Youcaster is a simple tool for creating a podcast episodes feed from YouTube videos.

Uses telegram bot as an interface. Send a message with link to the video to the telegram bot and wait while it will be downloaded and added to podcast feed.

First register telegram bot and get the token.

Also, you need to generate a Google API key with access to YouTube Data API (needed to fetch video details like description, duration etc.)

You can restrict access to bot by setting TELEGRAM_CHATS env var. To get your chat ID, use userinfobot

Deploy Youcaster on your server. Here is an example docker-compose.yml file:

version: '2'

services:
  mongo:
    image: mongo:6
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./mongo/db:/data/db
      - ./mongo/configdb:/data/configdb

  youcaster:
    image: atomaltera/youcaster:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      PUBLIC_BASE_URL: 'https://youcaster.example.com' # URL of your server
      DOWNLOAD_PATH: "/files" 
      MONGO_URI: 'mongodb://mongo/youcaster'
      WEB_ADDR: '0.0.0.0:3000'
      GOOGLE_API_KEY: '<google API key with access to YouTube Data API'
      TELEGRAM_CHATS: '<your tg chat id>'
      TELEGRAM_TOKEN: '<yout tg bot token>'
    ports:
      - '80:3000'
    depends_on:
      - mongo
    volumes:
      - './files:/files' # downloaded episodes

If your domain name is youcaster.example.com, feed URL will be http://youcaster.example.com/feed

Add it to your podcast player, send link to YouTube video to your telegram bot and enjoy!