An app to explore the podcasting landscape -- from details concerning a specific podcast to overall, multi-decade trends.

This app was made for learning purposes, with a deliberate focus on docker, streamlit, sqlite3, and polars. It sources its data from the Podcast Index and directly from RSS feeds.

I propose a fully-dockerized, VS Code development environment:

• If you're under Windows: run wsl and start Docker Desktop.
• Run make run-dev-env.
• In the "Remote Explorer" tab (found in the Side Bar), find the Docker container, and select "Attach in Current Window".
• Open the /app folder, if that's not already where you are.
• Extensions are not always mirrored from VS Code in the local OS to VS Code in the container. Reinstall the extensions you miss. The recommended python extension is mandatory.
• Set the python interpreter as /usr/local/bin/python.
• If it's the first time you set this up (or if you want to update the database): run make etl-enrich to fetch and prepare the database. This takes a while (i.e., 42 min as of 2024-08-09).
• You're all set:
  • Launch the app using make run-app.
  • You can use the VS Code "Run and Debug" features.
  • If you want to run python code interactively in the development environment, add the following shortcut:

  {
      "key": "ctrl+enter",
      "command": "python.execSelectionInTerminal",
      "when": "editorTextFocus && !editorReadonly && editorLangId == 'python'"
  }