Podcaster

Podcaster is a command line podcast player. It uses mpv as media player and stores podcast feeds in a SQLite database.

The general approach is adapted from podcast-player. Please check it out!

Development Status

The state of this project is well described by "kinda works for me". Contributions are always welcome.

• No Windows support
• No configuration
• No documentation
• No error handling
• No tests
• No convenience-functions like playing multiple episodes

Installation

git clone [this repository]
cd podcaster
pip install .

Usage

podcaster add URL  # saves podcast(s) to database
podcaster play     # opens menu to select podcast and episode
podcaster delete   # opens menu to select podcast(s) to remove from database

Dependencies

These are automatically installed when using pip to install podcaster:

• click - Python composable command line interface toolkit
• feedparser - Parse Atom and RSS feeds in Python
• sqlalchemy - The Database Toolkit for Python
• PyInquirer - A Python module for common interactive command line user interfaces

This needs to be installed separately using your system's package manager:

• mpv - a free, open source, and cross-platform media player