mycroft-skill-podcast

My 3rd attempt at creating a mycroft skill.

This is a 3rd party skill that can either reside in ~/.mycroft/third_party_skills/ or /opt/mycroft/third_party .

This skill is based on the Jupiter Broadcasting Skill.

Intents

Intent	Example Keyphrase	Function	Output
PodcastListenIntent	Mycroft, play the latest Security Now Episode podcast	Play the latest episode of a podcast	opening ....
PodcastLatestIntent	Mycroft, latest Linux Action Show netcast	Visit the latest episode page	opening ....
PodcastLatestIntent	Mycroft, open Tech Snap Podcast Site	Visit the main page for the podcast	opening ....

Install

cd /opt/mycroft/skills
git clone https://github.com/the7erm/mycroft-skill-podcast.git skill-podcast
cd skill-podcast
workon mycroft
# if that doesn't work try `source <path to virtualenv/bin/activate>`
pip install -r requirements.txt
# restart mycroft
./mycroft.sh restart

Configuring mycroft.conf

By default the PodcastSkill uses xdg-open to open media & webpages. Everyone has their favorite media player feel free to set it to vlc please note vlc --flag will not work. You'll need to write a wrapper script that calls vlc with the command line arguments you'd like.

"PodcastSkill": {
    "media_command": "vlc",
    "webpage_command": "xdg-open"
}

feeds.json

feeds.json resides in ~/.mycroft/skills/PodcastSkill For your initial setup you just need to set the rss_url field. The PodcastSkill will then generate additional fields based on data from the rss feed.

Example feeds.json

{
    "Coder Radio": {
        "rss_url": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/coderradiovideo"
    },
    "Linux Action Show": {
        "rss_url": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/computeractionshowvideo"
    },
    "Security Now": {
        "rss_url": "http://feeds.twit.tv/sn_video_hd.xml"
    },
    "TechSnap": {
        "rss_url": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/techsnaphd"
    }
}

After you ./mycroft.sh restart the feeds.json file will be altered. The keyphrase section is now present, this is a list of all the values mycoft will listen for when identifying the show you wan to listen to. You can add your own keyphrases. Take a look at TechSnap's phrases. It'd be a good idea to add tech snap and if you slur your words text app, texas app and even texts app. Perhaps in the future the rss spec will adapt a phonetic list, but at this point in time there is no such spec that I'm aware of.

During testing mycroft was reporting:

    ["tech snap", "tech snapped", "techsnap", "texas map", "text app",
     "text nap", "text snapped", "texts snapped"]

Also you can include your own alternate pronunciations. EG: LAS, L.A.S., Lass and Last would be great for the Linux Action Show.

Example feeds.json after run

{
    "Coder Radio": {
        "keyphrases": [
            "coder radio",
            "coder radio video"
        ],
        "rss_url": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/coderradiovideo",
        "title": "Coder Radio Video"
    },
    "Linux Action Show": {
        "href": "http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com",
        "keyphrases": [
            "linux action show",
            "the linux action show! video"
        ],
        "rss_url": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/computeractionshowvideo",
        "title": "The Linux Action Show! Video"
    },
    "Security Now": {
        "keyphrases": [
            "security now",
            "security now (video-hd)"
        ],
        "rss_url": "http://feeds.twit.tv/sn_video_hd.xml",
        "title": "Security Now (Video-HD)"
    },
    "TechSnap": {
        "href": "http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com",
        "keyphrases": [
            "techsnap",
            "techsnap in hd"
        ],
        "rss_url": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/techsnaphd"
    }
}

feedcache

The PodcastSkill will only fetch a podcast once per hour. ~/.mycroft/skills/PodcastSkill/feedcache is the location of the cache file.

In the event that the device you want your media to play/view isn't the same box as you run mycroft on you'll want to read ssh how to.