A minimalistic python podcast downloader
Aimed to download old NPR Planet Money podcasts provided by this repo, will test on other feeds in the future
PodcastDownloader downloads podcasts from general RSS reeds, NPRPodcastDownloader downloads only NPR podcasts, also downloads transcript when available.
Downloaded NPR contents are for Personal Use Only
Requires feedparser
Audiobook build scripts requires Audiobook Binder, make sure the abbinder
is in your $PATH
$ python PodcastDownloader.py --year -r {podcast_feed}
abbinder
may throw segfault at chapter building phase at the end of file conversion, especially when chapter list is long- Life Kit feed won't be included in
npr_podcasts.json
automatically because it has a different url pattern. It can be manually added though.