While you can do it with perl, I swear by The Right Tool for The Right Job.

However, it's a bit unclear as to what you want to do. If you want to get a streamed file that's about one hour long, you can do this:

curl -f -r 0-58982400 -O "http://url"

This will get the first 58982400 bytes of the file, which is roughly one hour of sound at 128kbps (ie 128*60*60*1024/8 - adjust as you see fit). If you want the transfer to run for one hour (or 3600 seconds), do this:

curl -f -m 3600 -O "http://url"

cURL is most likely installed on your system. If not, it's freely available for most platforms at curl.haxx.se

The -f option makes sure that it doesn't write a file if there's an error (who wants empty files anyway?), and the -O option tells it to save the file with the same name as on the server. Alternately, you can use -o "filename.mp3" for a specific filename. In case the server wants a referer, use -e "http://server/". There are many more switches, so have a gander at the manpage... Good luck! And have a great yule! =)

Edit: Fixed idiotic error. Bits != bytes.


In reply to Re: perl script to capture streaming audio by carthag
in thread perl script to capture streaming audio by Anonymous Monk

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