Podgen is a tool for statically generate a podcast site with itunes enabled rss. After putting your generated online, you could register your rss against itunes podcast so that your awesome voice could be reached everywhere.
This project is highly inspired by go projects from hashicorp. The ./scripts is from consul and the CLI is modified based on vault (this is not true anymore, now the CLI is using github.com/spf13/cobra).
For Mac OSX, the easiest way to download the current release from tyrchen/podgen release.
Later on we will support homebrew so that you could install directly with:
$ brew install podgen
For linux user, please download source code and compile it yourself.
podgen doesn't support windows at this stage. I will finish all the functionalities then consider windows support. Sorry.
To use podgen, first of all, you need to init a site. Please create a repo in github and close it into your local directory:
$ git clone git@github.com:yourname/xyz.git
$ cd xyz
$ podgen init [--template github.com/tyrchen/podgen-basic]
[note] If you don't pass --template to the init command, it will use the tyrchen/podgen-basic template from github.
It will create configuration files for you to use:
$ ls
build CNAME channel.yml items.yml assets template
And it will create a gh-pages branch to store the build target. Just same as any other github powered static site.
Then edit channel.yml to put your channel information and add your podcast items into items.yml. Finally copy your mp3 into assets folder. You're almost set! Ah, if you want to use it against your customer domain, set the CNAME file!
The last step is to build the project:
$ podgen build
Build should be done very quickly. It will generate the podcast site and rss, put them into build, then push all the changes under build to gh-pages. You shall then see the generated site in less than a minute.
If everything looks fine. You just need to issue "podgen push" to push the source and generated html to master and gh-pages.
$ podgen push -m "add a new episode"
Meanwhile, your itunes podcast app shall get the latest rss. Try it and have fun!
If later on you want to add new episode, just run podgen new and it will create new items in your items.yml. Just change the title/description and put your music file into assets directory and you're all set!
Feel free to view a live demo of my podcast site: programmer life. It is also available in iTunes/podcast.