$ show freshe/poddl
poddl is a cross-platform command-line tool for batch downloading podcast episodes from RSS feeds. It fetches the RSS XML via libcurl, parses it using regex to extract episode titles, URLs, and publication dates, then downloads media files to a specified output directory. The tool supports a variety of options including downloading individual episodes, ranges, newest-first ordering, filename formatting with episode numbers and dates, whitespace handling, and early termination on existing files. The codebase is a monolithic C++11 application split into several classes: Client (HTTP), Parser (RSS parsing), Helper (utilities), FileSystem (cross-platform file operations), and a standalone HtmlCoder for decoding HTML entities. The architecture is clean and modular, with clear separation of concerns, though the use of regex for XML parsing is a known fragility. The repository includes precompiled binaries for Windows and Linux, and the build requires only g++ and libcurl. It is a straightforward, well-structured utility with no external runtime dependencies beyond libcurl.
The LLM identified 2 files worth highlighting for reuse:
Provides a clean, cross-platform abstraction for common file system operations (directory existence, creation, deletion, file existence, move, directory emptiness check). Uses conditional compilation for Windows (Win32 API) and POSIX (stat, dirent, etc.). The interface is simple and could be extracted into a standalone utility for any C++ project needing portable file operations without relying on C++17 filesystem.
A self-contained class for decoding HTML named and numeric entities (both decimal and hexadecimal). It first extracts all entity references from the input, then replaces them using a comprehensive unordered_map of named entities (from the HTML spec) and numeric conversion via std::wstring_convert. The design is robust, handles edge cases, and is easily reusable in any project that needs to decode HTML entities without pulling in a full HTML parser.