Oscar

A CLI application to download Sesame Street videos from PBS. Ideally run in cron or another scheduler.

Example

@hourly oscar -so /mnt/nas/videos/

Options

-d --dry-run: run without actually downloading any files.

-s --silent: Do not log anything.

-o --output: Where to save movies, defaults to /tmp/.

Misc

Please note that each episode of Sesame Street at 720p quality is ~500MB. If you are on a metered or a slow connection this may be a problem.

Every episode that is downloaded gets logged by appending its ID to a text file ~/.oscar_history. This file is checked every time oscar runs to validate if an episode is new or not.

Currently a new episode cycles in on Friday at 1am EST.