poddl

poddl

poddl downloads podcasts from RSS feeds, both as a CLI tool and a Python library.

poddl attempts to achieve filesystem compatibility by ASCII-fying podcast titles using a combination of unidecode and character-stripping, so the titles you see may not be exactly the same as those given in the RSS feed.

Installation

Install via pip:

pip install poddl

CLI

poddl makes itself available as a CLI utility. For options, see poddl --help:

usage: poddl [-h] --url URL [--summary] [--destination DESTINATION]
             [--limit LIMIT]

A basic RSS podcast downloading script

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --url URL             The RSS feed URL
  --summary             Show a summary of available episodes
  --destination DESTINATION
                        Directory to save podcast files to
  --limit LIMIT         Limit the number of items retrieved

By default, podcasts are downloaded to ~/Downloads/poddl.

Library

To use as a library, include poddl.get:

from poddl import get

get('https://example.com/rss')

By default episodes are downloaded to ~/Downloads/poddl. To change this, set the destination:

from poddl import get

get('https://example.com/rss', destination='~/Documents/podcasts')

You can get a listing of the available podcasts without downloading them using summary:

from poddl import get

summary = get('https://example.com/rss', summary=True)

Here summary will be a list of podcast titles.

You can limit the number retrieved with limit:

from poddl import get

get('https://example.com/rss', summary=True, limit=20)