Podcast Archive

A tool for downloading all episodes of a particular podcast.

Features

1. Downloads episodes in a neat Show name > year > month directory format format.
2. Will automatically skip files that have already been downloaded (unless they've since been updated)
3. Ability to specify a date range, if you only want to download some episodes.
4. Downloaded files will have the creation date filesystem attribute set to match the episode's original publish date and time.

-u, --url Required. The URL of the podcast RSS feed. (Required)

-s, --start Start date. yyyy-MM-dd Only download episodes on or after this date.

-e, --end End date. yyyy-MM-dd Only download episodes on or before this date.

Download instructions

Either build from source using .NET 6, or download one of the prebuilt applications in the Downloads directory. On Mac and Linux, you'll need to first make the file executable by running the command chmod u+x PodcastArchive. You can then run the application by typing ./PodcastArchive followed the commands above.

Example usage

Download all episodes ./PodcastArchive --url "https://geeknewscentral.com/podcast.xml"

Download all episodes in March 2020 ./PodcastArchive -u "https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/61850ae845b6e300132557e2" -s 2020-03-01 -e 2020-03-31

Download all episodes since 20th May 2022 ./PodcastArchive --url "https://geeknewscentral.com/podcast.xml" --start 2022-05-20

Download all episodes before 1st December 2012 ./PodcastArchive --url "https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/b00lvdrj.rss" --end 2012-12-01