Resources
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Slurping podcasts for research and preservation with yt-dlp
My comedy archive includes hundreds of podcasts stretching back to the medium’s infancy, and I continue to actively preserve dozens of shows each week. I also routinely listen to and transcribe podcasts in the course of my research, so I’m constantly saving and organising local copies of audio files. Since podcasting is haphazardly elegantly built… Continue reading
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RSS for researchers
RSS rules. It’s one of the last remaining vestiges of the good internet, and its status as an open, extensible, decentralised standard feels increasingly anachronistic, perhaps even radical, on today’s web. Over its lifetime RSS has proven surprisingly flexible and conducive to new uses — podcasting being the most famous example — but the standard… Continue reading