Security Podcasts Tracking System

This repository maintains a list of security-focused podcasts and tracks their activity status.

Files

• List_of_podcast.md: Contains the comprehensive list of security podcasts with their descriptions and links
• check_active_podcasts.py: Python script that checks podcast activity status
• podcast_status.csv: Contains the current status of active podcasts
• podcast_update.csv: Contains the full status report of all podcasts
• changelog.txt: Tracks all changes and updates to the system

Requirements

To run the scripts in this repository, you need Python 3.6+ and the following packages:

pip install requests
pip install beautifulsoup4
pip install pandas

How It Works

The system uses a Python script (check_active_podcasts.py) to:

1. Read podcast URLs from List_of_podcast.md (only podcastindex.org links)
2. Check each podcast’s last update time
3. Generate two CSV files:
   • podcast_status.csv: Shows only active podcasts (updated within 30 days)
   • podcast_update.csv: Shows all podcasts with their current status

check_active_sites.py provides a broader check across all podcast website URLs in List_of_podcast.md, automatically skipping social media and profile links (Twitter/X, Mastodon instances, Reddit, YouTube channel pages) so only actual podcast sites are validated.

Automated Validation

A scheduled GitHub Actions workflow (.github/workflows/check_podcasts.yml) runs every Monday and:

1. Executes check_active_podcasts.py
2. Commits updated podcast_update.csv and podcast_status.csv back to the repository

You can also trigger the workflow manually from the Actions tab using the “Run workflow” button.

Usage

To check podcast status:

python check_active_podcasts.py

Deployment

This site is deployed to Cloudflare Pages. On every push to main, the GitHub Actions workflow in .github/workflows/deploy.yml builds the Jekyll site and deploys it via the Cloudflare Wrangler action.

To enable deployments, add the following secrets to the repository:

• CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN – Cloudflare API token with Pages edit permissions
• CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID – Your Cloudflare account ID

Updates

See changelog.txt for a detailed history of updates and changes to the podcast list and system.