podcaster

Record a scheduled streaming audio feed, save it as an MP3, serve it as a podcast feed for subscription through iTunes.

Installation Notes

Setup the Server (Raspberry Pi)

1. Install the OS and updates
2. Set a static IP address (this code uses 192.168.1.198)

• Method 1: Set a reserved IP for the Raspberry Pi in the router configurations
• Method 2: Edit the interfaces file * $ sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces * $ sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

3. Install web server (Apache)

• $ sudo apt-get install apache2 -y
• Web files are served out of /var/www/html/

4. Create the following folders

• /var/www/html/podcast/
• /var/www/html/podcast/media/
• /user/pi/podcast/
• Set the ownership to pi user sudo chown pi:pi *.*

5. Copy the Python scripts from this repository to /user/pi/python
6. Copy the xml and html files to /var/www/html/podcast/

• Change the permissions of the xml files: chmod 766 *.xml

7. Install the mutagen Python library for MP3 tagging

• $ pip install mutagen

8. Install the Request library to get playlist info off the API

• $ pip install requests

9. Schedule the recordings using Cron

• $ crontab -e to edit the crontab
• # 0 16 * * 1-5 python /user/pi/python/PodRipper.py MBE 180

Note: Raspberry Pi needs to be set to local timezone in raspi-config utility

• command line call: $> python PodRipper [programname] [duration in minutes]