yt2podcast

Turn a YouTube channel into a podcast channel using yt2podcast and listen audio tracks using your favorite podcast player.

Tested with:

• Podcast Addict on Android (works)
• gPodder on Linux (works)
• iTunes on Mac (does not work) - probably the XML needs more tags to satisfy iTunes

How to use:

1. Build the package.
2. Create a json file named config.json that specifies how podcast clients connect to the podcast server:

   {
     "Hostname": "your.domain.name",
     "port": "8080"
     "MaxYTStorageBytes": "How much data to keep in the YouTube storage folder. Value set in bytes."
   }
   

3. Get YouTube API credentials from your GCP account and save them to client_secret.json.
4. Run the application.
5. Copy the username or channel ID of the YouTube channel that you want to listen to and add the following link in your podcast player:
   • http://your.domain.name:port/api/ytchan/<username or channel ID>
   • for example, CGP Grey, which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/user/CGPGrey would be used as http://your.domain.name:port/api/ytchan/CGPGrey or http://your.domain.name:port/api/ytchan/UC2C_jShtL725hvbm1arSV9w You can also add a playlist directly by adding http://your.domain.name:port/api/ytplaylist/<playlist ID>
6. Note: You will need to authenticate your application with the YouTube servers after adding a channel or playlist, so keep an eye on the console where the application was launched.