Pocket Casts statistics

This project lets you fetch your Pocket Casts statistics and put them into Airtable with about 80 lines of code. 🎉

Configuration

Airtable

For the tool to work you'll need a free Airtable account. If you don't have one - make one.

1. Go to this example base: https://airtable.com/shryxs3YOERmBeHl1

2. Click on Copy base in the top right corner

3. Once copied delete the records

4. Click on your profile picture in the top right corner

5. Select Account

6. On the page click on Generate API key on the right side under API

   • Save the key and use it later for the AIRTABLE_API_KEY key

7. Go to this page and select your copied base: https://airtable.com/api

8. Select AUTHENTICATION on the left side

9. On the right side there should be a dark area with text looking like this:

   • $ curl https://api.airtable.com/v0/appr9hgXPZbBPqV4n/PocketCasts?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY
   • Save the part between the alphanumeric string for later use (here it would be appr9hgXPZbBPqV4n)
   • The saved string will be used as AIRTABLE_BASE_ID

10. Follow the next steps

Gitlab

For this to work you'll need a free Gitlab.com account. If you don't have one - make one.

1. Make a new project on Gitlab.com.

2. Import this repository as the base for your project.

3. Setup all environment variables in the project.

   • Go to Settings > CI / CD (on the left)

   • Insert variables under Variables (click expand, also see Environment variables)

4. Setup the Pipeline Scheduler

   • Go to CI / CD > Schedules (on the left)

   • Click the green button on the right New schedule

   • Give it a description (eg. "Get new stats every 2h")

   • Select Custom ( Cron syntax ) under Interval Pattern

   • Insert the following into the field: 0 */2 * * * (runs every 2 hours)

   • Make sure under Target Branch you selected your master branch

   • Make sure the checkbox Active is checked

   • Click the Save pipeline schedule

5. Profit! :)

Environment variables

• POCKETCASTS_EMAIL - the email address of your PocketCasts login
• POCKETCASTS_PASSWORT - the password to login to PocketCasts
• AIRTABLE_BASE_ID - the ID of the Airtable base which is used to store the data
• AIRTABLE_API_KEY - your account API key to access Airtable
• AIRTABLE_POCKETCASTS_TABLE - the table to store the PocketCasts information in

IMPORTANT: You cannot use special characters like .!$/\| symbols in the environment variables!

Local testing

1. Make a copy of the .env_example file and name it .env
2. Put in your credentials as mentioned in Environment variables
3. Test the app via docker with: make
4. Profit! :)

Contribution

Please make sure you run black on your code before you commit it!

Lines of code

This project uses about 80 lines of code according to cloc:

➜ cloc app.py .gitlab-ci.yml
       2 text files.
       2 unique files.
       0 files ignored.

github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.80  T=0.01 s (157.1 files/s, 12570.7 lines/s)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language                     files          blank        comment           code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Python                           1             28             43             70
YAML                             1              4              0             15
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SUM:                             2             32             43             85
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Attribution

• Pocket Casts for being an awesome podcast player!
• airtable-python-wrapper as an awesome library to connect to Airtable
• furgoose/Pocket-Casts as a good reference how to query the PocketCasts "API"
• Airtable for being just an awesome tool!
• Gitlab and GitlabCI for being an all in one solution
• Gitlab Scheduler for Pipelines because without it you would need a server.
• gitmoji for better understandable commits through emojis. 🎉
• pylama for checking the code quality.
• pytest for being an awesome testing framework.
• pytest-cov for generating coverage reports.
• black as an awesome code formatter for Python.
• Travis CI for being a nice tool for CIs on Github. 👷
• codecov for showing the code coverage and help improve it.
• pyup for helping to keep this project secure.
• codacy for helping improving the code quality.

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