Get your starred podcasts episodes from Pocket Casts

What?

TL;DR

I listen to podcacsts in Pocket Casts. I want to get my starred episodes and share what i listen to on my website. Work in progress.

• Use Puppeteer - Headless Chrome Node API to get your starred podcast epiodes from Pocket Cast
• Get podcast title, podcast, date, image status (played/not played)
• Get results as JSON or YAML

Setup

npm install

Copy .env-example to .env and add your credentials

cp .env-example .env

Save Markdown files?

Set this flag to true

SAVE_MARKDOWN_FILES=true

and for the folder, specify:

SAVE_MARKDOWN_FILES_FOLDER="/my/path"

Run

node index.js

Results when saving JSON

[ { name: 'Remembering Roy Hargrove, Who Brought Jazz History Into Tomorrow',
    podcast: 'Popcast',
    image: 'https://static2.pocketcasts.com/discover/images/webp/200/24f9a050-1b0c-012e-006e-00163e1b201c.webp',
    date: 'November 9',
    played: true },
  { name: '128 – Näääk/Matar Samba Del 2 av 2',
    podcast: 'Gatuslang',
    image: 'https://static2.pocketcasts.com/discover/images/webp/200/6cbdbba0-e7c3-012f-9714-723c91aeae46.webp',
    date: 'November 3',
    played: false },
  { name: '38: Cameras, phones & camera phones, with MKBHD',
    podcast: 'The Stalman Podcast',
    image: 'https://static2.pocketcasts.com/discover/images/webp/200/eeca35d0-b2bc-0135-9e5e-5bb073f92b78.webp',
    date: 'November 10',
    played: false },
    ...

Results when saving Markdown files

✅ Saved ./podcasts/remembering-roy-hargrove,-who-brought-jazz-history-into-tomorrow.md !
✅ Saved ./podcasts/38-cameras,-phones-and-camera-phones,-with-mkbhd.md !
✅ Saved ./podcasts/titiyo-hemma-hos-strage.md !
✅ Saved ./podcasts/rick-rubin.md !
✅ Saved ./podcasts/gora-det-omojliga-annika-norlin.md !
✅ Saved ./podcasts/avsnitt-90-helle-klein.md !
✅ Saved ./podcasts/73-skrek-benjamin-ingrosso-fardig-fran-toaletten-anda-upp-i-tonaren?.md !
✅ Saved ./podcasts/johan-kinde-hemma-hos-strage.md !

Todo

• Login
• Get starred podcasts
• Save as YML
• Save as Markdown
• Specify env variable for chosing output folder

Author

Urban Sandén. I'm @urre on Twitter.

License

MIT 2018 Urban Sandén