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• #WIRETAP PODCAST RSS DOWNLOAD#

Opus files are accepted by a minority of podcast players, but work flawlessly in (for example) Chrome on every device except iOS/iPadOS or any KaiOS device. The field is set to 1 only if it's a major podcast player that has been tested specifically for AAC playback. We've had some compatibility issues with Castro. Spotify and Deezer specifically do not support AAC. The acceptsaac field is an opinionated one, reflecting the major >1% podcast players and their support for AAC files. AAC file acceptanceĪAC files are accepted by almost every podcast player, and can offer lower filesize or enhanced quality.

This list is automatically generated from a MySQL database pull requests will be accepted though. url (string): a website to discover more about this particular service.reportssubs (boolean): this is set to 1 if the podcast player reports your subscriber count in its user agent string 0 otherwise.Įach entry can contain one of the following properties:.

acceptsopus (boolean): this is set to 1 if the podcast player definitely accepts Opus files for all users 0 otherwise.acceptsacc (boolean): this is set to 1 if the podcast player definitely accepts AAC files for all users 0 otherwise.slug (string): a domain-like short identifier for this service.name (string): a humanly-readable name of this service.pattern (string): a simple unique string to search for.There's only one - /src/rss-ua.json Contributing to the listĮach entry must contain the following properties: The presence of Mozilla/5.0 appears to calm nervous sysadmins, too. In case you're worried about being blocked, don't be: Podnews has no evidence that its bot has been blocked from any service. Podnews uses: Mozilla/5.0 + PodnewsBot/1.0 and links to this article. It follows the best practice for useragents and contains a clear URL to find out more information, and a useragent that includes the phrase "bot" since it is. Podfollow uses: Mozilla/5.0 + podfollowbot/1.0 These older versions consumed the RSS feed directly.

#WIRETAP PODCAST RSS DOWNLOAD#

This leads to any download from Apple Podcasts on iOS v14.6+, or the Apple Podcasts app on macOS v11.5+.Īpple Podcasts - via app is from earlier versions of Apple Podcasts on iOS or macOS. We use SELECT slug FROM podcasts-rss-ua WHERE 'iTMS' LIKE BINARY CONCAT('%',pattern,'%') LIMIT 1 - the BINARY portion here makes this query case-sensitive.Īpple Podcasts - directory is Apple's RSS scraper. You are advised to use case-sensitive comparisons. Notice that for podcast downloads, the number of 'unknown' clients is less than 1%.Ĭaution: there is an iTMS and an itms useragent which appear different. Here's an example of some data using this list and an example set of RSS feed requests. In many cases, this allows for significantly better statistics. This enables logfile analysis to not only use the audio useragent, but also the RSS useragent. If you produce your RSS feed dynamically, you could use this list to add ?_from= at the end of your audio requests. It can also be used to feed AAC or Opus files to those that accept those formats without issues, thus saving podcast hosts and listeners significant bandwidth. This data has been used to discover Tunein's actual download figures, but are usable for correctly identifying podcast apps in more circumstances than using the audio useragent by itself: particularly for browser-based plays. It can be used to tag audio files to get better statistics from podcast consumption, since some audio useragents are not able to be changed from the default (AppleCoreMedia, I'm looking at you). This is a list of useragents used by apps and services to query RSS data for podcasts.