A simple script to download videos/podcasts from YouTube or RSS feeds.
Behind the scene it uses yt-dlp and Python's feedparser.
sudo snap connect podcast-dl-gael:home
- List your YouTube video or playlist URLs here (one URL per line)
sudo vi /var/snap/podcast-dl-gael/common/podcast-dl/youtube-dl.conf.d/youtube-dl.url
# Jay Swanson
https://www.youtube.com/user/Cadelfwch/videos
# SmarterEveryDay
https://www.youtube.com/user/destinws2/videos
- Configure yt-dlp here
sudo vi /var/snap/podcast-dl-gael/common/podcast-dl/youtube-dl.conf.d/youtube-dl.conf
- List your RSS feeds here (one RSS feed per line)
sudo vi /var/snap/podcast-dl-gael/common/podcast-dl/rss-dl.conf.d/rss-dl.url
# Format: URL [DIRECTORY]
# The optional DIRECTORY allows you to the save your files in a specific directory
# Late Night Linux - All Episodes Feed
https://latenightlinux.com/feeds/ /root/storage/podcasts/LateNightLinux
- By default, new files are downloaded here everyday at 6am
ls -lh /var/snap/podcast-dl-gael/common/podcast-dl/podcasts/
To download files at a different time, use a systemd timer (or equivalent) to run this command
sudo podcast-dl-gael.download-now
This command can also be run from the command line to download files manually.
To mark videos as already downloaded, run the youtube-dl-skip-download command. Depending on the number of videos, this could take a long time.
If you don't want to watch (again) the 1300+ first vlogs of Jay Swanson but would like to download the future ones, run this command
sudo podcast-dl-gael.youtube-dl-skip-download https://www.youtube.com/user/Cadelfwch/videos
To mark RSS feeds as already downloaded, run the rss-skip-download command.
If you don't want to listen (again) to all the Late Night Linux shows but would like to download the future ones, run this command
sudo podcast-dl-gael.rss-skip-download https://latenightlinux.com/feeds/
2024-09-21
- Bundle ffmpeg, it was previously dropped by mistake
- Fix defaults for yt-dlp
- Fix logic
2024-09-17
- New build to resolve CVE-2024-8096/USN-7012-1
2024-08-06
- New build to resolve CVE-2024-7264/USN-6944-1
2024-05-22
- New build to resolve CVE-2024-3651/USN-6780-1
2024-04-26
- New build to resolve CVE-2024-28182/USN-6754-1
2024-03-28
- New build to resolve CVE-2024-2398/USN-6718-1
2024-01-31
- New build to resolve CVE-2023-2953/USN-6616-1
2023-10-12
- New build to resolve CVE-2023-38545/CVE-2023-38546/USN-6429-1
2023-10-07
- Back to stable releases of yt-dlp
2023-09-06
- v3.0 available on amd64, arm64 & armhf
- yt-dlp updated to nightly to workaround Unable to extract initial state
- New commands (youtube-dl-skip-download & rss-skip-download) to skip videos or RSS feeds
- Manual scheduling of downloads using the download-now command
2023-08-16
- New build to resolve CVE-2022-48281/CVE-2023-2908/CVE-2023-3316/CVE-2023-3618/CVE-2023-25433/CVE-2023-26965/CVE-2023-26966/CVE-2023-38288/CVE-2023-38289/USN-6290-1
2023-08-02
- New build to resolve CVE-2023-38633/USN-6266-1
2023-07-20
- New build to resolve CVE-2023-28321/CVE-2023-28322/CVE-2023-32001/USN-6237-1
2023-07-06
- yt-dlp updated to v2023.07.06
- Fixes CVE-2023-35934
2023-06-21
- yt-dlp updated to v2023.06.21
2023-06-16
- New build to resolve CVE-2023-3138/USN-6168-1
2023-06-06
- New build to resolve CVE-2023-1667/CVE-2023-2283/USN-6138-1
- yt-dlp updated to v2023.03.04
2023-05-17
- New build to resolve CVE-2023-1999/USN-6078-1
2023-05-10
- New build to resolve CVE-2023-2004/USN-6062-1
2023-04-20
- New build to resolve CVE-2023-29469/CVE-2023-28484/USN-6028-1
2023-03-21
- New build to resolve CVE-2023-27533/CVE-2023-27534/CVE-2023-27535/CVE-2023-27536/CVE-2023-27538/USN-5964-1
2023-03-07
- New build to resolve CVE-2023-0802/CVE-2023-0796/CVE-2023-0803/CVE-2023-0799/CVE-2023-0800/CVE-2023-0801/CVE-2023-0798/CVE-2023-0795/CVE-2023-0797/CVE-2023-0804/USN-5923-1
2023-02-28
- New build to resolve CVE-2023-23914/CVE-2023-23915/CVE-2023-23916/USN-5891-1
- FFmpeg has been provided to allow transcoding
2023-02-23
- Moving away from youtube-dl to yt-dlp following ytdl-org/youtube-dl#31530
- FFmpeg is not provided yet
- This may break your config, ajust /var/snap/podcast-dl-gael/common/podcast-dl/youtube-dl.conf.d/youtube-dl.conf accordingly
2023-02-09
- New build to resolve CVE-2022-45142/USN-5849-1
2023-01-13
- New build to resolve CVE-2021-44758/CVE-2022-3437/CVE-2022-42898/CVE-2022-44640/USN-5800-1
2023-01-06
- New build to resolve CVE-2022-43552/USN-5788-1
2022-12-08
- New build to resolve CVE-2022-41916/USN-5766-1
2022-10-27
- New build to resolve CVE-2022-32221/USN-5702-1
2022-10-14
- New build to resolve CVE-2021-3671/CVE-2022-3116/USN-5675-1
2022-09-02
- New build to resolve CVE-2022-35252/USN-5587-1
2022-06-28
- New build to resolve CVE-2022-32205/CVE-2022-32206/CVE-2022-32207/CVE-2022-32208/USN-5495-1
2022-05-18
- New build to resolve CVE-2022-29155/USN-5424-1
2022-05-12
- New build to resolve CVE-2022-27780/CVE-2022-27781/CVE-2022-27782/USN-5412-1
2022-04-29
- New build to resolve CVE-2022-22576/CVE-2022-27774/CVE-2022-27775/CVE-2022-27776/USN-5397-1
2022-04-01
- v2.0 available on amd64, arm64 & armhf
- Switched to Python's feedparser for reliability
2022-02-23
- New build to resolve CVE-2022-24407/USN-5301-1
2021-09-16
- New build to resolve CVE-2021-22947/CVE-2021-22945/CVE-2021-22946/USN-5079-1
2021-08-27
- New build to resolve CVE-2021-3634/USN-5053-1
2021-07-23
- New build to resolve CVE-2021-22898/CVE-2021-22924/CVE-2021-22925/USN-5021-1
2021-04-14
- New build to resolve CVE-2021-20305/USN-4906-1
2021-04-01
- New build to resolve CVE-2021-22876/CVE-2021-22890/USN-4898-1
2021-03-26
- New build to resolve CVE-2021-3449/USN-4891-1
2021-03-20
- Initial release