Tuesday, December 11, 2012

How to create podcast from dropbox folder


  1. Create dropbox account http://db.tt/14Bl8AQ9
  2. Download dropbox client https://www.dropbox.com/downloading
  3. Enable public folder for your account https://www.dropbox.com/enable_public_folder
  4. Put folders with mp3 in to Dropbox Public
  5. Put podcast.py inside Dropbox Public folder
  6. Right click on podcast.py - Dropbox - Copy public link
  7. Paste link to somethere and copy you id https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1234567/podcast.py (1234567 in example)
  8. Edit podcast.py and replace 1234567 with you ID
  9. Run python podcast.py
  10. Copy public link to feed.xml (Right click - Dropbox - Copy public link)
  11. Enter link from clipboard to your favourite podcast player (btw, i greatly recommend you awesome Downcast app for IOS).
  12. Enjoy!

7 comments:

  1. Hi Inoks,

    do you still offer that python script? The download seems broken at the moment.

    Thanks!

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    1. Hi, Kneels!
      Thanks for your reply.
      I restored podcast repository on github.
      https://github.com/inoks/dropcast

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  2. That was fast! Thank you so much!
    Have a nice day.

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  3. Works like a charm. Thanks again!

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  4. i am on mac, but it's no working

    do you have some idea ?

    thanks

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    1. Do you see any error message then you run python podcast.py?

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