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# PodCatch - a simple Podcast downloader
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PodCatch is a _very_ simple Podcast downloader written in GoLand built to help me download podcasts
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and store them in my media directory so [Jellyfin](https://jellyfin.org/) can
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index them and thus can be listened to using Jellyfin's various apps.
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Due to how PodCatch is configurable, I'm sure it would have other uses too.
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### Why PodCatch over other podcast downloaders?
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I tried a few other podcast downloaders and largely they were fine, in fact
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PodCatch definitely borrows some nice ideas from other podcast downloaders. My
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personal issue with the others is that the filename they download as is not always
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"friendly"; that is to say, if there's no ID3 data containing the podcast title,
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trying to organise a list of podcasts with a _GUID_.mp3 filename in Jellyfin is not easy.
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To tackle this issue, PodCatch looks up the title of the Podcast from its RSS feed,
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strips it of invalid characters, and uses that name as the file name. This allows for a
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much easier task when organising podcasts.
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### Install
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Very simple install:
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```git clone this repo
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cd podcatch
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go build -o podcatch-bin
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