hexo-generator-podcasts

The plugin make your hexo can use as a podcast site.

News

To know new features and bugfixes, please visit releases index.

Features

• Multiple Podcast Support
• Custom Podcast Path Support
• Apple Podcast Spec
• short code for web player: your can insert {% podplayer %} into your article for web player

Demo

• Podcast Site: https://productivity.wiki/
• Podcast Feed: https://productivity.wiki/feed/podcast

Installation

go to the root folder of your hexo blog(contains \themes, index.html, \node_modules, etc.).

unix/linux terminal run

npm install hexo-generator-podcasts --save

Options

open root _config.yml

add

For Single Podcast

podcasts:
  name: "podcast"
  path: "feed/podcast"
  title: "生产力维基"
  subtitle: "xxx"
  description: "一个关注时间管理、知识管理、目标管理、项目管理、精力管理和个人效能的播客. 欢迎一同讨论生产力工具的心得！"
  image: "img.jpeg"
  language: "zh-CN"
  category:
    - Technology
    - Business
      - Management & Marketing
    - Technology
      - Tech News
  explicit: "clean" 
  author: "白宦成"
  link: https://productivity.wiki/
  owner:
    name: "白宦成"
    email: [email protected]
  type: episodic
  copyright: 生产力维基
  updatePeriod: hourly
  updateFrequency: 1

• name: podcast name, also use as podcast category
• path: podcast feed path
• title: podcast title
• subtitle: podcast subtitle
• description: podcast
• image: podcast cover image, you can put image under source directory and put filename here.
• language: podcast language, ISO-639 style,if not set, value is "en-US"
• category: podcast category.
• explicit: suitable for children? if not set, value is "clean"
• author: podcast author
• link: podcast homepage
• owner: podcast owner with name & email
• type: podcast type, option can be "episodic" or "serial",if not set, value is "episodic"
• copyright: copyright text
• updatePeriod: update period, if not set, value is "hourly"
• updateFrequency: updateFrequency, if not set, value is 1

For Multiple Podcast

podcasts:
  - name: "podcast"
    path: "feed/podcast"
    title: "生产力维基"
    subtitle: "xxx"
    description: "一个关注时间管理、知识管理、目标管理、项目管理、精力管理和个人效能的播客. 欢迎一同讨论生产力工具的心得！"
    image: "img.jpeg"
    language: "zh-CN"
    category:
      - Technology
      - Business
        - Management & Marketing
      - Technology
        - Tech News
    explicit: "clean"
    author: "白宦成"
    link: https://productivity.wiki/
    owner:
      name: "白宦成"
      email: [email protected]
    type: episodic
    copyright: 生产力维基
    updatePeriod: hourly
    updateFrequency: 1
  - name: "podcast"
    path: "feed/podcast2"
    title: "生产力维基"
    subtitle: "xxx"
    description: "一个关注时间管理、知识管理、目标管理、项目管理、精力管理和个人效能的播客. 欢迎一同讨论生产力工具的心得！"
    image: "img.jpeg"
    language: "zh-CN"
    category:
      - Technology
      - Business
        - Management & Marketing
      - Technology
        - Tech News
    explicit: "clean"
    author: "白宦成"
    link: https://productivity.wiki/
    owner:
      name: "白宦成"
      email: [email protected]
    type: episodic
    copyright: 生产力维基
    updatePeriod: hourly
    updateFrequency: 1

Episode Information

you can create a new episode by run hexo new episode [title], it will have some default metadata in the front-matter of your post.

---
title: {{ title }}
date: {{ date }}
tags:
category: podcast
media: /path/to/media # placed under //URL/to/static/resources/path/to/media
image: /path/to/episode/image # same as above, but somehow itunes doesn't support episode image as it should do
length: 6989
type: audio/mpeg
duration: XX:YY:AA
chapter:
  [
    ["00:00:00.000", "Title 1"],
    ["OTHER STARTTIME", "Another title"]
  ]
layout: podcast
---

• title: episode title
• date: episode publish date
• category: episode category, also use as podcast name in config file
• media: mp3/wav file path, you can put it on your source directory and put filename here. for example, if your file name is episode1.mp3, this option is episode1.mp3

├── source
│   ├── _posts
│   ├── about
│   ├── archive
│   └── episode1.mp3

• image: episode coverimage
• length: episode file length, in bytes.
• type: file type
• duration: episode duration
• chapter: episode chapter
• layout: default, set as podcast.

FAQ

What's this plugin supposed to do?

This plugin is used for generating a podcast feed file from your Hexo blog.

How to add Web Podcast Player?

add {% podplayer %} input any where you want to insert audio player.

Future Works

1. Buildin Music Player.

LICENSE

GPL