support for anchor.fm

[shirishag75]

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Have been unsuccessful in downloading anchor.fm podcasts :( The episodes are 40-45 minutes long but I am only able to download the first minute or so :(

$ ./youtube-dl --verbose -F "https://anchor.fm/meredith-mikell/episodes/Episode-1-Welcome-e2innt/a-a6dmtt"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'-F', u'https://anchor.fm/meredith-mikell/episodes/Episode-1-Welcome-e2innt/a-a6dmtt']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.01.17
[debug] Python version 2.7.15+ (CPython) - Linux-4.19.0-1-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-buster-sid
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1-1, ffprobe 4.1-1, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] a-a6dmtt: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] a-a6dmtt: Downloading webpage
[generic] a-a6dmtt: Extracting information
[download] Downloading playlist: Episode 1: Welcome! by The Space Between: Science Fiction to Science Future • A podcast on Anchor
[generic] playlist Episode 1: Welcome! by The Space Between: Science Fiction to Science Future • A podcast on Anchor: Collected 1 video ids (downloading 1 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 1
[info] Available formats for a-a6dmtt:
format code  extension  resolution note
0            m4a        audio only 
[download] Finished downloading playlist: Episode 1: Welcome! by The Space Between: Science Fiction to Science Future • A podcast on Anchor

[brianreeve]

This appears to still be an issue in 2019.02.08.

I don't see any duplicate issues. Can this issue reopened as still valid?

[ivan]

fwiw: https://gist.github.com/ivan/411e75128eb22f4a278a87f98a58ef74 might be useful as an implementation outline (I found that one must concatenate m4a files.)

[yoshimo]

Anchor.fm splits podcasts into multiple files that would need to be concancenated and given chapter marks and other meta data.

They are marked with caption, duration , url , audiotype and timestamps in the sites source.
Depending on your personal choice filtering by audiotype and/or caption before joining files might be a good option to add here. Repeated stuff like intros or outros can annoy after a while.

Also the filename should be adjusted based on the name of the episode and the show, right now it is just a set of random numbers.

Right now we only download the intro chapter and stop, this issue is valid.
@shirishag75 would you mind re-opening it?

[yoshimo]

@ivan some Episodes in a few podcasts also get offered in mp3, so you need to keep in mind that the file format might vary

[ohhai]

I see anchor.fm provides rss (sometimes?) and there is direct media link inside. So might be related here: #16912