Poca

Poca is a fast, multithreaded and highly customizable command line podcast client, written in Python 3.

Features

Maximum amount. Specify how many episodes the subscription should get before deleting old episodes to make room for new ones.
Override ID3/MP4/Vorbis metadata. If you want Savage Love to have Dan Savage in the artist field (rather than The Stranger), poca will automatically update the metadata upon download of each new episode. Or set genre to be overwritten by Podcast as a default.
Filter a feed. Only want news reports in the morning or on Wednesdays? Use criteria such as filename and title, or the hour, weekday or date of publishing to filter what you want from a feed.
Rename files automatically. Not all feeds have sensibly named media files. Specify a renaming template like date_title to know what you're dealing with or to get alphabetical ordering to match chronology.
From the top. A latecomer to Serial or other audiobook style podcasts? Specify from_the_top to get oldest episodes first, rather than the latest. To move on to later episodes simply delete old ones and poca will fill up with the next in line.
Keeping track. Poca logs downloads and removals to a local file so you easily see what's changed. Or configure it with an SMTP server and get notified when a feed stops working.
Manage your shows by editing an easy-to-understand xml file. Or use the accompanying tool to add, delete, sort them, or get info about their publishing frequency, average episode length and more.

Poca also: has excellent unicode support for feeds, filenames and tags, gets cover images for feeds, has the ability to spoof user agents, can pause your subscriptions, deals intelligently with interruptions, updates moved feeds (HTTP 301) automatically, and more.

Interface

All configuration is done in a single XML-format file. For cron job compatibility, Poca has a quiet mode in addition to normal and verbose.

Installation

You can install poca from pypi using pip.

pip3 install poca

If you are upgrading from any pre-1.0 release, please see this upgrade notice. To remove Poca simply do:

pip3 uninstall poca

Requirements

Python 3.6 or later
Third-party modules: requests feedparser lxml mutagen
Pip will automatically install any one of these found missing
A unicode capable terminal is recommended but not required
Due to dependencies of third-party modules (lxml requires libxml2 v. 2.9.2 and libxslt 1.1.27) distros no older than Ubuntu 18.04 are recommended.
For use on WSL, the "-g wsl" flag is recommended as it will substitute out characters known not to work on WSL (see https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/75)

Quickstart

[ ~ ] poca
No config file found. Making one at /home/user/.poca/poca.xml.
Please enter the full path for placing media files.
Press Enter to use default (/home/user/poca): /tmp/poca
 ⚠ Default config succesfully written to /home/user/.poca/poca.xml.
Please edit or run 'poca-subscribe' to add subscriptions.

[ ~ ] poca-subscribe add
Url of subscription: http://crateandcrowbar.com/feed/

Author: The Crate and Crowbar                            PUBLISHED / 5 WEEKS
Title:  The Crate and Crowbar

Last episode: Episode 216: Videocrates Crowdog                       ▮
Published:    24 Nov 2017                                            ▮
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Avg. size of episode:   52 Mb                            ▮  ▮     ▮  ▮  ▮  ▮
Avg. length of episode: 1h 52m                           M  T  W  T  F  S  S

Title of subscription: (Enter to use feed title)
Maximum number of files in subscription: (integer/Enter to skip) 5
Get earliest entries first: (yes/no/Enter to skip) no
Category for subscription (Enter to skip): gaming
To add metadata, rename or filters settings, please edit poca.xml

[ ~ ] poca --verbose
THE CRATE AND CROWBAR. 5 ➕
 ⇵ CCEp214.mp3  [56 Mb]
 ⇵ LGCEp004.mp3  [35 Mb]
 ⇵ CCEp215.mp3  [61 Mb]
 ...

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