add notification script to detect new Zander episodes (run via cron). can later easily be extended to automatic download of new episodes

zanderdetect.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+from defusedxml.ElementTree import fromstring
+import urllib.request
+
+url = "https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/zeitzeichen/zeitzeichen-podcast-100.podcast"
+
+def findZander(today):
+    for n, item in enumerate(today):
+        if item.tag.find("title") >= 0:
+            title = today[n].text
+        if item.tag.find("author") >= 0:
+            author = today[n].text
+        if item.tag.find("enclosure") >= 0:
+            podcasturl = today[n].attrib["url"]
+
+    if author.find("Zander") > 0:
+        print(f"ZanderAlert: {title}\nDownload-URL: {podcasturl}")
+
+with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response:
+    feed = fromstring(response.read())[0]
+
+for i in feed:
+    if i.tag == "item":
+        findZander(i)
+        break