Pogo

Podcast RSS feed generator and CMS in Go.

Goal

To produce a product that is easy to deploy and easier to use when hosting a podcast from ones own servers.

Features

• Auto-generate rss feed
• Basic frontend for listening to episodes
• Flat-file directory structure
• Human readable files
• Self publishing interface w/ password protection
• Custom CSS and themeing capabilities
• JSON feed generation for easier parsing
• Docker support

Requirements

github.com/gmemstr/feeds this branch contains some fixes for "podcast specific" tags

github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify

github.com/spf13/viper

github.com/gorilla/mux

Building

make install
make
./webserver

Makefile

There are several commands in the Makefile, for various reasons (commands are preceded by the make command).

• all - also works by just running make, compiles go code to executable
• windows - creates named compiled .exe (pogoapp.exe)
• linux - creates named compiled binary (pogoapp)
• install - installs go dependencies
• docker - build docker image for running elsewhere
• and run - build and run the executable (remove .exe in file for *nix)

non-make

go get github.com/gmemstr/feeds
go get github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify
go get github.com/spf13/viper
go get github.com/gorilla/mux
go build webserver.go generate_rss.go admin.go
./webserver

File format

Pogo uses a flat file structure for managing podcast episodes. as such, files have a special naming convention.

For podcast audio files, filenames take the form of YEAR-MONTH-DAY followed by the title. The two values are seperated by underscores (YYYY-MM-DD_TITLE.mp3).

Shownote fils are markdown formatted and simply append _SHOWNOTES.md to the existing filename (sans .mp3 of course).