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lightpohl / podcast-dl

A humble CLI for downloading and archiving podcasts.
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Only downloads last 100 episodes #55

Closed hemicyon closed 1 year ago

hemicyon commented 1 year ago

Using the RSS link with podcast-dl only downloads the last 100 episodes. All the episodes are available on the Overcast app, but every other podcast app only shows the last 100. This is an issue with SquareSpace, but I'm wondering if there's a workaround.

The link in question http://www.hellointernet.fm/podcast?format=rss

lightpohl commented 1 year ago

Hey there! I believe Overcast crawlers cache the RSS feed over time so it's able to access older episodes if they're still available. podcast-dl only knows about RSS items returned when it's run so it can't find those older episodes unfortunately.

You might be able to point a more flexible download script (like youtube-dl) at this libsyn page to grab them all in one go (or you can download the missing items manually!).

https://hellointernet.libsyn.com/page/1/size/200

mchill commented 1 year ago

I follow a couple of podcasts that do this as well. I ended up using the Wayback Machine. You can enter the url for your rss feed, find a version old enough to still have old episodes, and then get the raw cached file by inspecting the network requests in your browser.

This cached feed has all the old episodes you're looking for.