Setup spodcast on synology NAS

Spodcast is a python tool to download podcasts from spotify and create a rss feed automatically

prerequisite steps on synology NAS

install packages:

Python 3.9 (beta)
Web Station
PHP 7.4

enable home-folder-service for the user

create a "podcasts" folder in the web root:

var/services/web/podcasts

activate telnet/ssh-service first & connect with powershell

ssh user@ip -p 22

install pip

Install pip
sudo python3 -m ensurepip

Update pip
sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip

Check pip version
python3 -m pip -V

Install a package
sudo python3 -m pip install spodcast

setup & run spodcast

first create a free spotify account and a spotify.rc² somewhere (this file should be deleted later)

second install spodcast

sudo pip install spodcast

then setup spocast user & root path

python3 -m spodcast -c /var/services/web/podcasts/spodcast.json --root-path /var/services/web/ -p -l /var/services/homes/username/spotify.rc

run this once to find out full url/name of the podcast

python3 -m spodcast -c /var/services/web/podcasts/spodcast.json --max-episodes 2 https://open.spotify.com/show/asdfxyz

change feedgenerator.py from

#$base_url = strtok($PROTOCOL . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '?');
#feed_logo = "$base_url/''' + RSS_FEED_SHOW_IMAGE + r'''";

to hardcoded urls (because I didn't figure out quickly how to configure the webserver on my NAS to properly work with the hidden .index files) ³

$base_url = "http://url/podcasts/podcast_name/";
$feed_logo = "http://url/podcasts/podcast_name/image.jpg";

setup cronjob for regular update of the feed: add above command as "user-defined script"⁴