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.
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 and ffmpeg.
On Mac you can install those with brew:
brew install youtube-dl ffmpeg
Access tokens
In order to query YouTube or Vimeo API you have to obtain an API token first.
Configuration example
You need to create a configuration file (for instance config.toml) and specify the list of feeds that you're going to host.
Here is an example how configuration might look like:
[server]
port = 8080
data_dir = "/path/to/data/directory"
[tokens]
youtube = "{YOUTUBE_API_TOKEN}" # Tokens from `Access tokens` section
vimeo = "{VIMEO_API_TOKEN}"
[feeds]
[feeds.ID1]
url = "{FEED_URL}" # URL address of a channel, group, user, or playlist.
page_size = 50 # The number of episodes to query each update (keep in mind, that this might drain API token)
update_period = "12h" # How often query for updates, examples: "60m", "4h", "2h45m"
quality = "high" # or "low"
format = "video" # or "audio"
cover_art = "{IMAGE_URL}" # Optional URL address of an image file
max_height = "720" # Optional maximal height of video, example: 720, 1080, 1440, 2160, ...
Episodes files will be kept at: /path/to/data/directory/ID1, feed will be accessible from: http://localhost/ID1.xml
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
Run as binary:
$ ./podsync --config config.toml
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 run:
$ make release V=2.0.7