podcastbackup

Back up podcasts with metadata from a feed URL. Progress indicator and resuming. Hacky, only really tested against FeedBurner/libsyn feeds.

When you run it, you get a directory named after the podcast with a list of mp3 files and metadata.json files.

tree /mnt/backups/podcast/
/mnt/backups/podcast/
├── bestshowever1.mp3.metadata.json
├── bestshowever1.mp3
├── bestshowever2.mp3.metadata.json
├── bestshowever2.mp3
├── bestshowever3.mp3.metadata.json
├── bestshowever3.mp3

The metadata.json files look like:

{
    "text": "This is probably the best show yet!",
    "href": "http://bestshowever.cachefly.net/bestshowever/bestshowever42.mp3",
    "title": "Best Show Ever 42: All The Answers"
}

In action

Usage

$ pip install podcastbackup

usage: podcastbackup [-h] -f FEED [-o OUTPUT] [-t TYPE] [-i FILTER]

Helps you back up your podcasts.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f FEED, --feed FEED  RSS feed url
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Location for downloaded items
  -t TYPE, --type TYPE  File extension to look for in feed items
  -i FILTER, --filter FILTER
                        Apply a regular expression filter on titles

Example:

$ podcastbackup -f http://feeds.feedburner.com/se-radio

Works with Python 2 and 3.

Ignores file

Drop a file named .ignores into the download directory of a particular podcast to skip downloading particular episodes.

Useful for skipping over broken / missing episodes. An example of the syntax is in the .ignores file with this repo.