# Install podcast-dl with Homebrew

CLI for downloading and archiving podcasts. Version 12.1.4 via Homebrew; verified 2026-08-18.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:podcast-dl
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install podcast-dl
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:podcast-dl
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/podcast-dl>
- **Version:** 12.1.4
- **Source summary:** CLI for downloading and archiving podcasts
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/lightpohl/podcast-dl>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/lightpohl/podcast-dl>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/podcast-dl/-/podcast-dl-12.1.4.tgz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-18T18:37:47Z
- **Generated:** 2026-11-04T12:20:42+00:00

## Executables

- podcast-dl (cli)
- podcast-dl (alias)

## Dependencies

- node

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on all

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-11-04
- Package-manager version: 12.1.4
- Package-manager updated: 2026-08-18
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/lightpohl/podcast-dl
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.
## Project history and usage

podcast-dl is a command-line podcast downloader and archiver maintained in the lightpohl GitHub repository.

### Project history

podcast-dl developed as an open-source Node.js command-line utility for downloading and archiving podcasts. The project later added standalone binaries and extensive controls for archival state, templates, metadata, transcripts, images, filtering, and ffmpeg-based processing.

### Adoption history

The project is distributed through npm/npx, downloadable standalone binaries, and Homebrew. Its official GitHub repository also shows a modest community of users and contributors around a specialized archival workflow.

### How it is used

Users supply a podcast RSS URL or local RSS file. The tool can download selected episodes, maintain a JSON archive to avoid duplicates, save metadata, images, and transcripts, generate templated filenames, and post-process audio with ffmpeg.

### Why package nerds care

podcast-dl is useful to archivists and self-hosters because it turns an RSS feed into ordinary local media and metadata rather than tying an archive to a podcast application. Its archive file, filename templates, filtering, and post-processing options make repeatable collections practical.

### Timeline

- Current project: Distributed through npm/npx, release binaries, and Homebrew.

### Related projects

- RSS
- rss-parser
- ffmpeg
- global-agent

### Sources

- <https://github.com/lightpohl/podcast-dl>
- <https://github.com/lightpohl/podcast-dl/tree/main/docs>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for podcast-dl. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** podcast-dl
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable


## Related links

- [Source-control packages](https://pkg.so/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Networking and protocol packages](https://pkg.so/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [Language runtime packages](https://pkg.so/language-runtime-packages/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [ffmpeg](https://pkg.so/brew/ffmpeg/) - Install FFmpeg alongside podcast-dl when embedding metadata, converting audio formats, changing bitrate, or forcing mono output, all of which upstream documents as requiring ffmpeg.

  Sources: <https://github.com/lightpohl/podcast-dl> · <https://ffmpeg.org/documentation.html>

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/podcast-dl.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/podcast-dl.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph