Features

• Self hostable
  • Single Tenant SQLite backend.
  • Run from a single docker image
• Privacy oriented
  • No data or usage collection
  • Proxy and cache podcast feeds to reduce your traffic to data collecting feed and media servers.
• Per episode artwork is supported
• Supports streaming audio files (e.g. seek to any part of a podcast)
• OPML Import & Export
  • Import your current subscriptions from another app
  • Export subscriptions to podsumer feeds for use in your mobile or other podcast app.
• Single file library (optional)
  • Easily move and migrate your library via a single SQLite DB file.
  • Avoid file permissions headches in docker
• Save media to disk (optional)
  • If you prefer to store audio and images on disk instead of in the database.
  • Faster backups for very large libraries.
• Automatic feed refresh
  • Original feeds checked for updates when proxied feeds are queried.
• Codebase contains zero 3rd-party dependencies.
• Content focused UI

Roadmap

For a look at upcoming enhancements checkout the enhancement tag under issues tab.

Usage

This project is useful for self-hosters who listen to podcasts. It allows you to listen to your podcasts via the web on your own infrastructure. You can also use the OPML export to subscribe to Podsumer's mirror of the original feeds. This improves privacy as download and listening metrics will not be tied to your phone or personal computer. Using something like gluetun you can have all the traffic to podcast servers go through a VPN as well, further shrinking your digital footprint.

Installing with Docker Compose

The docker image is based on the official PHP Debian Bookworm with Apache image.

  podsumer:
    image: ghcr.io/joshwbrick/podsumer:v0.9.4
    container_name: podsumer
    volumes:
        /path/to/dir/for/db:/opt/podsumer/store
        /path/to/config/podsumer.conf:/opt/podsumer/conf/podsumer.conf
    ports:
      - 3094:3094

Requirements

• PHP 8.2+ w/ extensions:
  • simplexml
  • curl
  • finfo
  • PDO
• Composer
• SQLite 3.6.19+
  • Foreign key support is required.

Screenshots

Home Page / Feed List

Episode List

Player Page