https://github.com/dinoosauro/podcast-downloader

An Android application that can download podcasts from a RSS feed
https://github.com/dinoosauro/podcast-downloader

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An Android application that can download podcasts from a RSS feed

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dinoosauro/podcast-downloader
• Owner: dinoosauro
• License: mit
• Created: 2024-08-11T06:51:16.000Z (10 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-30T12:39:41.000Z (10 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-03T11:17:42.849Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: android, android-downloader, downloader, podcast, podcast-downloader, podcasts, podcasts-downloader
• Language: Java
• Homepage:
• Size: 3.12 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# podcast-downloader

An Android application that can download podcasts from a RSS feed.

## How it works

Find the URL of a podcast's RSS feed. Now, add it in the "Downloader" textbox.

The application will fetch all the available podcasts, and you'll be able to

select the items to download. The application will download them and, if they

are a MP3 file, add metadata. You can find screenshots for this process below.

### Download screenshots:

![Image of the main UI](./readme_assets/downloader_ui.jpg)

After you click the "Start download" button, the podcasts items will be fetched.

You'll be able to choose which elements to download:

![Podcast episode picker UI](./readme_assets/selection_ui.jpg)

After you've selected all the files you want to download, click on the "Download

selected items" button (or the download icon at the top).

![Download episode UI](./readme_assets/download_ui.jpg)

You'll go back to the Downloader UI. Now, at the bottom you'll find the episodes

that are being downloaded. They'll disappear when the download ends.

## Downloading new episodes

![The dialog that permits to download the new episodes](./readme_assets/download_new_episodes.jpg)

Starting from version 1.1.0, PodcastDownloader keeps track of the RSS feed

downloaded, and it can download the new episodes. To do this, click on the

"Download the new episodes" button.

A dialog will appear. Here you can choose if the application should stop the

download of that RSS feed at the first file that has been already downloaded,

and how PodcastDownloader should look for duplicates. You have two options:

- Look if a file with the same name exists

- Look if the URL has already been downloaded

## Settings

![Settings UI](./readme_assets/settings_ui.jpg)

In the settings, you can customize:

### Concurrent downloads

- The number of concurrent downloads (how many downloads can happen at the same

  time)

- If you want to save the XML file in the PodcastDownloader directory

### Metadata

- If you want to add metadata to MP3 files

- If the description should be parsed from HTML

- If the application should keep the XML indentation for text blocks

- If the application should keep the new lines in the XML indentation (also if

  the XML indentation isn't kept)

#### Track number

![Track settings UI](./readme_assets/track_settings_ui.jpg)

Additional settings are available for track number customization. Here you can

choose if the suggested track number from the XML should be used, and what the

app should do if the podcast track number is unknown.

### Album Art

If possible, podcast-downloader autiomatically downloads the album art, and

it'll re-encode it to a JPEG. You can customize:

- The maximum width and the maximum height

- The JPEG quality

### Sources

PodcastDownloader will automatically save every RSS feed in the "Sources"

section. Here you can click on each feed to show its title, or click the "X" to

delete it. These sources are the ones used to download the new podcasts.

In this section, you can also delete or export the URL history.

## Disclaimer

This application is licensed under the MIT license. The user is responsable for

the usage of this tool.