Do you want to save a podcast to your local machine? Maybe you are canceling your podcast service subscription but you don't want to permanently lose all your episodes. Maybe a podcast is getting canceled and you want to save the content. Or maybe you just want to archive a show for the future!
This program will download the RSS feed, cover art, and all the episode audio files. It will then make a simple website from the titles and descriptions of the show itself and the episodes. The website has simple relative links to it can be used on a machine with no web server. Just open an .html file in the browser. The program also compresses everything in a nice tar ball.
- Git
- Linux, MacOS or Windows 10 with WSL
- Python 3+
git clone https://github.com/mr-rigden/PodcastArchiver.git
cd PodcastArchiver
python3 python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
positional arguments:
url Podcast RSS URL
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --verbose increase output verbosity
MIT License
Copyright 2019 Jason Rigden
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