podboi

A simple cli for bulk downloading entire podcast feeds. Podboi also adds episode art and description as Id3 tags.

I wrote this for myself and thought I would share in the event anyone else finds it useful

Install

Here are a few ways to install podboi. Pick the one that you like the best.

npm / nodejs

1. Download and Install node.js or install nvm and install it with nvm. You should install the latest lts of node.
2. run npm install
3. from this project folder, run npm i -g .

Usage

from podboi --help

Usage: podboi [options]

podcast bulk downloader.  Adds images and description (and more) as id3 tags.

Options:
  -V, --version               output the version number
  -o, --out <dir>             output directory.  Defaults to current working directory.
  -d, --date                  append the published date to the file name
  -f, --feed <url, csv, txt>  the feed url, or a file containing feed urls  Feed files should be a
                              csv with the first column containing the feed url, or a plaintext
                              file with each feed seperated by a new line.
  -h, --help                  display help for command

Setup For Development

Traditional Git Checkout

1. Download and Install node.js or install nvm and install it with nvm. You should install the latest lts of node.
2. run npm install

Credits

• Testing audio file by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay

• Test jpeg image from The Library of Congress.