Podevcast, is a static site generated using a script. There is a static site generation which is heavily done in Python and deployed to Netlify. You can simply listen to the podcasts in the web page or go to the canonical page of the podcast episode. From the canonical page you can choose to hop to your choice music player, but the default music player should be fine for casual listening. The core idea is to keep things a single place for developer podcast.
Let's see a live demonstration of the application.
Podevcast has multiple pages like:
The Home page has the latest episode of all the podcasts. It also has the audio player to play on the go.
The Podcast List page has the list of all the Podcast available in the project. It has the name of the podcast with the link to the podcast page that has the list of all the episodes of that podcast.
The categories page has the list of categories of the podcasts like Web-development, backend, frontend, data science, DevOps and so on. More categories will be added soon.
The Episode page has the audio player, the summary of the episode, canonical episode and podcast page.
Listening to music is one thing and listening to Podcast is different. I wanted a place from where developers can listen to developer specific podcast from a dingle source not just give out the article "Top 10 podcast you should be listening as a developer". So, it is for developers finding a place to listen to their favorite podcasts in a single place.
- Python
- GitHub Actions
- HTML / CSS
The data is extracted from various RSS Feeds using the feedparser library in Python.
Using GitHub Actions, the feed is refreshed every 24 hours to fetch the latest episodes from the respective podcast feeds. Basically the GitHub action triggers a Netlify deployment that in turn generates the static site by running the script.
The command for running the script on Netlify and generating the Podevcast webpage is :
pip install -r rquirements.txt && python script.py
And the directory for deployed web pages (published directory) is site which contains all the HTML files that can be rendered as the website itself.
There is also a django app for the same project, but not deployed. It is still in development, and it is just developed for understanding and learning some concepts in django. The webapp folder holds the django project and is independent of the python static site application.
Any Podcast you think should be added please do create a PR and add the RSS feed URL for the same podcast in the podlist JSON file, or even giving a suggestion by raising a issue will be suffice.