In situations where I can't install get_iplayer, but have some basic scripting in terms of sed,grep, awk and wget .

Is there simple a way to obtain the podcast url directly. I apologise in advance if this has been answered before, I couldn't find it.

Iplayer lets you directly download some podcasts e.g. the Archers
http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector...2tsjfh.mp3

I'm currently just grepping part of the urls ending in .mp3, and downloading the programmes

wget http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector...2tf69b.mp3
wget http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector...2tzm3h.mp3

You will need to parse podcast feeds to extract download URLs. Or you can parse the HTML of pages where download links are listed, which presumably is what you do now. Or save yourself the trouble and use a proper podcast manager.

Thanks. as I said, I only have access to a shell and some tools. I would normally use get_iplayer or gpodder for my needs.