Podly Pure Podcasts

Ad-block for podcasts. Create a private ad-free RSS feed.

Podly will:

download the requested episode
transcribe the episode
have Chat GPT label ad segments
remove the ad segments
deliver the ad-free version of the podcast to you

Usage

.env.example into new file .env. Update OPENAI_API_KEY with your key.
Start the server & note the URL.
- For example, 192.168.0.2:5001
Open a podcast app & subscribe to a podcast by appending the RSS to the podly endpoint.
- For example, to subscribe to https://mypodcast.com/rss.xml
- Subscribe to http://192.168.0.2:5001:5001/https://mypodcast.com/rss.xml
Select an episode & download
Wait patiently :). Transcription is the slowest part & takes about 1 minute per 15 minutes of podcast on an M3 macbook.

How To Run

Install ffmpeg

sudo apt install ffmpeg

Copy .env.example into new file .env. Update OPENAI_API_KEY with your key.

pip install pipenv
pipenv --python 3.11
pipenv install
pipenv shell
python src/main.py

Remote Setup

Podly works out of the box when running locally (see Usage). To run it on a remote server add SERVER to .env

SERVER=http://my.domain.com

Podly supports basic authentication. See below for example setup for httpd.conf.

LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so

ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:5001/
RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto http
RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Prefix /

SetEnv proxy-chain-auth On

# auth
<Location />
    AuthName "Registered User"
    AuthType Basic
    AuthUserFile /lib/protected.users
    require valid-user
</Location>

Add users by running:

sudo htpasswd -c /lib/protected.users [username]

Some apps will support basic auth in the URL like http://[username]:[pass]@my.domain.com

Ubuntu Service

Add a service file to /etc/systemd/system/podly.service

[Unit]
Description=Podly Podcast Service
After=network.target

[Service]
User=yourusername
Group=yourusername
WorkingDirectory=/path/to/your/app
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pipenv run python src/main.py
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

enable the service

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable podly.service

Environment Variables

If you're using OpenAI only the OPENAI_API_KEY is required.

OpenAI

OPENAI_API_KEY='sk-1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef'
OPENAI_API_BASE='https://api.openai.com/v1' # optional
OPENAI_MODEL='gpt-4o' # optional

Ollama

OPENAI_API_BASE='http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1'
OPENAI_TIMEOUT=300
OPENAI_MAX_TOKENS=4096
OPENAI_API_KEY='ollama'
OPENAI_MODEL='phi3:14b-medium-4k-instruct-q5_K_M'

Whisper

WHISPER_MODEL='base.en' # optional

To use OpenAI API instead of local model

REMOTE_WHISPER=TRUE # optional

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