podpull

A command-line tool for downloading podcast episode audio files. It can work from Apple Podcasts links, podcast RSS feeds, or Xiaoyuzhou episode links; an RSS feed is the list of episodes and their media files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect shows, list episodes, download the newest or selected episodes, and save MP3 or M4A files. It also supports matching episodes by text and JSON output.
Why use it?
It removes the need to find the direct audio file yourself. You can search for shows, choose episodes, and save their audio locally.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xiaoleiy/podpull/integrations
Any agent
npx skills add xiaoleiy/podpull --skill integrations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xiaoleiy/podpull

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,024 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00108 $0.01024
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.00512
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00102

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2a6ab6bbdd8f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

podpull scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (__init__.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

src/podpull/integrations/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

podpull — download podcast episode audio

Use the installed podpull command-line tool to download podcast audio. Repo: https://github.com/xiaoleiy/podpull

If it isn't installed: brew install xiaoleiy/tap/podpull (macOS/Linux) or pipx install git+https://github.com/xiaoleiy/podpull.

How it works (so you pick the right command)

Apple Podcasts holds no audio — it points at each show's RSS feed, where every episode has a direct <enclosure> URL. podpull resolves Apple show URLs/IDs, raw RSS feeds, and xiaoyuzhou links to that audio and downloads it.

Commands

podpull search "<keywords>"                  # find shows -> Apple ID, #episodes, name
podpull info  <src>                          # show metadata (title, author, feed, latest)
podpull list  <src> [--match RE] [--all]     # list episodes; index 0 = newest
podpull get   <src> --match RE | --latest N | --index 0,2[,..]   # download (alias: `pull`)
podpull get   <episode-url>                  # download a pasted Apple ?i= or xiaoyuzhou link
podpull get   <src> ... -q / --quiet         # suppress spinner/progress bar
podpull --json <cmd> …                       # one JSON document on stdout (flag before command)
podpull serve [--host] [--port]              # local UI: search / trending / browser download

Hosted web UI (same idea, no install): https://podpull.xiaolei.work/app

<src> = Apple show URL · bare Apple ID · RSS feed URL · Apple episode ?i= URL · xiaoyuzhou episode URL.

Workflow

  1. Resolve the show: if you only have a name, podpull search "<name>"; then podpull list <id> to see episodes.
  2. Download with a selector--match (title regex), --latest N, or --index 0,2.
  3. Report the saved path. The file path is printed to stdout; progress/UI go to stderr, so capture stdout when scripting.

Important for agents (non-interactive)

  • Always pass a selector and --no-input. Running podpull get <show> with no selector opens an interactive keyboard picker — which can't be driven non-interactively and will instead error with a hint. Use e.g. podpull get 1532755821 --latest 1 --no-input.
  • Add -q/--quiet to suppress the spinner and live progress bar on stderr — recommended for agent transcripts, since neither renders meaningfully outside a live terminal. Saved file paths still print to stdout either way.
  • Prefer podpull --json … when you need structured data (search / info / list / get). The flag goes before the command. On success stdout is one JSON document; on failure check the exit code (human error on stderr, no JSON).
  • Downloads default to ~/Downloads/Podcasts; pass --out DIR to change.
  • Selecting multiple episodes creates a per-show sub-folder. Filenames are normalized to be cloud-storage-safe (emoji/illegal characters removed; CJK kept).
  • Optional: if PODCASTINDEX_API_KEY/PODCASTINDEX_API_SECRET are set, search also queries Podcast Index and feed resolution gains a fallback; ximalaya.com/album/ links work as a source.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 69 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2a6ab6bbdd8f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

podpull is a skill published in the GitHub repository xiaoleiy/podpull (141 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 1,024 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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