OPML to Markdown

When you export your podcast subscriptions from Overcast, you get an OPML file something like this:

Note that the file contains usernames and passwords in the feed URL

I wanted to convert the OPML to a Markdown list. Something like this:

* [text](htmlUrl) [RSS](xmlUrl)

Well a little fancier, I wanted a FontAwesome RSS SVG icon as the feed link:

* [text](htmlUrl) <a style="color:#fa9b39" href="xmlURL" itemprop="sameAs">
<i class="fas fa-fw fa-rss-square" aria-hidden="true"></i></a>

I customized a Python script by Dom Davis to:

• Output an unordered list instead of headers.
• Sort the list alphabetically.
• In addition to the title (text)
  • extract the feed URL (xmlUrl)
  • and the podcast home page (htmlUrl)
• Strip username:password from feed URLs.
• Strip (Ad-Free) from titles as they made each line too long.

This generates the Markdown for you to paste into your post:

To remove the real username:password from opml2md.py before posting the gist, a little sed:

sed -i '' "s/passwd = .*/passwd = \"username:password@\"/" opml2md.py