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https://github.com/znielsen/podracer
A podcast catch-up service
https://github.com/znielsen/podracer
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A podcast catch-up service
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/znielsen/podracer
- Owner: ZNielsen
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2020-11-03T21:09:44.000Z (about 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-08-23T18:27:56.000Z (4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-08-23T20:17:03.668Z (4 months ago)
- Topics: hacktoberfest, hacktoberfest2021, hacktoberfest2022, podcasts, rocket, rust
- Language: Rust
- Homepage:
- Size: 41.5 MB
- Stars: 4
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 22
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE-APACHE
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README
# PodRacer
[](https://www.codefactor.io/repository/github/znielsen/podracer)
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A podcast catch-up service running on your very own server!
I'm running one at [podracer.zachn.me](http://podracer.zachn.me), feel free to take the service for a spin. I'm planning on keeping this up and available for free, but I'm not making any promises -- if it starts to get swamped I'll have to figure out something more scalable.
## Features
- **Time shift podcasts** - Have a favorite show that died out and want to relive it? PodRacer lets you experience it anew by creating a feed where the first episode was published _today_.
- **Two rate-control modes**
- **Variable publishing rate** - Do you want to catch up on serial podcast? Set the rate to be > 1x and PodRacer will scale the shifted publish dates, letting you slowly (or quickly) catch up to real time. Podcasts coming at you too fast? Set the rate to be < 1x to make a bi-weekly show weekly, or a weekly show bi-weekly.
- **Publish every X days** - For archived podcasts that have all episodes "published" on the same day, PodRacer can set a fixed amount of time between each episode, restoring the periodic publishing feel.
- **Integrates new episodes** - Once you catch up, PodRacer integrates the new episodes as they are published, seamlessly transferring you over to the "normal" listening experience.
- **Self hosted** - complete autonomy over your feeds.
PodRacer is most useful if you prefer to listen to your podcasts as they are published (i.e. they are dropped into a feed, and you just listen in order). It lets legacy content seamlessly fit into the stream of contemporary content.
Tests were done against [Overcast](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/overcast/id888422857) ([info](https://overcast.fm/podcasterinfo)). Other podcast players might have quirks I didn't see. Feel free to file a github issue and I'll do what I can to fix it up.
## Podcast Archiver
There is also a small utility tool `podarch`, used to archive all the episodes of a given feed. See `podarch -h` for usage.
## Installation
I run this service on a Raspberry Pi 3.
```bash
rustup update && cargo update && cargo build --release
```
It's going to take a very long time to build. That's Rust.
Sometimes (not quite sure why only sometimes) my Pi3 struggles to build when multiple threads are enabled (the default). You can `cargo clean && cargo build --release -j 1` to force building with only one thread. This will take way longer, but you don't run out of memory.
Builds go much faster on beefier hardware. Cross-compile by installing `cross` (via `cargo install cross`), then building for the Pi:
```bash
cross build --release --target=armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf --features vendored-openssl
```
The binary will end up in `target/armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/release`.
### Start the server
```bash
cargo run --release --bin podracer
```
Podcast clients will need to access the server remotely, so you will have to set up [port forwarding](https://www.howtogeek.com/66214/how-to-forward-ports-on-your-router/) in your router.
### Keeping the process alive
You can either run in a tmux instance or use `nohup` and send it to the background. I've set it up as a `systemd` service, but that is beyond the scope of this README.
## Docker method
If you wish to run PodRacer using docker, you can use the following run command:
```bash
docker run -d -v podracer_podcasts:/app/podcasts/ -p 41968:41968/tcp --name podracer ghcr.io/znielsen/podracer:latest
```
## Contributing
### License
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0 ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or )
- MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or )
at your option.
### Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any
additional terms or conditions.
### Donating
If you like it then you shoulda thrown a dollar at it.
If you found PodRacer useful, a donation would be great! Recommended $1/podcast (as in per feed run through the service, not per episode). No pressure, but supporting software you like is cool.
[](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=Y8HPAAJZTVT8E¤cy_code=USD)
### Maintainers
[Zach Nielsen](https://github.com/ZNielsen) - @ZNielsen