README.md

@@ -1,31 +1,24 @@
 # autoradio
 
-A little Python script to download audio files from RSS feeds and put them
-somewhere so that your music server can grab them. Has been tested on two (2)
-feeds.
+A little Python script to download audio files from RSS feeds. Installation
+is messy and I have tested this on exactly two feeds, so it's by no means
+finished software.
 
 ## Installation
 
-Dependencies are managed with [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/) so install that if you haven't already.
-
-autoradio uses [pycurl](https://pypi.org/project/pycurl/) to do downloads, because it does a bunch of the fiddly stuff around redirects, but pycurl itself can be fiddly to install. On a Raspberry Pi I had to manually install the following packages first using ```apt```:
-
-    libssl-dev
-    libcurl4-openssl-dev
-    python3-dev
-
-Then:
+I packaged this project with poetry and then discovered that poetry can't
+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
     > cd autoradio
-    > uv run autoradio.py --help
-    > uv run autoradio.py
+    > poetry install
+    > poetry shell
+    > pip uninstall pycurl
+    > pip install --compile --install-option="--with-openssl" pycurl
+    > poetry run autoradio --config config.json
 
-To add feeds, edit the config.json file.
-
-## Config
-
-The config file is JSON as follows:
+The config file looks like this.
 
     {
         "feeds": {
@@ -47,13 +40,4 @@ file with the same name is already present, it won't be re-downloaded.
 The value in "max" is the number of entries to look at from each feed, starting
 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
-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
+things like redirects, hopefully).

autoradio/autoradio.py

@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ def main():
         help="Config file",
     )
     args = ap.parse_args()
-    print(f"Config from {args.config}")
     with open(args.config, 'r') as cfh:
         cf = json.load(cfh)
         m = int(cf.get("max", "5"))
@@ -78,5 +77,3 @@ def main():
                 print(f"content = {url}")
                 download_audio(url, config['dir'])
 
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()

pyproject.toml

@@ -8,6 +8,3 @@ dependencies = [
     "feedparser>=6.0.11",
     "pycurl>=7.45.6",
 ]
-
-[project.scripts]
-autoradio = "autoradio.autoradio:main"