git-annex-importfeed - import files from podcast feeds

       Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>

                                                                                         git-annex-importfeed(1)

       Imports the contents of podcasts and other rss and atom feeds. Only downloads files whose content has not
       already  been  added  to  the  repository  before, so you can delete, rename, etc the resulting files and
       repeated runs won't duplicate them.

       When yt-dlp is installed, it can be used to download links in the  feed.   This  allows  importing  e.g.,
       YouTube  playlists.   (However,  this  is  disabled  by  default  as  it can be a security risk.  See the
       documentation of annex.security.allowed-ip-addresses in git-annex(1) for details.)

       To make the import process add metadata to the imported files from the feed, gitconfigannex.genmetadatatrue

       By default, the downloaded files are put in a directory with the title of the feed, and files  are  named
       based on the title of the item in the feed. This can be changed using the --template option.

       Existing  files  are  not  overwritten  by  this  command. If "some feed/foo.mp3" already exists, it will
       instead write to "some feed/2_foo.mp3" (or 3, 4, etc). Sometimes  a  feed  will  change  an  item's  url,
       resulting in the new url being downloaded to such a filename.

       git-annex-importfeed - import files from podcast feeds

--force

              Force downloading items it's seen before.

       --fast, --relaxed, --verifiable, --raw, --raw-except
              These options behave the same as when using git-annex-addurl(1).

       --fast Avoid  immediately downloading urls. The url is still checked (via HEAD) to verify that it exists,
              and to get its size if possible.

       --relaxed
              Don't immediately download urls, and avoid storing the size of the url's content. This makes  git-
              annex accept whatever content is there at a future point.

       --raw  Prevent  special  handling of urls by yt-dlp, bittorrent, and other special remotes. This will for
              example, make importfeed download a .torrent file and not the contents it points to.

       --no-raw
              Require content pointed to by the url to be downloaded using yt-dlp or a  special  remote,  rather
              than the raw content of the url. if that cannot be done, the import will fail, and the next import
              of the feed will retry.

       --scrape
              Rather  than  downloading  the url and parsing it as a rss/atom feed to find files to import, uses
              yt-dlp to screen scrape the equivilant of a feed, and imports what it found.

       --template
              Controls where the files are stored.

              The default template is '${feedtitle}/${itemtitle}${extension}'

              The available variables in the template  include  these  that  are  information  about  the  feed:
              feedtitle, feedauthor, feedurl

              And  these  that  are  information  about  individual  items  in  the feed: itemtitle, itemauthor,
              itemsummary, itemdescription, itemrights, itemid.

              Also, title is itemtitle but falls back to feedtitle if the item  has  no  title,  and  author  is
              itemauthor but falls back to feedauthor.

              (All of the above are also added as metadata when annex.genmetadata is set.)

              The extension variable is the extension of the file in the feed, or sometimes ".m" if no extension
              can be determined.

              The template also has some variables for when an item was published.

              itempubyear  (YYYY),  itempubmonth  (MM),  itempubday  (DD), itempubhour (HH), itempubminute (MM),
              itempubsecond (SS), itempubdate (YYYY-MM-DD or if the feed's date cannot be parsed, the raw  value
              from the feed).

              (These use the UTC time zone, not the local time zone.)

       --no-check-gitignore
              By  default,  gitignores are honored and it will refuse to download an url to a file that would be
              ignored. This makes such files be added despite any ignores.

       --jobs=N-JN
              Runs multiple downloads parallel. For example: -J4

              Setting this to "cpus" will run one job per CPU core.

       --backend
              Specifies which key-value backend to use.

       --json Enable JSON output. This is intended to be parsed by programs that use  git-annex.  Each  line  of
              output is a JSON object.

       --json-progress
              Include progress objects in JSON output.

       --json-error-messages
              Messages that would normally be output to standard error are included in the JSON instead.

       Also the git-annex-common-options(1) can be used.

git-annex(1)

       git-annex-addurl(1)

       git annex importfeed [url...]