Description: This script will download enclosures from RSS feeds in NetNewsWire 2+ via a command line tool like wget or curl.
Requirement: Mac OS 10.3.x and NetNewsWire 2+

Newer versions of NetNewsWire 2+ has a nice built in function to download enclosures so this script is obsolete.

-- Script Start
(*
  Script for NetNewsWire 2+ to download enclosures via the command line 
  2004-10-06 by Fredrik Jonsson <mailto(colon)fredrik(at)combonet(dot)se>
  home page <http://xdeb.org/wiki/AppleScript>
*)
 
property dwlApp : "/sw/bin/wget" -- Download with wget installed via Fink
-- property dwlApp : "/usr/bin/curl -O" -- Download with curl installed by Apple
 
property dwlFolder : "~/Download/Podcasts/" -- Your download folder
-- property dwlFolder : "~/Desktop/" -- Your Desktop folder
 
try
  tell application "NetNewsWire"
    activate
    set theurl to enclosure URL of selectedHeadline
  end tell
 
  if theurl is not "" then
    tell application "Terminal"
      activate
      do script with command "cd " & dwlFolder & "; " & dwlApp & " " & theurl
      tell window frontmost
        set custom title to "Download enclosure"
        set position to {200, 200}
        set background color to "grey"
        set number of columns to 80
        set number of rows to 20
      end tell
    end tell
    delay 2
    tell application "NetNewsWire" to activate
  else
    beep
  end if
end try
-- Script Stop