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| Summary | A simple tool to generate Podcast-like RSS feeds from youtube (or other youtube-dl supported services) channels, using youtube-dl/yt-dlp |
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| requires_python | >=3.7 |
| license | MIT |
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youtube-dl
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[](https://pypi.org/project/ydl-podcast/)
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# ydl-podcast
A simple tool to generate Podcast-like RSS feeds from youtube (or other
youtube-dl supported services) channels, using
[`youtube-dl`](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl).
## Setup
Install package with requirements:
### Youtube-dl:
`pip install ydl-podcast[youtube-dl]`
### yt-dlp:
`pip install ydl-podcast[yt-dlp]`
## Configuration
Edit the config.yaml file to list your podcast sources and configure them,
as well as edit general configuration.
[Example config file](config.sample.yaml)
The available settings are the following.
### General settings
- `output_dir`: local directory where the downloaded media will be stored, and
the podcast xml files generated.
- `url_root`: root url for the static files (used in the generation of the XML
to point to the media files.
- `subscriptions`: a list of feeds to subscribe to.
- `youtube-dl-module`: Alternative youtube-dl python module. By default, this
uses [youtube-dl](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl), but can leverage forks
such as [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp).
### Feed settings
#### Mandatory
- `name NAME`: Name of the podcast source. Used as the podcast title, and media
directory name.
- `url URL`: source url for the youtube (or other) channel.
#### Optional
- `audio_only True/False`: if `True`, audio will be extracted from downloaded
videos to create an audio podcast.
- `retention_days N`: only download elements newer than `N` days, and
automatically delete elements older.
- `download_last N`: only download the latest `N` videos.
- `initialize True/False`: if `True`, then downloads everything on the first
run, no matter the `download_last` or `retention_days` specified.
- `output_dir`: local directory where the downloaded media will be stored, and
the podcast xml files generated.
- `url_root`: root url for the static files (used in the generation of the XML
to point to the media files.
- `format`: file format to force youtube-dl to use (eg mp4, webm, mp3 for audio
only…)
- `best`: force best quality (only useful when specifying a format).
- `ydl_options`: list of raw youtube-dl options to use. For experienced users,
since this will likely yield issues if not understood.
- `nfo_files`: generates nfo files for subscriptions and downloaded episodes (simulates a "tvshow" nfo for the subscription and "tvshow episode" for each video). This helps plex, kodi, jellyfin import correct metadata. Does NOT support `audio_only` feeds at this point.
- `skip_download`: Don't perform download, just generate the Atom feed from the existing files. Mandatory `url` parameter can be skipped if `skip_download` is set to `true`
- `download_as_playlist`: Pass the url to the downloader directly, without processing the metadata of each item in the playlist. This is helpful with generic urls, and a few specific extractors.
## Usage
Using cron or your favorite scheduler, run:
`ydl-podcast [-c configfile.yaml]`
You can then use your favorite web server to serve the files (a good idea is to
exclude the `*.json` and `*.part` files from being served as the first might
leak information, and the second is unnecessary.
eg with nginx:
```
root /var/www/static/podcasts/;
location ~ (\.json$|\.part$) {
return 403;
}
```
### Command line arguments
```bash
usage: ydl-podcast [-h] [-v] [-c CONFIG] [-j JSON_CONFIG] [-f FILTER] [-e EXCLUDE]
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --version Show version and exit
-c CONFIG, --config CONFIG
Configuration file
-j JSON_CONFIG, --json-config JSON_CONFIG
Configuration string in JSON format
-f FILTER, --filter FILTER
Filter subscriptions
-e EXCLUDE, --exclude EXCLUDE
Exclude subscriptions
```
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