Feature request: local RSS feed
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Hi!
I have a suggestion which I found was asked a couple of times but some years have passed: add support for local RSS feeds (-> feeds not available on the internet).
There are a couple of reasons for this:
- time required to update the internet feed: using Pocket Casts, some information are cached by Pocket Casts. For example, I lost an afternoon because I wasn’t able to update my podcast icon and it turned out it was just the Pocket Casts cache. I don’t think developer/publishers can lose a day just because they have to wait for Pocket Casts :) I was able to verify my feed just installing any random podcast app, but you get the point, I *had to install a different app* to validate my feed.
This is frustrating because the user doesn’t have control of it, you don’t know how much it will take. I had to recreate a feed with a different URL to force the update… - https://support.pocketcasts.com/knowledge-base/password-protected-podcasts/ this actually has some issues. In particular, while you can use that procedure to generate a link which points to the password protected feed, modern browsers *do not like* password protected urls inside a webpage.
Example: let’s have <user:password>@domain.com/feed.xml, I would expect the audio files to be also password protected, for example <user:password>@domain.com/file.mp3. However, this *does not* work because Chrome (and I guess other browsers) doesn’t load embedded urls which have the <user:password> links like that. I am not sure if this works on Android/iOS apps but it may work, as they are build by Pocket Casts developers.
https://groups.google.com/g/selenium-users/c/_5sN560-qA4/m/2s5BJjAwAgAJ
My solution for development was to password protect the public feed but allow only my local network to access the mp3 files, which… is a mess. I had to setup nginx and all of that just to be able to test my local feed. I still don’t have a solution to allow other users to access it without allowing anyone to access the audio files.
Thank you!
Roberto
- time required to update the internet feed: using Pocket Casts, some information are cached by Pocket Casts. For example, I lost an afternoon because I wasn’t able to update my podcast icon and it turned out it was just the Pocket Casts cache. I don’t think developer/publishers can lose a day just because they have to wait for Pocket Casts :) I was able to verify my feed just installing any random podcast app, but you get the point, I *had to install a different app* to validate my feed.
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@nothwupgrade I’ve gone ahead and moved it to the feature requests section. :)
And thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on this! I’ve added it to our internal feature request tool, which will flag it for our development team to take into consideration for future development. Thanks again!
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