genRSS

genRSS is a tool to create an RSS 2.0 feed from media files in a directory. Files can be looked for recursively in subdirectories and can be restricted to a given set of extensions.

Installation

Another package named genrss already exists on pypi, we use generss (with an e after the n) for installation:

pip install generss

Once installed, you can use genRSS on the command line.

Determining file duration

To include media file duration in your feeds (using the <itunes:duration> tag), genRSS use tries the following options.

• mutagen: a python package installed alongside genRSS that can deal with audio and video files.
• sox: can only handle audio files, runs faster than ffprobe.
• ffprobe: normally installed with ffmpeg, can deal with audio and video files but it is the slowest of the three options.

In any case, if genRSS fails to get media file duration with one tool, it'll fall back to the next one. If none of these tools is installed or if file duration cannot be obtained, no <itunes:duration> tag will be inserted.

Usage options

Type genRSS -h to show the usage options:

  -d DIRECTORY, --dirname DIRECTORY
                        Directory to look for media files in.
                        This directory name will be appended to the host name
                        to create absolute paths to your media files.
  -r, --recursive       Look for media files recursively in subdirectories
                        [Default:False]
  -e STRING, --extensions STRING
                        A comma separated list of extensions (e.g. mp3,mp4,avi,ogg)
                        [Default: all files]
  -o FILE, --out FILE   Output RSS file [default: stdout]
  -H URL, --host URL    Host name (or IP address), possibly with a protocol
                        (default: http) a port number and the path to the base
                        directory where your media directory is located.
                        Examples of host names:
                         - http://localhost:8080 [default]
                         - mywebsite.com/media/JapaneseLessons
                         - mywebsite
                         - 192.168.1.12:8080
                         - http://192.168.1.12/media/JapaneseLessons
  -i URL, --image URL   Absolute or relative URL for feed's image [default: None]
  -M, --metadata        Use media files' metadata to extract item title [default: False]
  -t STRING, --title STRING
                        Title of the podcast [Default: use directory name as title]
  -p STRING, --description STRING
                        Description of the podcast [Default:None]
  -C, --sort-creation   Sort files by date of creation instead of name (default)
  -v, --verbose         set verbose [default: False]

License

MIT