YouTube2podcast.R

Convert YouTube channels and playlists to MP3 podcasts using yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.

• As result video channel will be converted to the folder with MP3 files, thumbnails and descriptions per each video.
• "rss.xml" files per each folder(channel) will be generated in the next step.
• "rss.opml" for all folders(channels) will be produced at the end.

Usage:

Rscript --vanilla youtube2podcast.R [<path>/config.ini]

I recommend:

• place "youtube2podcast.R" to your "~/bin" folder
• add line like this to your cron (with command "crontab -u USER -e"):

07 04 * * * Rscript --vanilla /home/<user>/bin/youtube2podcast.R <path>/config.ini

If you prefere Docker image(~500MB):

docker pull ghcr.io/zajakin/youtube2podcast.r && docker run --rm -v <path>/podcasts:/podcasts ghcr.io/zajakin/youtube2podcast.r

cron:

07 04 * * * docker pull ghcr.io/zajakin/youtube2podcast.r && docker run --rm -v <path>/podcasts:/podcasts ghcr.io/zajakin/youtube2podcast.r