Audiobooks

Turn some audiobooks resources into podcasts RSS

This page is mostly autogenerated from the http://litteratureaudio.com website.

They do a fantastic job reading books and publishing mp3 … in wordpress articles. I like the way http://librivox.org publishes books as an RSS feed, for everyone to enjoy in their favorite podcast player.

1 Search for an audiobook

Type in book title, copy the RSS link, paste it somewhere.

    2 Create RSS from the website

    RSS is a must have for audiobooks, to be able to keep track and sync between devices.

    litteratureaudio.com is a sad wordpress instance with little to no automation options. The content seems to be mostly organized by hand. There is no apparent full RSS nor json, XML-RDF of any sort. To produce a RSS, we will need to first scrapt to goddam website.

    2.2 Handle the different kinds of books

    Books aren't always laid out and structured the same.

    Most books embed the mp3 list in a .link-roman-mp3-file class container but if there is only one episode, then the mp3 link is just sitting

    2.3 Extract more information about each book

    Tags, author name, publication date, an image for the feed.

    2.4 Validate the RSS to what apple requires

    Use https://castfeedvalidator.com/ as it seems good enough for our needs.

    3 Generate the RSS index JSON file for the search / fuzzy finder engine

    here=`pwd`
cd ~/public_html/audiobooks
touch index.json
echo -n "[" > index.json
for file in `ls *.rss`; do
    parts=`echo $file | sed 's/[_,.]/ /g'`
    echo "{\"title\": \"$parts\", \"uri\": \"$file\"}," >> index.json
done
echo -n "{}]" >> index.json
cp index.json $here/
date
exit 0