yttopodcast/README.md

yttopodcast

Tools to convert YouTube video feeds to standard Podcast RSS feeds. A workaround is done, bouncer, to serve files from youtube directly, rather than storing the audio files and serving them independantly.

A web server is required to serve the RSS feed as a file, and an HTTP boucner server is used to fetch valid links from yt. Since getting the content URLs is quite slow, the implemented bouncer has a basic cache.

genfeed

Generate a feed given a channel id

cd cmd/genfeed
go build .
./genfeed -id CHANNEL_ID > feed.xml

ytbouncer

The bouncer uses standard go http and can be embedded

cd cmd/ytbouncer
go build .
./ytbouncer

starts a server.

Note: the url resolution is quite slow and heavy computaionally, due to yt-dlp backend. It can be used as a DoS without the use of rate limiting or other measures.