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Jut wasted over 2 hours trying to get this working on both Ubuntu and Windows due to the instructions being incorrect. In that time I could have manually downloaded the 100+ podcasts this sript is meant to save me from doing.

• git clone command in wiki causes errors, it shuld just be git clone "github URL", not git@github which fails on both Linux and Windows.
• usage instructions are fully broken. podbean-downloader -u "podbean url" -p "page" doesn't ever work, the correct procedure is to cd to the folder downloader.py is in, then plug in the arguments into python downloader.py
• requirements don't say which OS they're for, I had nothing but issues in ubuntu where the expected command is python3
• pip is not installed with Python in Ubuntu but the steps assume it is / give no guidance how to install it to the beginners finding this page just googling a way to download multiple podcasts and seeing this as a result near the top.
• Error about PATH in the instructions just says you need to add it, with no explanation how to actually add it. I did a fresh install of Python choosing the suggested options and still got the error despite adding the PATH and allowing the 256 character names.

Please provide some usage examples

url_collection = [link.get('href') for link in soup.find_all('a', {'class': 'btn-playnow'})]
line 19 in downloader.py, url_collection is empty, program breaks at that point.