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RFU Podcast feed – one that can be used!

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I have been waiting quite a bit for the RFU to make their podcasts available via iTunes or some other similar service. I used to listen to them but for one reason or another the feed changed to the extent that no submission was done to iTunes and the RSS of the RFU’s website is basically dead.

So, inspired by a post by Rolando Garza, I decided to hack an RSS that can actually be used to download the RFU podcast and get some information about Rugby. So I used a combination of Feedity which used HTML scraping to generate an RSS of almost any page. With the help op Yahoo Pipes I managed to use the magic of regular expressions to add appropriate dates and enclosures to the feed and the result is the RFU Podcast Feed.

So, as long as the RFU does not change the way they deal with their website and the posting of their mp3 content, then you can enjoy a bit of Rugby right in your mp3 devices.