# 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.

## Installation

Dependencies are managed with [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/) so install that if you haven't already.

Then:

    > 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": {
            "Utility Fog": {
                "url": "https://www.frogworth.com/utilityfog/feed/",
                "dir": "/media/pi/Storage/Music/Utility Fog"
            },
            "RA Podcast": {
                "url": "https://ra.co/xml/podcast.xml",
                "dir": "/media/pi/Storage/Music/RA_Podcast"
            }
        },
        "max": 10
    }

Each feed has a URL and a directory where the files will be downloaded. If a
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