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NAME

StreamFinder::Google - Fetch actual raw streamable podcast URLs on google.com

AUTHOR

This module is Copyright (C) 2021 by

Jim Turner, <turnerjw784 at yahoo.com>

Email: turnerjw784@yahoo.com

All rights reserved.

You may distribute this module under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file.

SYNOPSIS

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

use StreamFinder::Google;

die "..usage:  $0 URL\n"  unless ($ARGV[0]);

my $podcast = new StreamFinder::Google($ARGV[0]);

die "Invalid URL or no streams found!\n"  unless ($podcast);

my $firstStream = $podcast->get();

print "First Stream URL=$firstStream\n";

my $url = $podcast->getURL();

print "Stream URL=$url\n";

my $podcastTitle = $podcast->getTitle();

print "Title=$podcastTitle\n";

my $podcastDescription = $podcast->getTitle('desc');

print "Description=$podcastDescription\n";

my $podcastID = $podcast->getID();

print "Podcast ID=$podcastID\n";

my $icon_url = $podcast->getIconURL();

if ($icon_url) {   #SAVE THE ICON TO A TEMP. FILE:

	print "Icon URL=$icon_url=\n";

	my ($image_ext, $icon_image) = $podcast->getIconData();

	(my $image_filename = $podcastID) =~ s#^[^\/]*\/##;

	if ($icon_image && open IMGOUT, ">/tmp/${image_filename}.$image_ext") {

		binmode IMGOUT;

		print IMGOUT $icon_image;

		close IMGOUT;

		print "...Icon image downloaded to (/tmp/${image_filename}.$image_ext)\n";

	}

}

my $stream_count = $podcast->count();

print "--Stream count=$stream_count=\n";

my @streams = $podcast->get();

foreach my $s (@streams) {

	print "------ stream URL=$s=\n";

}

DESCRIPTION

StreamFinder::Google accepts a valid podcast ID or URL on Google.com and returns the actual podcast URL, title, description, artist, year, and cover art icon. The purpose is that one needs one of these URLs in order to have the option to stream the podcast in one's own choice of media player software rather than using their web browser and accepting any / all flash, ads, javascript, cookies, trackers, web-bugs, and other crapware that can come with that method of play. The author uses his own custom all-purpose media player called "fauxdacious" (his custom hacked version of the open-source "audacious" audio player). "fauxdacious" can incorporate this module to decode and play Google.com podcasts.

For Google podcasts, currently a single stream will be returned for the podcast episode. If no episode-ID is specified, then a stream will be returned for the first (latest) episode on the podcast page.

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

new(url [, -debug [ => 0|1|2 ] ... ])

Accepts a podcasts.google.com podcast URL and creates and returns a a new podcast object, or undef if the URL is not a valid podcast, or no streams are found. The URL can be the full URL, ie. https://podcasts.google.com/feed/podcast-id/episode/episode-id, https://podcasts.google.com/feed/podcast-id, podcast-id/episode-id, or just podcast-id. (If no episode-id is specified, the first (latest) episode on the podcaster's page will be fetched).

$podcast->get(['playlist'])

Returns an array of strings representing all stream URLs found. For Google podcasts, only a single stream URL is returned. If "playlist" is specified, then an extended m3u playlist is returned instead of stream url. NOTE: If an author / channel page url is given, rather than an individual podcast episode's url, get() returns the first (latest?) podcast episode found, and get("playlist") returns an extended m3u playlist containing the urls, titles, etc. for all the podcast episodes found on that page url.

$podcast->getURL([options])

Similar to get() except it only returns a single stream representing the stream found (if a valid stream is found). There currently are no valid options.

$podcast->count()

Returns the number of streams found for the podcast.

$podcast->getID()

Returns the podcast's Google ID consisting of two values (the podcast ID, and the episode ID combined into a single string separated by a slash ("/"). NOTE: Google IDs are generally long strings of random letters and numbers.

$podcast->getTitle(['desc'])

Returns the podcast's title, or (long description). Podcasts on Google usually have separate long-descriptions.

$podcast->getIconURL()

Returns the URL for the podcast's "cover art" icon image, if any.

$podcast->getIconData()

Returns a two-element array consisting of the extension (ie. "png", "gif", "jpeg", etc.) and the actual icon image (binary data), if any.

$podcast->getImageURL()

Returns the URL for the podcast's "cover art" (usually larger) banner image. For Google podcasts, there is no larger banner image, so the Icon URL will be returned.

$podcast->getImageData()

Returns a two-element array consisting of the extension (ie. "png", "gif", "jpeg", etc.) and the actual podcast's banner image (binary data). For Google podcasts, there is no larger banner image, so the Icon image data will be returned.

$podcast->getType()

Returns the podcast's type ("Google").

CONFIGURATION FILES

~/.config/StreamFinder/Google/config

Optional text file for specifying various configuration options for a specific site (submodule). Each option is specified on a separate line in the format below:

'option' => 'value' [,]

and the options are loaded into a hash used only by the specific (submodule) specified. Valid options include -debug => [0|1|2], and most of the LWP::UserAgent options. Blank lines and lines starting with a "#" sign are ignored.

Options specified here override any specified in ~/.config/StreamFinder/config.

~/.config/StreamFinder/config

Optional text file for specifying various configuration options. Each option is specified on a separate line in the format below:

'option' => 'value' [,]

and the options are loaded into a hash used by all sites (submodules) that support them. Valid options include -debug => [0|1|2], and most of the LWP::UserAgent options.

NOTE: Options specified in the options parameter list will override those corresponding options specified in these files.

KEYWORDS

google

DEPENDENCIES

URI::Escape, HTML::Entities, LWP::UserAgent

RECCOMENDS

wget

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-streamFinder-iheartradio at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=StreamFinder-Google. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc StreamFinder::Google

You can also look for information at:

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2021 Jim Turner.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a copy of the full license at:

http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0

Any use, modification, and distribution of the Standard or Modified Versions is governed by this Artistic License. By using, modifying or distributing the Package, you accept this license. Do not use, modify, or distribute the Package, if you do not accept this license.

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