Updated installation instructions for uv

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# autoradio # autoradio
A little Python script to download audio files from RSS feeds. Installation A little Python script to download audio files from RSS feeds and put them
is messy and I have tested this on exactly two feeds, so it's by no means somewhere so that your music server can grab them. Has been tested on two (2)
finished software. feeds.
## Installation ## Installation
I packaged this project with poetry and then discovered that poetry can't Dependencies are managed with [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/) so install that if you haven't already.
install pycurl properly, as the latter requires command-line options to compile
it with the correct SSL backend. Here's the manual workaround:
> git clone https://git.tilde.town/bombinans/autoradio.git Then:
> cd autoradio
> poetry install
> poetry shell
> pip uninstall pycurl
> pip install --compile --install-option="--with-openssl" pycurl
> poetry run autoradio --config config.json
The config file looks like this. > git clone https://git.tilde.town/bombinans/autoradio.git
> cd autoradio
> uv run autoradio.py --help
> uv run autoradio.py
To add feeds, edit the config.json file.
## Config
The config file is JSON as follows:
{ {
"feeds": { "feeds": {
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from the latest. The script parses the RSS feed and looks for links which from the latest. The script parses the RSS feed and looks for links which
seem likely to contain audio and tries to fetch them using pycurl (this handles seem likely to contain audio and tries to fetch them using pycurl (this handles
things like redirects, hopefully). things like redirects, hopefully).
## Running automatically
You will probable want to set up a cron job to run the script on a regular
schedule: all you need to change for this is provide full paths to everything,
including uv. Here's an example where the script is installed in the home
directory of the user ```pi``` under ```~/working/autoradio```
1 1 * * * /home/pi/.local/bin/uv /home/pi/working/autoradio.py --config /home/pi/working/autoradio/config.json