A small python script to display the total duration of all podcasts in any giiven

podcast-counter.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import xml.dom.minidom
import time
import sys

def getEpisodeLength(item):
    seconds = 0
    durationTag = item.getElementsByTagName('itunes:duration')
    hoursMinsSecs = durationTag[0].firstChild.data.split(':')
    seconds += int(hoursMinsSecs[-1])
    seconds += int(hoursMinsSecs[-2]) * 60 # Minutes
    if (len(hoursMinsSecs) == 3):
        seconds += int(hoursMinsSecs[-3]) * 3600 # Hours
    return seconds

def secondsToTime(inputSeconds):
    day = inputSeconds // (24 * 3600)
    inputSeconds = inputSeconds % (24 * 3600)
    hour = inputSeconds // 3600
    inputSeconds %= 3600
    minutes = inputSeconds // 60
    inputSeconds %= 60
    seconds = inputSeconds

    print ("Actual time: %dd %dh %dm %ds" % (day, hour, minutes, seconds))

totalSecs = 0
yearTotal = 0
year = None
if (len(sys.argv) > 1):
    year = int(sys.argv[1])

doc = xml.dom.minidom.parse('feed.xml')
items = doc.getElementsByTagName('item')

for item in items:
    pubDateTag = item.getElementsByTagName('pubDate')
    isoDateTime = pubDateTag[0].firstChild.data # Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:12:08 +0000
    tdObject = time.strptime(isoDateTime[:16], '%a, %d %b %Y')
    episodeLength = getEpisodeLength(item)
    totalSecs += episodeLength
    if (year and tdObject[0] == year):
        yearTotal += episodeLength

if (year):
    print ("Showing totals for %d" % year)
    print ("Total time: %d seconds for %d" % (yearTotal, year))
    secondsToTime(yearTotal)

print ("Total time: %d seconds" % (totalSecs))
secondsToTime(totalSecs)