Podcasts

I use the Pocket Casts app to download a few podcasts I listen to, however I also wanted to download and keep all the episodes from some of these podcasts as an archive if you will on my machine. Space is limited on my phone where I do most of my podcast listening but I've got ample space on my primary machine.

Thus I wrote a small python podcast downloader that takes the RSS URL, parses the feed and its entries, identify the actual download link and downloads to a directory of my choosing if the episode isn't already downloaded.

A few packages that I found super useful when writing this are:

• rich
• feedparser
• requests
• pathlib
• argparse

argparse and pathlib are part of the standard library but Rich, Feedparser and Requests you'll have to install.

Install dependencies

poetry add feedparser
poetry add rich
poetry add requests
poetry install

Example run

poetry run python .\download_podcast_episodes.py "C:\Podcasts\"

Example output if you enable warnings just to verify you've already got files downloaded.

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