The Treehouse Show episodes to Plex

I love Plex and I love The Treehouse Show. So I have a Gold membership. I can not watch new episodes easily via Plex because I can use only as a channel where I can not set an episode as watched.

Here is a small shell script to download new videos in HD and place into a specified directory. This directory added as a media source in Plex Media Server. I have a little twist. I store my media files on an external 1TB drive, so I need to check if it is mounted or not.

Download this script: https://gist.github.com/Yitsushi/6643609

Change configuration:

FEED_URL="RSS Feed URI from http://teamtreehouse.com/library/the-treehouse-show"
DRIVE_MOUNT_POINT="/Volumes/Samsung"
TARGET_DIRECTORY="${DRIVE_MOUNT_POINT}/Plex/Series/Treehouse"

and remove (or comment out) the mount point check if you do not need.

Set as executable with chmod +x ~/.cron/treehouse.sh and dd it to your crontab: crontab -e

0 */5 * * *  ~/.cron/treehouse.sh

(OSX: crontab -e creates a temp file like /tmp/crontab.GeQ3gXpZ13. After save and quit from the editor, you need to add the file to your cron crontab <filename> like crontab /tmp/crontab.GeQ3gXpZ13)

Check your success with crontab -l.

Now the script will be executed every hour that divisible by 5.