Feature request: allow printing/exporting list of episodes in JSON format

[manojkarthick]

Thanks again for creating this tool! Currently podcast-dl prints the list of episodes in a table format, but being able to print in JSON format would be really useful.

For example, something like this:

--list                             # prints in table format
--list --format=table  # print in table format
--list --format=json   # print in JSON format

The scenarios where this might be potentially useful:

• saving the list of episodes as JSON metadata alongside podcast/episode metadata
• pass the output of the list option to a tool like jq and calculate offset/limit based on some logic (eg. time period) to download specific episodes

[lightpohl]

Great suggestion! Thanks for opening an issue.

I'll see if I can append the functionality to the existing flag, so the behavior would then be:

• --list: prints in table format
• --list "table": prints in table format
• --list "json": prints in JSON format

I'll get this into the next update. 👍

[lightpohl]

Thanks again!

Added in v5.1.0 with the --list-format option. Checkout the README for more details. 👍

[manojkarthick]

Thanks you so much for adding this feature! Should be really helpful 👍