Pp Podscan

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Podscan — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the podscan-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:

1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows:

   npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install podscan --cli-only

2. Verify: podscan-pp-cli --version
3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.

If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer):

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/media-and-entertainment/podscan/cmd/podscan-pp-cli@latest

If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.

Command Reference

alerts — Manage alerts

• podscan-pp-cli alerts create — Create a new alert
• podscan-pp-cli alerts delete — Delete an alert
• podscan-pp-cli alerts get — Get an alert
• podscan-pp-cli alerts list — List configured alerts

categories — Manage categories

• podscan-pp-cli categories — List all podcast categories

episodes — Manage episodes

• podscan-pp-cli episodes get — Get an episode by ID
• podscan-pp-cli episodes search — Search episodes by transcript content

exports — Manage exports

• podscan-pp-cli exports download — Download an export file
• podscan-pp-cli exports list-episode — List daily episode export files
• podscan-pp-cli exports list-podcast — List podcast catalog export files

podcasts — Manage podcasts

• podscan-pp-cli podcasts get — Get a podcast by ID
• podscan-pp-cli podcasts search — Search podcasts by name or description

Finding the right command

When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly:

podscan-pp-cli which "<capability in your own words>"

which resolves a natural-language capability query to the best matching command from this CLI's curated feature index. Exit code 0 means at least one match; exit code 2 means no confident match — fall back to --help or use a narrower query.

Auth Setup

Store your access token:

podscan-pp-cli auth set-token YOUR_TOKEN_HERE

Or set PODSCAN_BEARER_AUTH as an environment variable.

Run podscan-pp-cli doctor to verify setup.

Agent Mode

Add --agent to any command. Expands to: --json --compact --no-input --no-color --yes.

• Pipeable — JSON on stdout, errors on stderr

• Filterable — --select keeps a subset of fields. Dotted paths descend into nested structures; arrays traverse element-wise. Critical for keeping context small on verbose APIs:

  podscan-pp-cli alerts list --agent --select id,name,status

• Previewable — --dry-run shows the request without sending

• Offline-friendly — sync/search commands can use the local SQLite store when available

• Non-interactive — never prompts, every input is a flag

• Explicit retries — use --idempotent only when an already-existing create should count as success, and --ignore-missing only when a missing delete target should count as success

Response envelope

Commands that read from the local store or the API wrap output in a provenance envelope:

{
  "meta": {"source": "live" | "local", "synced_at": "...", "reason": "..."},
  "results": <data>
}

Parse .results for data and .meta.source to know whether it's live or local. A human-readable N results (live) summary is printed to stderr only when stdout is a terminal — piped/agent consumers get pure JSON on stdout.