Recently Comedy Central yanked The Daily Show and The Colbert Report off of Hulu [update: in early 2011, the show returned to Hulu]. I started watched these shows on Hulu because it provided RSS feeds for the full episodes, while Comedy Central has only ever had segment/clip feeds. Luckily, the shows’ sites have feed-like AJAH pages that are easily massaged into a true RSS feeds, so here are substitute feeds. Share and enjoy:
The Daily Show Full Episodes RSS Feed
The Colbert Report Full Episode RSS Feed
The feeds update every hour, although the shows only appear the morning after their cable broadcast. The shell, XSL (and sed!) source can be viewed in the full-episode feed directory.
Awesome work, thank you. One concern, I looked at the build script (build.sh) and see that for the Colbert Report the URLs selected were 0,1,3 we miss page 2. for The Daily Show we use 0,1,2. I think that we should do 0,1,2 in both cases or 0,1,2,3 in both cases
Thank you so much for this feed now I won’t miss the shows since Hulu no longer can ensure I see them.
Thanks for the sharp eyes! I’ve fixed the script so both feeds show weeks 0,1,2.
Thanks a lot for posting these! They are just what I was looking for, as I found myself in the same predicament as you when these shows left Hulu.
Cheers!
This is great! I was just about to attempt the same thing. Thank you for saving me the trouble, and hosting the feeds, too. curl + xsltproc is a wonderful thing.
I have long appreciated your work on creating this feed. However I have noticed in the past few weeks that the Colbert feed has stopped working. Thanks again for sharing these feeds with everyone.
The Colbert site changed its setup, so the XSL had to be adjusted. Sorry for the delay, and thanks for your support!
Just want to let you know that even now this is useful for some of us, and I really appreciate it!