YouTube Podcasts Feed

Rust implementation of my tg-youtube-podcasts-bot

This is self-hosted service for extract audio from YouTube videos and build rss feed that can be added to Podcast app.

It allows to subscribe to YouTube channels/playlists using Telegram bot and automatically get updates to feed. Also, single item can be added without subscription.

The service uses yt-dlp to pull videos and ffmpeg for audio extraction.

Bot commands

add

Add subscription or single video to feed.

Add single item

/add https://youtube.com/watch?v={id}

Subscribe to channel

/add https://youtube.com/c/{id}
/add https://youtube.com/channel/{id}

Subscribe to playlist

/add https://youtube.com/watch?v={video_id}&list={id}
/add https://youtube.com/playlist?list={id}

Filter string can be added to subscription to get only specified updates

/add https://youtube.com/c/{id} {some title entry}

remove

Removes specified subscription. Same syntax as fo adding subscription.

API

Servise expose only one endpoint for adding feed to Podcasts app.

• GET /rss/{key} - returns generated rss xml with configured limit

Configuration

Add .env file following the example of .env.example

• BOT_TOKEN - token for Telegram bot to communicate with;
• CHAT_ID - id of chat/group where updates will be posted
• UPDATE_INTERVAL - iterval for feed update in minutes (min 10 mins are recommended);
• RSS_KEY - secret key that will be added to /rss/ endpoint (string)