The poor internet on the farm due to the communist phone line means that a long slow downloads is required to take place over the night. This low-power server then sync using the excellent Syncthing (see here for my thoughts re this). This downloads includes podcasts which I have a numerous collection which I regularly work my way through the week. I've previously used Prodder for my podcasting needs but it seems recently not to be picking up a couple of feeds and podgrab another commandline program uses a database (overkill for me) and didn't have the right folder options. Both programs haven't been developed for a while.

So I decided to write my own. I proudly present pycast which is built in python. I've used the file formatting from prodder with a download subroutine from podgrab and the rest is just Beautifulsoup finding the mp3/m4a and downloading the program. It isn't very special, well tested and and the program with config files need to be run in the same folder. I could sort that out but it isn't pressing at the moment. I've also included a Pip requirement file for all the python dependancies

Here it is - pycast config.cfg Podcast_feeds stable-req.txt