allcasts
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A Python package for downloading all available episodes from a podcast RSS feed. Useful for making private archives of your favourite podcasts.
Installation
pip install allcasts
Usage
Command line utility
From your terminal run allcasts which will kindly ask you for the an RSS feed's URL and download all available episodes for that podcast.
$ allcasts
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========= Welcome to the AllCasts App! ========
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Please enter the URL of the podcast feed you want to download: https://atp.fm/rss
Please enter the directory you want to download the podcast to [leave blank for current dir]:
Downloading all podcasts from https://atp.fm/rss to /Users/lewis/Documents/Python-Projects/allcasts
Downloading https://traffic.libsyn.com/atpfm/atp464.mp3
[............................................................................................]
🎧 Downloaded 464: Monks at Drafting Tables
Downloading https://traffic.libsyn.com/atpfm/atp463.mp3
[............................................................................................]
🎧 Downloaded 463: No Indication of Progress
Downloading https://traffic.libsyn.com/atpfm/atp462.mp3
[............................................................................................]
🎧 Downloaded 462: Xcode X
Downloading https://traffic.libsyn.com/atpfm/atp461.mp3
[........... ]
As a Python module
allcasts is a Python module that can be imported and used in your own Python code too!
from allcasts import AllCasts
AllCasts.download_all('https://atp.fm/rss', '/Users/lewis/Documents/Python-Projects/allcasts')
Limitations
- Private Patreon RSS feeds are not currently supported due to their strange DRM measures.
Todo
- Add support for downloading multiple podcasts at once.
- Add support for command line arguments.
- Add itunes API support to search for podcasts and select the correct feed.
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