mxpv / podsync

Turn YouTube or Vimeo channels, users, or playlists into podcast feeds

Podsync

Podsync - is a simple, free service that lets you listen to any YouTube / Vimeo channels, playlists or user videos in podcast format.

Podcast applications have a rich functionality for content delivery - automatic download of new episodes, remembering last played position, sync between devices and offline listening. This functionality is not available on YouTube and Vimeo. So the aim of Podsync is to make your life easier and enable you to view/listen to content on any device in podcast client.

Features

• Works with YouTube and Vimeo.
• Supports feeds configuration: video/audio, high/low quality, max video height, etc.
• mp3 encoding
• Update scheduler supports cron expressions
• Episodes filtering (match by title, duration).
• Feeds customizations (custom artwork, category, language, etc).
• OPML export.
• Supports episodes cleanup (keep last X episodes).
• One-click deployment for AWS.
• Runs on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Docker.
• Supports ARM.
• Automatic youtube-dl self update.
• Supports API keys rotation.

Dependencies

If you're running the CLI as binary (e.g. not via Docker), you need to make sure that dependencies are available on your system. Currently, Podsync depends on youtube-dl , ffmpeg, and go.

On Mac you can install those with brew:

brew install youtube-dl ffmpeg go

Documentation

• How to get Vimeo API token
• How to get YouTube API Key
• Podsync on QNAP NAS Guide
• Schedule updates with cron

Nightly builds

Nightly builds uploaded every midnight from the main branch and available for testing:

$ docker run -it --rm ghcr.io/mxpv/podsync:nightly

Access tokens

In order to query YouTube or Vimeo API you have to obtain an API token first.

• How to get YouTube API key
• Generate an access token for Vimeo

Configuration

You need to create a configuration file (for instance config.toml) and specify the list of feeds that you're going to host. See config.toml.example for all possible configuration keys available in Podsync.

Minimal configuration would look like this:

[server]
port = 8080

[storage]
  [storage.local]
  data_dir = "/data/podsync/"

[tokens]
youtube = "PASTE YOUR API KEY HERE"

[feeds]
    [feeds.ID1]
    url = "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxC5Ls6DwqV0e-CYcAKkExQ"

If you want to hide Podsync behind reverse proxy like nginx, you can use hostname field:

[server]
port = 8080
hostname = "https://my.test.host:4443"

[feeds]
  [feeds.ID1]
  ...

Server will be accessible from http://localhost:8080, but episode links will point to https://my.test.host:4443/ID1/...

One click deployment

How to run

Build and run as binary:

Make sure you have created the file config.toml. Also note the location of the data_dir. Depending on the operating system, you may have to choose a different location since /app/data might be not writable.

$ git clone https://github.com/mxpv/podsync
$ cd podsync
$ make
$ ./bin/podsync --config config.toml

How to debug

Use the editor Visual Studio Code and install the official Go extension. Afterwards you can execute "Run & Debug" ▶︎ "Debug Podsync" to debug the application. The required configuration is already prepared (see .vscode/launch.json).

Run via Docker:

$ docker pull mxpv/podsync:latest
$ docker run \
    -p 8080:8080 \
    -v $(pwd)/data:/app/data/ \
    -v $(pwd)/config.toml:/app/config.toml \
    mxpv/podsync:latest

Run via Docker Compose:

$ docker-compose up

How to make a release

Just push a git tag. CI will do the rest.

podsync's Issues

Wrong audio format

I use the docker version to generate a feed from youtube channel in audio format (quality = "high" format = "audio"), the files are stored in a folder (data_dir="/app/data/") and have the right name and extension (.mp3), but the files aren't mp3 anche can't be played.

I made some test in macOS and the error seams in youtube-dl

this command produce wrong file:
youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --format bestaudio --output data/abc/TA-c16e_zZ8.mp3 https://youtube.com/watch\?v\=TA-c16e_zZ8

this command without output param produce the right mp3 but in wrong location:
youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --format bestaudio https://youtube.com/watch\?v\=TA-c16e_zZ8

Option to select larger download size for videos

Even though I select "high" quality on the podsync website before inputting my url, a 3 minute 1080p video on youtube will only download to a 15mb file size and looks pretty bad on my 6 inch phone screen.

Feeds Aren't Updating

None of my feeds are updating at this point. If I recreate them it will pull the more recent episodes, but then those recreated ones won't update either.

FAQ section

TODO:

• Implement API to query FAQ items from DynamoDB
• Add FAQ web page on frontend side
• Modify support form - add "I've read FAQ and didn't find an answer to my question"
• Gather FAQ questions

Can I delete my feed?

Not manually. Feeds are automatically deleted if not used for more than 90 days.

I am trying to turn the link below into a podcast form (to listen to on my phone) and it doesn't seem to be working? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXxxxXXxXxX

Podsync can't build a feed from just one video. You have to provide a link either to a channel, user, or playlist.

Audio podcast is double the length of the video, and the second half is silent

This is known issue. Unfortunately as of now I don't have any fix for this.

I am trying to download some files, but it is giving the following error "Download failed, error code 403 forbidden". Is there a solution?

That happens because you're in a different region than Podsync. More details on this here. I've been working on multi-region support, fix is coming soon.

Does feeds auto-update as new videos show up on YouTube? Or do they just represent a snapshot of whenever you generated them?

Feeds are updated every 10 minutes.

Is it possible to get a podcast of all videos in "watch later" on YouTube?

No, that would require "login with your YouTube account" on Podsync. Instead you might want to create custom playlist and add there videos you want to watch.

make: *** No rule to make target 'build'. Stop.

Recreation Steps:
From root directory, run sudo make build

Expected result:
Build logic from Makefile

Result:
make: *** No rule to make target 'build'. Stop.

See attached screenshot.

It looks like there is no build command in Makefile currently.

SUBDIRS := cmd/api cmd/nginx
BINPATH := $(abspath ./bin)
GOLANGCI := $(BINPATH)/golangci-lint

.PHONY: push
push:
for d in $(SUBDIRS); do $(MAKE) -C $$d push; done

$(GOLANGCI):
curl -sfL https://install.goreleaser.com/github.com/golangci/golangci-lint.sh | sh -s -- -b $(BINPATH) v1.17.1
$(GOLANGCI) --version

.PHONY: lint
lint: $(GOLANGCI)
$(GOLANGCI) run

.PHONY: test
test:
go test -short ./...

.PHONY: up
up:
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d

Login doesn't work from www.podsync.net

Howdy! Just patron'd, love the service, wanted to investigate the quality settings (not well documented as to exactly what the difference is between low and high quality…) and can't log in with patreon… the podsync feed URL is a GitHub Gist containing the JSON message I get in Safari. Looks like a "www." vs. no "www." issue, as scrubbing "www." from the origin URL seems to have corrected the issue. Have a great day, and keep on' being awesome!

Fix IP restrictions with YouTube links

Hello Maksym,
ok. Bummer! I’ve tried another service, which seems to be working with the live streamed clip, and access the file on google server properly http://www.listentoyoutube.com/ - maybe some way of checking how they access the file?

Also, its not working on iTunes. I tried it on another computer without any luck. Maybe some caching issues, i don’t know - but it won’t even start the ones the previously worked. Also tried another youtube-channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/ADDatWorkProductions + http://podsync.net/pKBV ) , and audio-version - but it won’t start. Here the log from iTunes

förval 10:52:22.696577 +0100 iTunes TCP Conn 0x600000380f70 started
förval 10:52:22.719424 +0100 iTunes TCP Conn 0x600000380f70 event 1. err: 0
förval 10:52:22.719453 +0100 iTunes TCP Conn 0x600000380f70 complete. fd: 42, err: 0
förval 10:52:22.719635 +0100 iTunes TCP Conn 0x600000380f70 starting SSL negotiation
förval 10:52:22.782344 +0100 iTunes TCP Conn 0x600000380f70 SSL Handshake DONE
förval 10:52:22.906139 +0100 mediaremoted Setting 23 supported commands for com.apple.iTunes
förval 10:52:22.906306 +0100 iTunes Suppressing kMRMediaRemoteSupportedCommandsDidChangeNotification -- client process did not ask to receive these notifications.
förval 10:52:22.953693 +0100 iTunes TCP Conn 0x600000380f70 canceled
förval 10:52:22.995070 +0100 iTunes Received Media Remote client notification kMRMediaRemoteNowPlayingApplicationPlaybackStateDidChangeNotification
förval 10:52:23.074284 +0100 iTunes ### PlayQueue::StartPlayingNextInternal: played off the end of the queue
förval 10:52:23.186577 +0100 mediaremoted Setting 23 supported commands for com.apple.iTunes
förval 10:52:23.186749 +0100 iTunes Suppressing kMRMediaRemoteSupportedCommandsDidChangeNotification -- client process did not ask to receive these notifications.
förval 10:52:23.191014 +0100 iTunes Received Media Remote client notification kMRMediaRemoteNowPlayingApplicationPlaybackStateDidChangeNotification
förval 10:52:23.197580 +0100 iTunes Setting identical now playing info, skipping update.
förval 10:52:23.197618 +0100 iTunes Clearing now playing info
förval 10:52:23.197642 +0100 iTunes Setting identical now playing info, skipping update.
förval 10:52:23.197661 +0100 iTunes Clearing now playing info
förval 10:52:23.197847 +0100 iTunes Clearing now playing info
förval 10:52:23.197878 +0100 iTunes Setting identical now playing info, skipping update.
förval 10:52:23.197901 +0100 iTunes Clearing now playing info
förval 10:52:23.197924 +0100 iTunes Setting identical now playing info, skipping update.
förval 10:52:23.197944 +0100 iTunes Clearing now playing info

Set page size to 5 but it still downloaded 50

Running the cli version 2.0.1

I have the page size set to 5 but it went through downloading until it had done 50
I notice it lists the format and quality when it runs but it doesnt show the page size.

Is this abuy or am i misunderstanding?

INFO[2019-11-14T19:38:32Z] -> updating https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCabq3No3wXbs6Ut-Pux6SzA/videos feed_id=TryChannel format=video quality=high
INFO[2019-11-14T19:38:32Z] running listener at :8421
INFO[2019-11-14T19:38:33Z] ! downloading episode https://youtube.com/watch?v=cNi8Aaf568E episode_id=cNi8Aaf568E index=42
INFO[2019-11-14T19:38:51Z] ! downloading episode https://youtube.com/watch?v=E7bPGdWJrIs episode_id=E7bPGdWJrIs index=43
INFO[2019-11-14T19:39:10Z] ! downloading episode https://youtube.com/watch?v=C0uCAEfLA1w episode_id=C0uCAEfLA1w index=44
INFO[2019-11-14T19:39:53Z] ! downloading episode https://youtube.com/watch?v=_PQnkjgspNk episode_id=_PQnkjgspNk index=45
INFO[2019-11-14T19:40:32Z] ! downloading episode https://youtube.com/watch?v=lkG2u1Zua-Q episode_id=lkG2u1Zua-Q index=46
INFO[2019-11-14T19:40:55Z] ! downloading episode https://youtube.com/watch?v=qHz8hpxszdw episode_id=qHz8hpxszdw index=47
INFO[2019-11-14T19:41:10Z] ! downloading episode https://youtube.com/watch?v=iWAV7L-stxQ episode_id=iWAV7L-stxQ index=48
INFO[2019-11-14T19:41:28Z] ! downloading episode https://youtube.com/watch?v=YSjAbXHNn0I episode_id=YSjAbXHNn0I index=49
INFO[2019-11-14T19:41:48Z] successfully updated feed in 3m16.6572769s, downloaded: 8 episode(s), next update at 7:41AM

cannot unmarshal bool into Go struct field EmbedSettings.color of type string

https://podsync.net/ele0
failed to query videos (error 200 200 OK): json: cannot unmarshal bool into Go struct field EmbedSettings.color of type string

XML extension for feeds

In castamatic iOS app suor feed won't be recognised, i suppose because it doesn't had the .xml at end, please is it possibile to have the same feed but with the .xml at the end?

Some podcasts are coming in with exactly double the actual runtime and with the second half just silence.

For example, http://podsync.net/DAgA (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHZela1qTNM9iIw2YxenIw) which includes http://podsync.net/download/DAgA/K-kqyeVM_Qc.m4a (https://youtube.com/watch?v=K-kqyeVM_Qc). XML lists the duration as 00:14:39 and the fileSize as 307650000. The file downloads (either directly in Chrome or via https://play.pocketcasts.com) as an mp4 file of 13,960,760 bytes.

Mac’s Quick Look does not recognize the file as playable. Both QuickTime and and VLC (for VLC, Mac or Win) will open and play the file but dragging the playhead into the silence causes playback problems. iOS (e.g. Dropbox or Pocket Casts) will play the file but it’s half silence. In Chrome (Mac) or Edge (Win), the downloaded file has the correct duration and plays OK. Attempting to copy the file over a network on Windows with TeraCopy errors with the Status ’SetEndOfFile fails, try enabling “Use system write cache” option’.

I hope this helps.

Fix feed thumbnails

Would you consider using the maxresdefault.jpg thumbnails, instead of default.jpg thumbnails? So glad to have found your service!

Pagination support

• YouTube pagination
• Vimeo (check null pages)

Move to AWS / Cost optimization

• Add gzip (c18b1b0)
• Clarify ALB traffic routing?
• Migrate resolver to container (drop lambda)
• Migrate resolve request counter to RDS
• Mirror updates from DynamoDB/Redis to RDS
• Migrate updater lambda to container/instance (drop lambda).
• Drop DynamoDB/Redis.
• Add RDS cleaner lambda (clean abandoned feeds)
• Move pledge updates to a separate container or lambda
• Fix AWS permissions (use instance role instead of hardcoded keys).
• Move images to ECR
• Consider moving to ECS for higher availability (run containers on 2+ instances) with

Costs
RDS: ~$30
ALB: ~ $40
EC2: ~$2x30
Other: ~$20
--
Total: $150

youtube channel no longer working consistently?

is it just me or has anyone else been having issues with youtube channels converted to a podcast feed? new items are still being added but they don't play majority of the time. sometimes if i keep hitting play over and over it'll work eventually.

edit: nevermind, saw the tweet, seems this is a known issue.

Feed error downloading 1 video skips all further videos

I a feed where one of the videos has a copyright violation error, the updater skips all future files.

I believe this stems from https://github.com/mxpv/podsync/blob/master/cmd/podsync/updater.go#L95 which goes like:

		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
			// There is no file on disk, download episode
			logger.Infof("! downloading episode %s", episode.VideoURL)
			if output, err := u.downloader.Download(ctx, feedConfig, episode.VideoURL, episodePath); err != nil {
				logger.WithError(err).Errorf("youtube-dl error: %s", output)

				// YouTube might block host with HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests
				// We still need to generate XML, so just stop sending download requests and
				// retry next time
				break
			}

			downloaded++
		} else {
			// Episode already downloaded
			logger.Debug("skipping download of episode")
		}

I can see in the comments that the break is there for a reason; I'm guessing that it's to cover HTTP error 429. However, the youtube-dl error is:

[youtube] xxxxxxxxxxx: Downloading webpage\n[youtube] xxxxxxxxxxx: Downloading video info webpage\nERROR: This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it on copyright grounds.\nSorry about that.\n"

I think that the errors need to be checked and while the 429 errors should stop the update process, other errors should be allowed to continue to the next file.

Handle private channels

Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjM-3dwp2cToylYQsKzVYZA
Feed: http://podsync.net/JrWL
Response: Invalid page count

Migrate to AWS

• Migrate Postgres from GCP to RDS/Lightsail
• Migrate from DigitalOcean to Lightsail

Let's Encrypt support

Integrate let's encrypt support for embedded https.
golang.org/x/crypto/acme/autocert looks like a good start for this. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37321760/how-to-set-up-lets-encrypt-for-a-go-server-application

ref: #47

No readme updates

Deleted

Too big audio file

** Hi Max, thanks for this good service! One of my concern is: The podcasting file is too big. Take https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxXxxXXxX for example, each episode is about 45 minutes. I set the podcast to audio format and worst quality, it's still 900M each file: http://podsync.net/Xxxxx (actually the size doesn't change whatever format/quality I set)

Thanks Max! I opened the feed using "Pocket Casts" App on android, and it shows ~900M for each file. Now I using another app "Podcast Go", the size is normal. Another question, why the "length" in "enclosure" tag of the xml is very big, such as "500150000"?

Downloader expcetions

2017-10-26 18:08:12 - (sanic)[ERROR]: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/sanic/app.py", line 503, in handle_request
    response = await response
  File "/app/ytdl.py", line 43, in download
    json = r.json()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 892, in json
    return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/json/__init__.py", line 354, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 339, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 357, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

2017-10-26 18:08:12 - (network)[INFO][172.18.0.5:53912]: GET http://ytdl:5002/download/youtube/HkvE_0k_2q0.mp4  500 144
2017-10-26 18:08:12 - (sanic)[ERROR]: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/sanic/app.py", line 503, in handle_request
    response = await response
  File "/app/ytdl.py", line 43, in download
    json = r.json()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 892, in json
    return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/json/__init__.py", line 354, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 339, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 357, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

Add docker to VS 2017 project

Move youtube-dl to separate container

Title of video is "_"

Video title is being returned as "_" (an underscore).

...
<item>
      <guid>https://dl.podsync.net/download/pzyl/T-lBMrjZ3_0.mp4</guid>
      <title>_</title>
      <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-lBMrjZ3_0</link>  
...

Example:
https://podsync.net/pzyl

As displayed in iTunes:

Implement copy on iOS

Hi, first, love your service, keep it going! But on iOS (iPhoneX) is almost imposible to copy generated link. Its just too long. Can you add copy to clipboard? Its posible, here is how: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34045777/copy-to-clipboard-using-javascript-in-ios

"http://" and port number forced on feed xml addresses

I have podsync running on my own server behind nginx, with https enabled.
This means it is available at "https://podsync.myserver.net". However, the xml feed contains references to "http://podsync.myserver.net:9090/", which does not work for two reasons: it does not use ssl, which is required on my server + port 9090 is not exposed, the "podsync" subdomain just redirects to it.

Creating nfo files....- a bit of a different direction.

Runing podsync as docker.

When I run it, I see it downloads all the mp4 files.....so i naturually thought, hmm maybe I can put these in plex as a library. The easiest way I can think of doing this, is for each media file to add an nfo file.

i don't know go to save myself, but if I hacked around inside the container and added a method like buildpodcast (in updater.go) for nfo, and wrote out a new file each time, would it run (ie like python does), or is go compiled like c, So I'd have to rebuild the image?

Switch to HTTPS

• Implement reverse proxy using nginx
• Add let's encrypt certificates
• Auto update certificates
• Add gzip compression and HTML minification (optimize for mobile devices)

Author field

Message (required) 
Hi,

Thank you for such a wonderful service. I was just wondering if it were possible to sort out the Author attribution. Currently on my feedburner it says that it's 'Unknown' on Apple Podcasts, and we'd love it to say British Rationals which is the name of the channel. 

ARM architecture support

First of all, really like your work.
Are you planning on adding ARM support, so we can run Podsync on the Raspberry Pi and similar devices?

Downloaded files are mp3 but feed contains reference to m4a

I have set up my own self-hosted version to track a youtube channel.
I've set it up as "low quality audio". I see that the episodes are downloaded in mp3 format.
However, the resulting xml-file for the feed contains references to m4a files, hence the feed does not work in my podcast app, because it fails with "file not found". The filenames are correct, just the extsenion is wrong.

Podsync version: commit=7c1b1046f19fee5fa85bb34c0f7edec7013d55f7 date="2019-11-14T06:56:06Z" version=2.0.1
using youtube-dl 2019.01.17
using ffmpeg ffmpeg version 4.1.4-1~deb10u1

Integrate Uncaptcha2 to solve rate limiting challenges.

Captcha challenges got you down? Not for long! Not any more!

These tools solve, with automation and no user interaction of any kind, 95% of captcha challenges. See issue 286 on https://github.com/google/recaptcha/ — wanting to avoid actual issue metadata linking, but it's the most hilariously appropriate issue ever created. ;P

(Captcha is bad, and Google should feel bad.)

Podcast won't load

Hi everyone,
there is an issue with sound and video output after subscribing to it using Podcast. Cover and names and lenght of the included items are loaded but after pressing play there is no audio and video output.

Podsync not updating new content

Podsync isn't updating new uploads from YouTube, not sure about other sites. It did sync once, but that was like after 36 hours. But after that one time, it haven't been updating. It's been 3 days (Aug 17) on my system since new content has been available through the feed.

Move secrets to secret manager

Feed xml does not contain the custom port number

I am running the CLI on port 8421 but the xml feed generated doesn't include this in the path to the video.
This generate a not found error when i try to play it

So

http://mydomain.homeip.net/TryChannel/IWihhlAW-2s.mp4

need to be

http://mydomain.homeip.net:8421/TryChannel/IWihhlAW-2s.mp4

Support episodes cleanup

I have set one of the channels' page_size to 10, and there were more than 10 new videos on the channel after the 1st query. After the 2nd update, 10 more new episodes were downloaded. The feed display the most recent 10 new episodes, but the previously downloaded files still remains in the downloaded folder. Is this expected behavior? I feel like if the xml file doesn't include the old downloaded files, they should be removed after the feed is generated during each query.

Missing LICENSE file

The Podsync repo is missing a LICENSE file in the root of the repo.

Where to obtain podsync_lambda

Totally docker newbie here, so I maybe asking something obvious.
When I try to pull images, I get this error message:

ERROR: for resolver  pull access denied for mxpv/podsync_lambda, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login'

If I am expected to generate my own image and push it to my own registry, can you share a quick recipe for accomplishing this?

thanks

Use cron expressions for update scheduler

There are episodes that come out, for instance, every Friday at 8 pm.
So there is no reason to check for updates every 6 hours and drain API tokens.
Instead we can specify cron expression to check for update every Friday at 8:15pm

Cleanup

Does it clean up old episodes to save space? Documentation says nothing regarding cleanup. And if so, is it configurable? If not, it may be worth to add this feature. And make it configurable. best would be to be able to configure max files and max size per feed. If configured both, the first one hit would be effective. Global would also be nice.

Fix markup on iOS 10

@pod_sync and here is how it looks (bug)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C1Y90alXgAAEcpK.jpg

Fix audio playback on Pocket Casts

I've just started using your service to download audio podcasts, but playback only works when streaming, and not when i've downloaded the episode.
I use Pocket Casts (version 6.5) on an iPhone 6 (iOs 10.2.1), and the youtube channel is The Ling Space (https://www.youtube.com/user/thelingspace http://podsync.net/LwXl).

Here's exactly what happens when I try downloading episodes:
The episode seems to download just fine.
When I click the play button, the episode opens but nothing happens. Then I get this message if I try to play the episode again: "Playback failed. The episode might be corrupted, but you can try to play it again."
The duration of the episodes often seems to be wrong. For example it says this episode [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xi81H80J-w ] is 20 min long, but it's actually just 10 min long. This mistake is corrected when I hit the play button.

Audio feed returned as video

hey max

thanks for the service. need a little help.

i signed up for your patreon so i could download youtube playlists into audio podcasts (which allow me to open other apps while the podcast is playing)

i'm trying to take this playlist and turn it into an audio podcast feed, but no matter what i try to do, it ends up being a video podcast feed. so any time i close the podcast app, the podcast stops playing

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlATC9A2NkJ-he8_O7fwpwCjumG5je6Xu

any help much appreciated. thanks!

Switch to self hosted version (aka Podsync CLI)

All workarounds that I did last few months are related to finding ways to bypass various limitations (API tokens has limited quotas, the number of download requests is limited). I believe that the current path forward is to switch to self hosted version, which would allow to not only use it normally, but add some neat features (like mp3 support).

This issue is to track progress:

• Add CLI entrypoint
• TOML configuration
• Adapt current feed engine for YouTube
• Adapt current feed engine for Vimeo
• youtube-dl wrapper
• Implement feed updater
• Implement episode downloader
• Web server with static file hosting
• Mp3 encoder
• Write Dockerfile for easy deployment
• Write unit tests
• Integrate with GitHub actions
• Update documentation and write tutorials for a different cloud providers
• Versioning, releaser script

Patreon post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/self-hosted-aka-31073377

Some Episodes Won't Download

I am having an issue where some episodes in a feed won't ever download. This has been happening to only certain episodes for about two weeks now. I've tried generating new versions of the feeds and different ways of downloading them and the problem persists, always with the same videos while others work fine.

What happens is they sit and try to download for an extended period of time, never make progress, and then eventually error out.

The Tested Youtube channel has multiple examples: https://podsync.net/1q6W2ZNf5

Specifically, the (currently most recent) episode titled "Cutting it Close - Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project" is one of the ones that won't download.

Implement Vimeo support

We need to return Vimeo back

Playlist order support

Just found your awesome site! having a small issue though. Is there a way to reverse the playlist order? the playlist creator sorts it in ascending order.

Avoid folder indexing

I would like to avoid scraping of my server by (optionally) eliminating the indexing of files from the root directory.

Current behaviour: GET / returns a page containing an index comprised of podcast folders and feeds. GET /podcastID returns a page containing a list of MP3s

Requested behavioue: GET / returns 404; GET /podcastID returns 404