pod-store 0.0.5

Podcast tracking client that allows syncing across devices using `git`. Inspired by the `pass` password manager.

pod-store

pod-store is an encrypted CLI podcast tracker that syncs across devices using git. Inspired by pass, "the standard unix password manager."

The state of your podcasts and episodes is tracked in a JSON-structured store file. git is used to share that store file between devices. GPG keys encrypt the store file for security.

Synchronization and encryption features are optional. pod-store can be used as an unecrypted CLI podcast tracker for a single device.

This is a very young/alpha-stage project. Use at your own risk, of course.

Requirements

Written for Linux environments running Python 3.7 and above. May work on MacOS but probably does not work on Windows. Apart from Python library requirements, pod-store requires git (for syncing across devices) and gpg (for encryption).

Why?

When I was looking for CLI podcast trackers I did not love any of the options I found. pass has been my password manager for a while now, and the concept of a pass-like interface for podcast tracking appealed to me.

In particular, I like that pass:

• Mimics core utilities commands in name and (some) parameters where sensible (ls, rm, etc)
• Handles syncing across devices with a standard version control system (git)
• Provides security using a basic public/private key encryption standard (gpg)

There are other things about the pass philosophy that I obviously ignore in this project. In particular, I do not aspire for pod-store to be "the standard unix" anything. That frees me from having to write it in shell script.

Installation

Install the current release version using pip:

pip install pod-store

Or install the cutting edge directly from the repo using pip:

pip install git+https://github.com/psbleep/pod-store.git

I recommend you install this in a Python virtual environment.

Usage

pod-store tracks your podcast data in a JSON file (which I will refer to as "the store"). To get started, set up your store. If you have already have a remote git repo you want to sync your podcasts with, you can provide that directly during set up. Currently only SSH authentication is supported. For encrypting the store, pass in the GPG ID from your keychain that you want to use:

pod init --git-url [e-mail]:foobar/pods.git --gpg-id [e-mail]

Leave off the git-url option and you can set up your remote git path manually. Leave off the gpg-id option and your store will not be encrypted.

You can avoid setting up git with your store at all using the --no-git flag:

pod init --no-git

Once your store is set up you will want to add a podcast to it. Supply the name you want to use in the store for this podcast, and the RSS feed URL for the podcast episodes:

pod add podcast-name https://pod.cast/episodes/rss

You can list which podcasts in your store have new episodes, or list all podcasts in your store:

pod ls
pod ls --all

Get more detail with any ls command by adding the --verbose flag:

pod ls --verbose --all

List new episodes, list all episodes, list new episodes for a specific podcast:

pod ls --episodes
pod ls --all --episodes
pod ls -p podcast-name

Refresh episode data for all podcasts from their RSS feeds, or just a specific podcast:

pod refresh
pod refresh -p podcast-name

Download all new episodes, or new episodes for just a specific podcast:

pod download
pod download -p podcast-name

By default podcast episodes will be downloaded to e.g. /home/<username>/Podcasts/<podcast-name>/<001-episode-title>.mp3. See the configuration section for how to adjust the download path.

Sometimes you may want to mark an episode as being not-new without actually downloading it. Do that using the mark command. By default you will interactively choose which episodes to mark, or you can bulk-mark all episodes. Either of these strategies can be applied to all new episodes, or just the episodes of a specific podcast:

pod mark-as-old
pod mark-as-old --bulk

pod mark-as-old -p podcast-name
pod mark-as-old --bulk -p podcast-name

Rename a podcast in the store:

pod mv old-name new-name

Remove a podcast from the store:

pod rm podcast-name

Run an arbitrary git command within the pod-store repo:

pod git push

Encrypt a store with keys from your GPG keyring:

pod encrypt-store <gpg-id>

This command works either to encrypt a previously-unencrypted store, or to switch which GPG keys are used to encrypt the store.

Unencrypt a store that is set up as encrypted:

pod unencrypt-store

Podcasts and episodes can be marked with tags:

pod tag podcast-name tag-name
pod tag podcast-name tag-name --episode episode-id

Note that to reference an episode to tag you will need the episode ID. You can get that using the ls --verbose --episodes command.

Podcasts and episodes can be untagged with a similar command:

pod untag podcast-name tag-name
pod untag podcast-name tag-name --episode episode-id

Episodes can be tagged in groups:

pod tag-episodes tag-name

By default you will be prompted to select which episodes to apply the tag too, but you can bulk aply the tag to every episode in the group without being prompted:

pod tag-episodes tag-name --bulk

Either mode can be restricted to episodes for a single podcast:

pod tag-episodes -p podcast-name tag-name

A similar command allows untagging episodes in groups:

pod untag-episodes tag-name
pod untag-episodes tag-name --bulk
pod untag-episodes -p podcast-name tag-name

Configuration

pod-store allows the user to override some default behavior by setting env vars:

POD_STORE_PATH  # defaults to /home/<username>/.pod-store
POD_STORE_FILE_NAME  # defaults to "pod-store.json"
POD_STORE_PODCASTS_DOWNLOAD_PATH  # defaults to /home/<username>/Podcasts
POD_STORE_GPG_ID_FILE  # defaults to <POD_STORE_PATH>/.gpg-id

The default GPG ID file is automatically included in the git repo's .gitignore file. If you want to track it for some reason you can remove the entry from the .gitignore file (or remove the .gitignore file entirely).

Contributing

Feel free to file issues on Github or open pull requests. Since this is a personal project I do in my spare time I am not going to work much on stuff that doesn't interest me, but I am open to any bug reports/feature requests/contributions offered in a friendly spirit.

To work on the code:

• Fork this repo on Github
• Clone your copy of the repo
• pip install -r requirements.txt into your development environment
• Make a branch for your changes. If it is targetted at an existing Github issue, name the branch in the style 012-change-these-things, where 012 is the zero-padded three digit Github issue number and change-these-things is a short description of what you are working on.
• When you are finished, open a PR from your fork and branch into the main branch on this repo.

Write tests for your changes!

The CLI is built using the Click library, so some familiarity with that library will help in understanding/contributing to the code.

This project uses black for code formatting/linting, and https://pycqa.github.io/isort/ for import linting. PEP-8 is generally followed, with the exception of an 88 character line limit rather than 79 characters (which is in line with the default behavior for black).

Tests are run using pytest and run against multiple Python versions using tox.

Code will not be accepted that doesn't pass the test suite or the code style checks. You can run the linters and tests yourself locally before opening the PR. These commands should do it (run from the root directory of the git repo):

black .
isort .
pytest