Generic podcast RSS feed support

[peterk]

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• Playlist: https://www.spreaker.com/show/2581878/episodes/feed
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Support for generic podcast RSS feeds would be very useful in Youtube-dl. It would enable archiving of podcasts together with youtube channel clips in an easy way. Structured data in RSS feeds can be treated as a playlist and would make it easy to repeat RSS feed requests on a regular interval using Youtube-dl config files and output patterns. Outputting metadata together with the MP3 file would make files easier to find.

I have added a couple of generic podcast RSS-channels above.

[dstftw]

Have you even tried before requesting existing feature?

[peterk]

Sorry for being too vague. Yes, I tried. Using the URL:s above with the following parameters

youtube-dl -i --write-description --write-thumbnail --write-info-json -o "%(upload_date)s_%(title)s_[%(id)s].%(ext)s" <RSS url>

1. No id parsed form <guid> - For spreaker RSS it is set to a part of the URL like ”23315458episode_id=15191837&response-content-disposition=attachment;filename='tsc_189”
2. Publication date not parsed from <pubDate>
3. Thumbnail not recognized from <itunes:image> or <googleplay:image>
4. Description text not recognized from <itunes:summary>, <itunes:subtitle> (Acast RSS), <description> or <content:encoded> (Libsyn RSS)

So I concluded there was no specific support for podcast RSS feeds, only the "Falling back on generic information extractor.".

[rudolphos]

@peterk
I have similar problem, seems that it's not resolved.

Running a link from libsyn podcast page like this youtube-dl http://podcast.libsyn.com is causing warning "Falling back on generic information extractor."

Also it only downloads the latest podcast, not all podcasts. If I need to download all the only option seems to be 100+ links manually of every RSS entry.

Now it gets only .mp3 links (if you run /rss link) which causes it to switch to generic rss extractor.

If youtube-dl could extract all first from /rss page it would work correctly I think.

[bas080]

It would be nice to have youtube-dl be able to handle podcast feeds better. It makes no sense to support very specific providers well and not support a common format well.