Import old episodes

[codedmonkey]

With the new shownotes parser, we can now have episodes without shownotes and start with parsing of shownotes with older formats.

[ProfessorTom]

Is this work that needs to be done or that has already been accomplished?

[codedmonkey]

I don’t have any metadata of episodes before 612 yet.

To start I wanted to generate a list of available metadata from the no agenda nation feed, which includes codes, titles, publish dates and the mp3 links.

I will probably need to run some custom scripts after that to get the old episode covers from the art generator and download the shownotes.

I almost forgot I also still need to add some transcripts that existed before the site was built but never got indexed, which involves getting the opml link from natranscript.online, but I should have an automated way of doing that.

[ProfessorTom]

Is it worth putting any of the work that you mentioned into their own Issues?

The opml link/parsing for older episodes seems like a good candidate. Could make a branch and add unit tests for that work. 😜

[codedmonkey]

The opml parsing is definitely unreliable so that’s a great idea.