Youtube to Anchor.fm - An automation tool to publish your podcast

This action will upload an audio file from a given youtube video automatically to your Anchor.fm account.

It is very useful in a scenario where you have a YouTube account and also a podcast over Spotify, Anchor.fm, Play Music, iTunes etc.

In our live show (Schrodinger Hat) we had this necessity. So we built it for the open source community.

Every contribution it is appreciated, also a simple feedback.

How it works

The workflow is using youtube-dl library and puppeteer.

The first one is a npm module used for donwloading the video / audio from YouTube, meanwhile Puppeteer will upload the generated file into the Anchor.fm dashboard (by loggin it).

The action will start everytime you push a change on the episode.json file. Into this file you need to specify the youtube id of your video.

The action use a docker image built over ubuntu 18.04. It take some times to setup the environment (installing dependecies and chromium browser).

How can I use it?

You can use the latest version of this action from the Github Actions marketplace.

In your repository root directory you should add a episode.json file containing your youtube video id, e.g:

{
  "id": "nHCXZC2InAA"
}

Then you can add under the .github/workflows directory this yml:

name: 'Upload Episode from YouTube To Anchor.Fm'

on:
  push:
    paths: 
      - episode.json
    branches: [main]

jobs:
  upload_episode:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Upload Episode from YouTube To Anchor.Fm
        uses: Schrodinger-Hat/youtube-to-anchorfm@v0.1.8
        env:
          ANCHOR_EMAIL: ${{ secrets.ANCHOR_EMAIL }}
          ANCHOR_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.ANCHOR_PASSWORD }}
          EPISODE_PATH: /github/workflow

NOTE: you need to set up the secrets for ANCHOR_EMAIL and ANCHOR_PASSWORD. This environment variables are mandatory as they specify the signin account.

Draft Mode

By setting the SAVE_AS_DRAFT, the new episode will be published as a draft. This can be useful if you need someone else's approval before actual publication.

env:
   SAVE_AS_DRAFT: true

Audio conversion options

ffmpeg is used to convert the video do MP3. It's possible to pass arguments to ffmpeg with POSTPROCESSOR_ARGS enviroment variable.

See -postprocessor-args syntax and options on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#post-processing-options.

The example below convert the video to mono audio.

env:
   POSTPROCESSOR_ARGS: "ffmpeg:-ac 1"

Credits

@thejoin & @wabri

License

MIT