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Sum podcast feed duration
"""
Extract duration from episodes suming it, convert it to hours, seconds, max duration episode and min duration.
- Install xmltodict
python3 -m pip install xmltodict
Change feed_url to your own feed url.
This Python file could be converted to a script passing args when calling it.
"""
import urllib
import xmltodict
import argparse
def feed_duration(feed_url: str):
file = urllib.request.urlopen(feed_url)
data = file.read()
file.close()
data = xmltodict.parse(data)
return [ int(item['itunes:duration']) for item in data['rss']['channel']['item'] ]
def main():
feed_url = 'https://anchor.fm/s/fee55e8/podcast/rss'
items_duration = feed_duration(feed_url)
duration_seconds = sum(items_duration)
hours = "{}h{}m{}s".format( str(duration_seconds//3600), str( (duration_seconds%3600)//60) , str( (duration_seconds%3600)%60) )
print ("Episodes : {}\nDuration (seconds): {}\nDuration hours: {}\nMax duration: {}\nMin duration: {}".format( str(len(items_duration)), str(sum(items_duration)), hours, str(max(items_duration)), str(min(items_duration))))
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
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