podfeed is a python3 package that will read an RSS feed for a podcast and provide episode-level utilties for download or playlist creation.
$ pip install podfeed
from podfeed import parseFeed
# Collect episodes published after May 1st, 2018
episodes = parseFeed("https://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510289", 1525132800)
# Write each episode to a file
for episode in episodes:
episode.writeFile("./{0}_{1}.{2}".format(
episode.getTitle(), episode.getDate(), episode.getExt()))podfeed uses the built-in python logging module, using loggers with the top-level name podfeed.