This little Rust binary crate downloads episodes of The Crate and Crowbar podcast from the download links provided on their website.
It uses reqwest::blocking to make blocking requests and std::threads to spawn threads so that a multicore system can possibly run some of the downloads in parallel.
I go into more detail in the repository about how the URLs are formatted in various ways to account for the different naming conventions and two different web servers hosting the episodes.
Downloading old podcast episodes with Rust
Nov 16, 2025
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