getpodcast 1.0.11

Summary

Simplify downloading podcasts with getpodcast

Features

• No database or caching backend. RSS items are instead compared to file name, file size and file timestamp

• Configuration and hooks are stored in a single python file, which is also executable

Installation

• Linux:

  $ python3 -m pip install --user getpodcast

• Windows:

  > py -3 -m pip install --user getpodcast

Usage

Create a new file mypodcasts.py:

#! /usr/bin/env python3

import getpodcast

opt = getpodcast.options(
    date_from='2021-01-01',
    root_dir='./podcast')

podcasts = {
    "SGU": "https://feed.theskepticsguide.org/feed/sgu"
}

getpodcast.getpodcast(podcasts, opt)

Download podcasts:

python3 mypodcasts.py --run

More help:

python3 mypodcasts.py --help

Setup cronjob to download once a day:

$ crontab -e

0 19 * * * /usr/bin/python3 /home/myuser/mypodcasts.py --quiet --onlynew --run