Podcast Updater
TypeScript / JavaScript files to read a webpage of links to audio files and generate a podcast XML file from that information.
Usage
To use this from the command-line, clone this repo and run the following:
$ node path/to/podcast-updater/cli.js ./path/to/your/config.json
To use this as an npm package...
- Install it:
$ npm install podcast-updater - Require it into your JS file:
var podcastUpdater = require('podcast-updater'); - Pass the
generatePodcastXmlfunction a JS object of your config data, along with a callback function:
podcastUpdater.generatePodcastXml(config, function(error, xml) { ... });
You can see the cli.js file for a working example.
To run this from within an AWS Lambda function, see Podcast Updater Lambda.
Config File
Since a podcast XML file requires more information than just names for and
links to MP3 files, you will need to provide a config.json file. Here is
a sample:
{
"title": "Sample Podcast",
"description": "A description of the podcast",
"subtitle": "A subtitle for the podcast",
"link": "http://sample.org/path/to/webpage-with-links-to-mp3s.html",
"language": "en-us",
"copyright": "Copyright 2016",
"webMaster": "webmaster's-email@example.org (Webmaster's Name)",
"author": "Podcast Author's Name",
"owner": {
"name": "Podcast Owner's Name",
"email": "podcast-owner's-email@example.org"
},
"explicit": "No",
"image": "http://example.org/path/to/image-for-the-podcast.jpg",
"category": "Podcast Category",
"subcategory": "Podcast Subcategory"
}
NOTE: For some reason, the URLs in a podcast XML file need to use HTTP, not HTTPS, at least for some podcast software.
License
This code is made available under the MIT license.