-q, --quiet

do not print anything except error messages

-v, --verbose

print detailed progress information

-h, --help

display help and exit

-V, --version

output version information and exit

castget

download all enclosures not already downloaded

castget -v foobar

download all enclosures not already downloaded from channel foobar and be verbose

castget -l

list all enclosures not already downloaded

castget -c foobar

catch up with channel foobar