PODBEUTER(1)

📦 version 2.9, in fedora 43

👑 PODBEUTER — the podcatcher's bestie 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to podbeuter, section 1 of the manual, and no cap this little icon is a podcast download manage for text terminals 💅 (yes the manual really says "manage" and honestly? she's serving cunt, we're keeping her exactly as she is, periodt).

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

podbeuter [-C configfile] [-q queuefile] [-a] [-h]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so podbeuter is a podcast manager for text terminals, fr fr. she's a helper program to newsbeuter, and what she does is queue podcast downloads into a file 📥. then those queued downloads can be download with newsbeuter. that's the whole vibe. that's the whole job. she queues, newsbeuter downloads. they're a duo, they're giving main character energy together 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h — display help. she's telling you what's up 💬
  • -C configfile — use an alternative configuration file 🗂️
  • -q queuefile — use an alternative queue file 📋
  • -a — start automatic download of all queued files on startup 🔥 no waiting, she just GOES

🦋 PODCAST SUPPORT 🦋

okay so a podcast is a media file distributed over the internet using syndication feeds such as RSS, for later playback on portable players or computers. and newsbeuter contains support for downloading and saving podcasts 💖 — but this support differs a bit from other podcast aggregators or "podcatchers" in how it is done. she's just built different, iykyk ✨

Podcast content is transported in RSS feeds via special tags called "enclosures". newsbeuter recognizes these enclosures and stores the relevant information for every podcast item it finds in an RSS feed. Since version 2.0, it also recognizes and handles the Yahoo Media RSS extensions — she leveled up 🌈. What the user then can do is to add the podcast download URL to a download queue. Alternatively, newsbeuter can be configured to automatically do that. This queue is stored in the file $HOME/.newsbeuter/queue 🗃️

The user can then use the download manager "podbeuter" to download these files to a directory on the local filesystem 📁. Podbeuter comes with the newsbeuter package, and features a look and feel very close to the one of newsbeuter. It also shares the same configuration file. sisters sharing a wardrobe, iconic behavior 💅

Podcasts that have been downloaded but haven't been played yet remain in the queue but are marked as downloaded ✅. You can remove them by purging them from the queue with the P key ⌨️. After you've played a file and close podbeuter, it will be removed from the queue. The downloaded file remains on the filesystem 🫶 (the file stays, the queue entry dips, that's the deal).

💜 CONFIGURATION COMMANDS 💜

  • download-path (parameters: <path>; default value: ~/) — specifies the directory where podbeuter shall download the files to 📂. Optionally, the placeholders "%n" (for the podcast feed's name) and "%h" (for the podcast feed's hostname) can be used to place downloads in a directory structure. (example: download-path "~/Downloads/%h/%n") — so tidy, so organized, we love a folder hierarchy 🎀
  • max-downloads (parameters: <number>; default value: 1) — specifies the maximum number of parallel downloads when automatic download is enabled 🚦. (example: max-downloads 3) — yes bestie, she can multitask 🔥
  • player (parameters: <player command>; default value: "") — specifies the player that shall be used for playback of downloaded files 🎧. (example: player "mp3blaster")

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • $HOME/.newsbeuter/config
  • $HOME/.newsbeuter/queue

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

newsbeuter(1). The documentation that comes with newsbeuter is a good source about the general use and configuration of newsbeuter's podcast support 📚 — go read it, it's giving encyclopedia but make it cute.

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Andreas Krennmair <ak@newsbeuter.org>, for contributors see AUTHORS file 🫶

AUTHOR

Andreas Krennmair <ak@newsbeuter.org>

  • Author.
and that's the whole page bestie, no notes, no skips, every single detail intact 💖

okay so this page is serving PODBEUTER(1) from 02/19/2015 🌸 — shoutout to the day she was born, and to whoever wrote her, she ate and left no crumbs 👑✨ bye bestie, go queue something 💅

📦 where this page comes from