FM4 - Stream Downloader

Summary

This repository contains everything what you need to (automatically) download the .mp3 files of your favorite streams from the Austrian radio station FM4! (+ optional upload to your Dropbox)

Why?

The Austrian radio station FM4 has great "genre shows" (like "House of Pain") in the evening but unfortunately they are only available for seven days and only via web player or smartphone app. Sometimes I forget to listen to the latest show or I am at places where I have no access to internet and I urgently want to listen to my favorite radio show.

That's why I was looking into a way to download the mp3s of the shows to solve all my problems. There were already some people out there who developed programs for downloading the streams. I used the python script from Chris to retrieve the stream mp3 url from the FM4 API and added some lines to also enable a complete download if the show consists out of multiple mp3 files (here is my fm4.py version).

I added a bash script to automatically download the mp3s of a specific stream and upload it to my Dropbox. I set up a cron job on my Pi so I won't miss any show anymore 🎉

Instructions

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/vektorious/FM4_dl
cd FM4_dl/scripts

Retrieve MP3 URLs

Now you can already get the stream mp3 urls:

python fm4.py -s **insert show tag**

The tags can be found in script\fm4.py

For example:

python fm4.py -s "4HOP"

>>> ['http://loopstream01.apa.at/?channel=fm4&ua=flash&id=2018-08-29_2100_tl_54_4HOPWed1_63490.mp3', 'http://loopstream01.apa.at/?channel=fm4&ua=flash&id=2018-08-29_2200_tl_54_4HOPWed2_63492.mp3']

Install rclone (optional)

If you want to upload your files to a cloud service, use rclone. It supports Dropbox, Google Drive, Hetzner Storage Box, SFTP, SMB / CIFS or the local filesystem (and much many more, see https://rclone.org/)

Automatically download MP3s

Make the fm4_dl.sh script executable and adjust it to your needs:

cd scripts
sudo nano fm4_dl.sh

Insert your favorite show tags (variable SHOW_TAGS) and storage location (STORAGE) in the script. You can find out your shows tag by looking at the FM4 API or in the list in the fm4.py file

Then just run it!

bash fm4_dl.sh

Setting up a cron job on a Raspberry Pi

I let the script run as a cron job (weekly)

Open

sudo nano /etc/crontab -e

and insert:

25 21   * * 4   pi      /home/pi/scripts/FM4_dl/script/fm4_dl.sh

It is important that you let the script run as the same user as when you installed the Dropbox-Uploader because otherwise the uploader won't work!

That's it!

Thank you for visiting this repository! If you should find any bugs or have problems getting the script to run don't hesitate to contact me!