Ad blocking feature idea

[shellster]

I have an idea, for an ad-blocking feature, but it falls significantly outside of the current ad-blocking approach. While I don't expect you to implement this idea, I was wondering if this is something you would merge a well constructed PR for, or if it is too different. I've been thinking about building the following:

1. A lot of podcasts are either released on Youtube as playlists. For instance a lot of TTRPG Actual Plays like Critical Role are both Youtube videos and podcasts.
2. Plenty of python code exists for downloading Youtube audio streams and playlists: (pytube for example).
3. Sponsorblock has a public API for Youtube videos for cutting out ads.

By combining the above things you could turn a Youtube channel or playlist into a podcast feed, and by utilizing Sponsor Block's API you could cut many if not most ads out. If I were to build this on top of podly and submit a PR, would this be something you were interested in incorporating?

[jdrbc]

I like the idea! Have you looked at https://github.com/madiele/vod2pod-rss? It might only be necessary to build the 3rd step there in that project. The ability to subscribe to a YT channel in podly would be neat though.

[shellster]

I had not seen vod2pod. I'll take a look and put together a PR, probably this next weekend for review.