podcast-dl-gael

A simple script to download videos/podcasts from YouTube or RSS feeds.

Behind the scene it uses yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp), deno(https://deno.com/) and Python's feedparser.

Connect the home interface to download files to the home directory (optional)

sudo snap connect podcast-dl-gael:home

YouTube videos (or any other services supported by yt-dlp)

• 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

RSS feeds

• 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

Scheduled downloads

• By default, new files are downloaded here everyday at 6am

ls -lh /var/snap/podcast-dl-gael/common/podcast-dl/podcasts/

Manually scheduling or downloading files

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.

Skip YouTube videos

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

Skip RSS feeds

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/

Revisions

2026-09-28

• New build to resolve CVE-2026-25645/USN-8825-1

2026-09-27

• New build to resolve USN-8820-1

2026-09-23

• New build to resolve CVE-2026-74860/CVE-2026-86140/USN-8787-1
• Deno has been updated to v2.9.7

2026-09-12

• New build to resolve USN-8699-1/USN-8724-1
• Deno has been updated to v2.9.6

2026-08-26

• New build to resolve CVE-2026-8932/USN-8670-1

2026-08-22

• New build to resolve CVE-2026-11856/USN-8651-1/USN-8543-2
• Deno has been updated to v2.9.5

2026-07-25

• New build to resolve CVE-2026-15146/USN-8572-1
• Deno has been updated to v2.9.4

2026-07-16

• New build to resolve USN-8538-1/USN-8543-1/USN-8549-1
• Deno has been updated to v2.9.3

2026-07-11

• New build to resolve USN-8525-1
• Deno has been updated to v2.9.2

2026-07-03

• New build to resolve CVE-2026-58055/USN-8495-1/USN-8487-1
• Deno has been updated to v2.9.1

2025-11-19

• Updated to v3.5
• Changed install and upgrade logic
• yt-dlp v2025.11.12
• Now includes deno (https://deno.com/) for reliable YouTube downloads
• Deno is NOT available on armhf

2024-12-07

• Properly convert restricted UNIX and Windows characters in filenames with their unicode equivalents
• It will also help on Android when the exposed filesystem is FAT-like
• Update default yt-dlp to the latest version

2024-11-06

• podcast-dl-gael will now use core24 as most users are on Ubuntu 24.04

2024-10-05

• Add a fake user agent to workaround annoying podcast hosting sites (I'm looking at you podcastics.com)