NPR Hourly News Update

hourly-news.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Checks to see if there is a new hourly news update, plays it if there is.
# Stores the last played newscast URL in last_newscast_url.txt
# Can be invoked with cron or: watch -n 30 ./hourly-news.sh

latest_newscast_url=$(curl -s https://feeds.npr.org/500005/podcast.xml | grep enclosure | cut -d \" -f2)
last_newscast_url=$(cat last_newscast_url.txt)

if [ "$latest_newscast_url" = "$last_newscast_url" ]; then
    echo "No news."
else
    echo "News!"
    echo "$latest_newscast_url" > last_newscast_url.txt
    wget $latest_newscast_url -O newscast.mp3
    afplay newscast.mp3
fi