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Episode: 4424
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Title: HPR4424: How I use Newsboat for Podcasts and Reddit
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4424/hpr4424.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-26 00:33:31
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This is Hacker Public Radio episode 4,424 for Thursday the 17th of July 2025.
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Today's show is entitled, How I Use Newsboat for Podcasts and Reddit.
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It is hosted by Archer72 and is about 6 minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, Archer72 talks about how he uses newsboat and podboat together for podcast
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listening.
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Hello, this is your host Archer72 for another episode of Hacker Public Radio.
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In this episode, I talk about how I use newsboat and podboat for a couple of tasks.
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I don't always use podboat for podcasts, but it is useful when listening from my laptop.
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For my other podcast listening, I use antenna pod on my Android phone.
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Newsboat source of feeds is from the URL list until the slash dot config slash newsboat
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slash URLs.
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To organize the URL list, tags can be used along with the description of the feed.
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This only gives an internal description as the main title is determined by the RSS
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feed itself.
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This can be manually set, for example, in the HPR future feed.
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The default feed title is the same as the feed for the two weeks.
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To set this manual, you'll use the tilde before the feed title shown in this example.
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Tags follow the feed title typed in parentheses with no spaces.
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Multiple tags can be used here, and here I give an example as seen in the shown notes.
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But everything I have in the URL list is from podcasts.
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Some of them are from Reddit and some are YouTube channels.
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The first item I go to in the morning is my daily Bible verse.
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I heard one of the new hosts mentioned that he reads some and thought it might be interesting
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to include this for some.
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The next two entries are from Reddit and can be modified to contain the RSS feed in
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this way.
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Replace the slash R slash command line with slash R slash command line dot RSS and add title
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and tag in this example.
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The next entry which I included only one is the Lemme instance for lemme dot SDF dot org.
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Lemme is part of the Fediverse and became popular after the June 2023 controversy involving
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charging a excessive money for Reddit's API.
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This in turn caused third party Reddit apps to be no longer viable.
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Next we'll start on a tilde slash config slash newsboat slash config file.
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When in Curing a podcast for pod boat I changed the default download path to tilde slash
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downloads slash podcasts where the download path to those slash downloads slash podcasts
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slash percent H H slash percent N where percent H is the host name and percent N is the
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podcast name.
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The file name is formatted in the following way.
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Percent N space dash space percent T period percent U where percent N is the podcast name
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percent T is the podcast title and percent U indicates the file extension.
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There is a custom line for pod list format which for podcast purposes I won't list out.
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This includes a download index to four places percentage of each podcast downloaded and podcast
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status.
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When I use pod boat after the set of podcasts are unqueued I found a way to monitor the Bluetooth
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connection in order to pause a show with the Bluetooth button on an earbud.
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The first part of this puzzle is to have Empress proxy which is included in the bluesy
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utils found on the wiki for the arch Linux wiki then enable the service with system control
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user enable Empress Empress proxy to service and system control dash dash user start Empress
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proxy service.
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After that get clone the following repo that I'll leave in the show notes and I'll leave
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the source to where I found this and then CD to Empress and use the make command with
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the resulting Empress dot SO copied to tilde slash dot config slash MPB slash scripts.
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So that's all I have for now.
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Next time I'll be sure to highlight more things in my URL list for my newsboat config.
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Until next time this has been archer 72 for hacker public radio.
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You have been listening to hacker public radio as hacker public radio does work.
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Today's show was contributed by a HBR listener like yourself.
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If you ever thought of recording podcasts you click on our contribute link to find out
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how easy it really is.
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Hosting for HBR has been kindly provided by an honesthost.com, the internet archive and
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rsync.net.
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On the Sadois status today's show is released under Creative Commons, Attribution 4.0 International
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License.
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