How to download Joe Rogan Podcast without Spotify
Tired of installing yet another pointless app? Joe Rogan Experience (JRE Podcast) is a Spotify exclusive podcast now but many of it's former listeners refuse to enter the walled garden that is Spotify. Fortunately it is still possible to listen to the podcast and download full episodes without installing the app.
What you need is:
- just your browser to listen in on an episode
- youtube-dl, a command-line tool to download full episodes.
Play podcast in your browser
Open JRE Podcast on Podtail in your browser.
Any of the episodes you on Podtail is played in an embedded player. No need to register or login anywhere. If you wanted to listen in your browser, that's all you need to do.
Download episodes
In order to download an episode we make use of youtube-dl. Head to their webpage to get instructions on how to download and install on your system. For Ubuntu Users there is also a Snap-Package, making the installation process a lot easier. Just enter in a terminal:
sudo snap install youtube-dl
Open Podtail in your browser and hit F12 to open the DevTools in your browser (tested in Chromium and Firefox). Click the network tab and filter for media. Click on any episode in the listing you want to download. Continue and click listen and start playback in the embedded player and watch the media file appear in your DevTools window.
Right-click on it and copy link address.
Next we open a terminal window and use youtube-dl to grab the file (Windows probably need to change into directory where youtube-dl is installed). The command line would look like this:
youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format vorbis https://anon-podcast.scdn.co/954866a71c6cc46feba60ff8c1496884be770e90
Swap the URL after "vorbis" and copy and paste from your DevTools window. Done!
Thank you but I think this method doesn't work anymore. I don't see the type "media" in any of my browsers, there is only webm or octet stream, it seems like they've changed the way the they provide the stream. I can copy the link and paste it to download the file with yt-dlp, it seems to download the whole episode (like several hundred megabytes) and when I open it with VLC or any other player the duration of the video is correct (let's say 3h15min) but there is only sound for a few seconds. The progress bar keeps moving and time is running but there is no sound after a few seconds. Does this method still work or is there a workaround? Does it still work for you and can you share your current method? Thank you!