I am a sailor. Just about the only time that I have time to listen to podcasts is on night watch. Often I will be away from unlimited high speed internet for months at a time. As a result, I needed a way to store podcasts when I had lots of free internet, and listen to them when I had little
Many of us sailors would just wget the files, and trade them via hard drive, but then you can't use your podcast app to listen to them.
Podcacher solves this problem. Once installed, click on the "New Podcast" link, and enter the URL of your favorite feed. If you, like me, already have a lot of cached files, you can supply the path to that directory as well. When you click on "Create Podcast" a background job will set up your podcast, and if you supplied a cache dir, it will import those files too.
Give that 5 minutes to complete, and then "View" your podcast. This will bring up a page that contains all of the episodes that have been published by the remote server. Anything that is locally cached will have a "Download" button under the episode description. Click "Download new episodes" to update from the remote server. It will skip any episodes that already have a media file.
ruby 2.4 or greater
rubygems
bundler (gem install bundler)
postgesql (database server)
redis server (for backgrounding)
clone this repository
cd podcacher
bundle install
rails db:setup
rails db:migrate
rails server This will start the rails server (in development mode) on port 3000. This should be fine for most cases, but if you would like to run in production mode, you'll need to do some more setup.
- Definitely scheduling would be nice. Also one off episode downloads
- A mechanism for exporting podcasts and media for import into another instance
- maybe make development use sqlite3 so folks don't have to set up postgres