If you participate in Home Practice Programs with Shinzen Young (or other teachers), afterwards you will receive an email which usually looks something like that:
If you follow that link, you will be redirected to the corresponding recording on FreeConferenceCallHD.com. You can then start the recording from that webpage and listen to the program.
However, what if you want to download the recording, so you can save it for a future time and/or add to it your personal archive of Home Practice Programs?
I wrote a little Python Script with which you can do that.
import urllib
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from urllib.request import urlopen
import shutil
import re
from urllib.request import urlopen
link = input('Please paste link:')
html_page1 = urlopen(link)
soup_page1 = BeautifulSoup(html_page1, 'html.parser')
html_page2 = urlopen(soup_page1.find('meta', {'name':'twitter:player'})['content'])
soup_page2 = BeautifulSoup(html_page2, 'html.parser')
js_mess = soup_page2.find('script', {'type':'text/javascript'}).contents[0]#.lstrip('//<![CDATA[\n').rstrip('\n //]]>')
mp3_link = re.findall("https.*mp3", js_mess)[0]
file_name = input('Please name file (just the name; w/o .mp3):') + ".mp3"
with urllib.request.urlopen(mp3_link) as response, open(file_name, 'wb') as out_file:
shutil.copyfileobj(response, out_file)
# Move the file from your python project folder to your HomePracticeProgram folder
old_path = "/Users/exampleuser/examplefolder1/examplefolder2/" + file_name
new_path = "/Users/exampleuser/examplefolder1/HomePracticeProgram/" + file_name
shutil.move(old_path, new_path)
Enjoy!
Less Distracted 