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https://github.com/psidex/playlist2podcast
A self-hosted application that lets you create podcast RSS feeds from YouTube playlists
https://github.com/psidex/playlist2podcast
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A self-hosted application that lets you create podcast RSS feeds from YouTube playlists
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/psidex/playlist2podcast
- Owner: psidex
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2021-09-19T18:03:40.000Z (about 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2022-02-19T22:54:43.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2023-03-06T05:36:05.464Z (over 1 year ago)
- Topics: hosting, podcast, podcasting, rss, self-hosted, youtube, youtube-playlist, youtube-playlists
- Language: Python
- Homepage: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/psidex/playlist2podcast
- Size: 55.7 KB
- Stars: 14
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Playlist2Podcast
[](https://github.com/psidex/playlist2podcast/actions/workflows/main.yml)
[](https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/psidex/playlist2podcast)
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A self-hosted application that lets you create podcast RSS feeds from YouTube
playlists.
## What Does This Do?
Takes a list of YouTube playlists and:
- Downloads all the videos in audio only format (best quality)
- Generates an RSS XML feed and writes it to a file so that the audio files can
be used/read by podcast apps
The generated RSS XML file is located at
`podcasts_path/playlist_title/podcast.xml`.
If the playlist title has special characters, p2p makes the name safe for
filesystems, so will change and/or remove special characters from the directory
name. To get the directory name, the easiest way is to either `ls` your podcast
directory or look in the logs.
## What Does This Not Do?
This does not actually host the downloaded/created files, you will need a static
web server for that, I reccomend [Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/) or
[nginx](https://www.nginx.com/).
The directory you want to serve is the same one that you put as the
`podcasts_path` config variable.
Once you have that setup you can simply put the URL to each generated
`podcast.xml` into your chosen podcast app, for example
`https://podcasts.example.com/test/podcast.xml` where `test` is the name of the
directory that p2p saved a podcasts data to.
## Running & Config
The requirements in `requirements.txt` need installing first, you can do this your own way or by doing `pip install -r requirements.txt`.
Run p2p with `python main.py`, or see below for Docker.
Once running p2p will check for playlist updates once every 24 hours.
p2p will look for a `config.yaml` file where it is run, if running in Docker you
will want to mount it in `/app`, like so:
```bash
-v $(pwd)/config.yaml:/app/config.yaml:ro
```
Here's what the contents should look like:
```yaml
# The URL that you are going to be hosting the podcast files at.
host_base_url: "https://podcasts.example.com/"
# The path (either on your system or inside the Docker container) that will contain the podcast data.
podcasts_path: "/podcasts"
# The date since to download videos. Will download only videos uploaded on or after this date.
# The date can be "YYYYMMDD" or in the format "(now|today)[+-][0-9](day|week|month|year)(s)?"
# (see "dateafter" on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#general-options for more info).
# Optional parameter: skip it or set empty to download all videos.
dateafter: "today-6months"
# The list of playlists to download and host. MUST be playlist URLs, NOT video URLs.
podcasts:
- "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTLwdZqDsAvtGmVvJqRS2czLq2YZ_ZHPJ"
```
## Docker
Example run command:
```bash
docker run -d --name p2p --restart unless-stopped \
-v $(pwd)/config.yaml:/app/config.yaml:ro \
-v $(pwd)/podcasts:/podcasts \
psidex/playlist2podcast
```
Don't forget if you're using the Docker build, `podcast_path` in `config.yaml`
should reference the path _inside_ the container, not outside it.
## Credits
Uses [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) to download the playlists and
[feedgen](https://feedgen.kiesow.be/) to create the RSS XML.