metalsmith-podcast

A metalsmith plugin for generating a podcast feed

This plugin allows you to generate a podcast feed from your source files. By default it looks for any .html files and processes them with node-podcast.

Installation

$ npm install metalsmith-podcast

Example

Configuration in metalsmith.json:

{
  "plugins": {
    "metalsmith-podcast": {
      "title": "My podcast",
      "description": "A short overview of the podcast series.",
      "feed_url": ""
    }
  }
}

Options

You can pass options to metalsmith-podcast with the Javascript API or CLI. The options are the same as described under node-podcast:

• title string Title of your site or feed
• description optional string A short description of the feed.
• generator optional string Feed generator.
• feed_url url string Url to the rss feed.
• site_url url string Url to the site that the feed is for.
• image_url optional *url string Small image for feed readers to use.
• docs optional url string Url to documentation on this feed.
• author string Who owns this feed.
• managingEditor optional string Who manages content in this feed.
• webMaster optional string Who manages feed availability and technical support.
• copyright optional string Copyright information for this feed.
• language optional string The language of the content of this feed.
• categories optional array of strings One or more categories this feed belongs to.
• pubDate optional Date object or date string The publication date for content in the feed
• ttl optional integer Number of minutes feed can be cached before refreshing from source.
• itunesAuthor optional string (iTunes specific) author of the podcast
• itunesSubtitle optional string (iTunes specific) subtitle for iTunes listing
• itunesSummary optional string (iTunes specific) summary for iTunes listing
• itunesOwner optional object (iTunes specific) owner of the podcast ( {name:String, email:String} )
• itunesExplicit optional boolean (iTunes specific) specifies if the podcast contains explicit content
• itunesCategory optional array of objects (iTunes specific) Categories for iTunes ( [{text:String, subcats:[{text:String, subcats:Array}]}] )
• itunesImage optional string (iTunes specific) link to an image for the podcast

Frontmatter

Some values can also be set on a file-to-file basis from a file's frontmatter, the options are:

• title string Title of this particular item.
• description string Content for the item. Can contain html but link and image urls must be absolute path including hostname.
• url url string Url to the item. This could be a blog entry.
• guid unique string A unique string feed readers use to know if an item is new or has already been seen. If you use a guid never change it. If you don't provide a guid then your item urls must be unique.
• categories optional array of strings If provided, each array item will be added as a category element
• author optional string If included it is the name of the item's creator. If not provided the item author will be the same as the feed author. This is typical except on multi-author blogs.
• date Date object or date string The date and time of when the item was created. Feed readers use this to determine the sort order. Some readers will also use it to determine if the content should be presented as unread.
• lat optional number The latitude coordinate of the item.
• long optional number The longitude coordinate of the item.
• enclosure optional object Attach a multimedia file to this item.
• url string Url to the related file.
• file optional string Path to the related file on the filesystem. Used to fill out size and mime information.
• size optional number Number of bytes in the file. The length field will defualt to 0 if the size or file fields have not been set.
• mime optional string Mime type of the file. Will be guessed from the url if this parameter is not set.
• explicit optional boolean (iTunes specific) specifies if the podcast contains explicit content
• subtitle optional string (iTunes specific) subtitle for iTunes listing
• duration optional number (iTunes specific) duration of the podcast item in seconds

For example:

---
private: true
title: 'Episode title'
description: 'Episode content. It can include html.'
url: 'http://example.com/episode4?this&that'
categories: ['javascript', 'podcast']
author: 'Bruce Banner'
date: 'May 9, 2017'
explicit: false
duration: 12345
---
<!-- index.html -->

Roadmap

• Let node-podcast handle default options instead of passing all options to it with default values (loop through opts object and set only those that exist)
• Test coverage
• Docs site

License

MIT