podcast-player-content-manager

A content manager system for The Web Platform Today site.

Installation

The package depends on a bunch of pre-requisites for the node-waveform project.

1. Install libgroove dev package. Only the main library is needed. Packages are available for common package managers.
2. Install libpng and zlib dev packages.
3. npm install

Steps to add an episode content

• In the episodes folder create a file called episode_num.json. For example, if the episode number is 45, then you will need to create the file called 045.json.
• Start adding content in json format. Please take a look at the acceptable content section for more details.
• From the terminal, run the command node index.js.
• Once the process is complete, you will see the file content.json in the root directory.

Acceptable Content

A content file should have the following keys

key	type	Description
title	String	The title of the episode
episode	String	The episode number
coverart	String	The cover art of the episode
summary	String	The summary of the episode
mp3	String	The location of the mp3 file
resources	Array of Objects	The resources used in this episode. Consists of a title and a link
panelists	Array of Objects	The panelists who particilated in this episode. Consists of screen_name i.e. their twitter handle, summary of what they do, and github link to their profile.
tags	Array of Strings	The tags associated with this episode.
date	String	The date on which this episode is recorded.

Note: The local mp3 file needs to be a local copy of the podcast file in the mp3 folder. This local file will never be promoted. It is in the mp3 folder just to generate the waveform. Once the datapoints are generated, feel free to delete the local copy of the mp3.

Example

{
  "title": "Diving into Angular 2",
  "episode": "53",
  "coverart": "http://assets.libsyn.com/content/9454132",
  "summary": "Pascal Precht (@PascalPrecht), Senior Software Engineer at Thoughtram & creator of ng-translate, chats with us about the Angular 2 and how developers can get ready today.",
  "localmp3": "../mp3/episode-53_diving-into-angular-2.mp3",
  "mp3": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/thewebplatform/episode-53_diving-into-angular-2.mp3",
  "resources": [
    {
      "title": "Angular 2",
      "link": "http://angular.io"
    },
    {
      "title": "TypeScript",
      "link": "http://www.typescriptlang.org/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Definitely Typed",
      "link": "https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped"
    }
  ],
  "panelists": [
    {
      "screen_name": "prateekjadhwani",
      "summary": "Some stuff about me",
      "github": "https://github.com/prateekjadhwani"
    },
    {
      "screen_name": "eisaksen",
      "summary": "Some stuff about me",
      "github": "https://github.com/Nevraeka"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "angular",
    "polymer",
    "more cool stuff"
  ],
  "date": "14th August 2015",
}