podcast-updater v0.3.0

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...

1. Install it:
   $ npm install podcast-updater
2. Require it into your JS file: var podcastUpdater = require('podcast-updater');
3. Pass the generatePodcastXml function 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.