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) 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

2025-08-21

• New build to resolve CVE-2025-6021/CVE-2025-6170/CVE-2025-49794/CVE-2025-49796/USN-7694-1

2025-07-23

• New build to resolve CVE-2025-6199/CVE-2025-7345/USN-7662-1

2025-07-17

• New build to resolve CVE-2023-0645/CVE-2023-35790/CVE-2024-11403/CVE-2024-11498/USN-7637-1

2025-07-08

• New build to resolve CVE-2025-4877/CVE-2025-4878/CVE-2025-5318/CVE-2025-5449/USN-7619-1

2025-06-27

• New build to resolve CVE-2025-50181/CVE-2025-50182/USN-7599-1

2025-06-20

• Ship yt-dlp instead of downloading it from GitHub (this will prevent some weird corrupted installs)
• New build to resolve CVE-2023-32681/CVE-2024-47081/USN-7568-1

2025-04-30

• Improve python code
• Stop creating target directories when there is nothing to download
• New build to resolve CVE-2025-32414/CVE-2025-32415/USN-7467-1

2025-03-12

• New build to resolve CVE-2024-11053/CVE-2024-56826/CVE-2024-56827/CVE-2024-34459/CVE-2022-49043/CVE-2024-50612/CVE-2025-24928/CVE-2025-27113/CVE-2024-34459/CVE-2024-56171/USN-7162-1/USN-7223-1/USN-7240-1/USN-7267-2/USN-7302-1

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)