[wikibob]

I came here to say this. For years I thought of setting up something to automatically record and catalog the shows, and sadly it's too late now.

Has anyone found an online source for full archived shows?

Surely someone somewhere has them saved...

[cjensen]

PHC provides an archive[1]. I've used Audio Hijack [2] in the past to grab some of them, but that's a bit of a pain in the neck.

[1] http://prairiehome.org/shows/

[2] https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/

[jgoewert]

http://prairiehome.org/shows/ has the archive, and it is kind of sucky to use their player when out on a road trip here on the prairie. I'm not on the same edge of the prairie as St. Paul, but the cellular network isn't exactly top notch on the roads I travel here in SE Indiana. So, I yank down the episodes that I miss the live broadcasts.

The APM player is open source.

https://github.com/APMG/APMPlayer

But no need to deep dive the source.

When you open a player page's source, you see a line like this:

var playables = [{"identifier":"apm_audio:\/phc\/2016\/07\/02\/phc_20160702_128.mp3"}];

Looks like the end of a URL, but what is the beginning? It isn't prairiehome.publicradio.org where the page is served from.

Opening the apmplayer-all.min.js, there is:

function(){var d={"apm-audio":{flash_server_url:"rtmp://ondemand-rtmp.stream.publicradio.org/music",flash_file_prefix:"mp3:ondemand",http_file_prefix:"http://ondemand-http.stream.publicradio.org",buffer_time:3,t...},"apm-live-audio"

You get the beginning of the URL for the file. Put two and two together, you get:

http://ondemand-http.stream.publicradio.org/phc/2016/07/02/p...

Now that we have the format and know that PHC is a weekly show, you could directly grab or make a bulk download script.

http://ondemand-http.stream.publicradio.org/phc/YYYY/MM/DD/p...

Note: the archive only has Sept 2012 onward - http://prairiehome.org/shows/2012/09/ Before that, episodes are Realplayer RAM files on the old archive page.