Podgrab

A self-hosted podcast manager to download episodes as soon as they become live
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Table of Contents

• About the Project
  • Motivation
  • Built With
• Installation
• License
• Roadmap
• Contact

About The Project

Podgrab is a is a self-hosted podcast manager which automatically downloads latest podcast episodes. It is a light-weight application built using GO.

It works best if you already know which podcasts you want to monitor. However there is a podcast search system powered by iTunes built into Podgrab

Developers Note: This project is under active development which means I release new updates very frequently. It is recommended that you use something like watchtower which will automatically update your containers whenever I release a new version or periodically rebuild the container with the latest image manually.

Motivation

Podgrab started a tool that I initially built to solve a specific problem I had. During the COVID pandemic times I started going for a run. I do not prefer taking by phone along so I would add podcast episodes to my smart watch which could be connected with my bluetooth earphones. Most podcasting apps do not expose the mp3 files directly which is why I decided to build this quick tool for myself. Once it reached a stage where my requirements were fulfilled I decided to make it a little pretty and share it with everyone else.

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Built With

• Go
• Go-Gin
• GORM
• SQLite

Installation

The easiest way to run Podgrab is to run it as a docker container.

Using Docker

Simple setup without mounted volumes (for testing and evaluation)

  docker run -d -p 8080:8080 --name=podgrab akhilrex/podgrab

Binding local volumes to the container

   docker run -d -p 8080:8080 --name=podgrab -v "/host/path/to/assets:/assets" -v "/host/path/to/config:/config"  akhilrex/podgrab

Using Docker-Compose

Modify the docker compose file provided here to update the volume and port binding and run the following command

version: "2.1"
services:
  podgrab:
    image: akhilrex/podgrab
    container_name: podgrab
    environment:
      - CHECK_FREQUENCY=240
     # - PASSWORD=password     ## Uncomment to enable basic authentication, username = podgrab
    volumes:
      - /path/to/config:/config
      - /path/to/data:/assets
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
    restart: unless-stopped

   docker-compose up -d

Environment Variables

Name	Description	Default
CHECK_FREQUENCY	How frequently to check for new episodes and missing files (in minutes)	30
PASSWORD	Set to some no empty value to enable Basic Authentication, username podgrab	(empty)

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

Roadmap

• Basic Authentication
• Append Date to filename
• iTunes Search
• Existing episodes detection (Will not redownload if files exist even with a fresh install)
• Rudimentary downloading/downloaded indicator
• Played/Unplayed Flag
• OPML import
• OPML export
• Set ID3 tags if not set
• Filtering and Sorting options
• In built podcast player

Contact

Akhil Gupta - @akhilrex

Project Link: https://github.com/akhilrex/podgrab