I'll use this issue to record the problems I'm having running the project locally as it currently is (https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/web-ui/tree/1eba32766a58b48cc0957e36a53465231253f84b).

Related issues

• #219

Related PRs

• #230

Related Mastodon threads

• https://podcastindex.social/@dave/109854671837458522

Links and references

• https://github.com/mrsteele/dotenv-webpack

References:

• https://podcastindex.social/@Afflicted/107856340987128164

Hello @daveajones 👋

RSS.com has been recently updated with support for the podcast:txt tag. Could it be possible to update the podcast index directory with this feature?

Thank you ❤️

Hi there, Ken here, sorry I am not too savvy with github.
Not sure how to submit a Pull Request. Here is the info though for our app, if you could pleeeease help me get it listed on the hosts page I would greatly appreciate it. I put my email at the bottom too just in case:

App type:
App, Blockchain, Hosting, Node Hosting, Open Source, Other, Podcast Player, Video, Website

Supported Elements:
Funding, Live, Locked, Person, Podping, Search, Social Interact, Soundbite, Trailer, Transcript, Value

Platforms:
Hive, Mobile, Web

CastGarden - https://Cast.Garden
Email: [email protected]

My girlfriend has a writers podcast called "Good On Paper"

She originally had it hosted on RSS.com, but switched to anchor to save money. Since then, the podcast has stopped playing on podcastindex-using apps, such as the podcastindex.com player, Fountain, and Podverse.

I tried to work around this by using an IPFS feed, but that didn't play either and subsequently there are two of her podcasts on the index now, with neither able to play.

Please help us 🙏

Currently supported by podfriend and podverse.
Might be interesting to also add Minipub and the other project from John that I cannot remember the name right now.
cc @johnspurlock-skymethod

See report: https://podcastindex.social/web/statuses/105108411917629302

The health risks to users of white mode are dire, from bleeding eyes to permanent loss of sight.

Seriously, get a darkmode. 🖤

[I do have a rule to not contribute to free software projects that do not have a darkmode. But I love podcastindex.org too much, so I might give you some slack for now...]

Podcast Guru, as per the following announcement, now has a "Web app". The current listing for this app on the podcast index app page (https://podcastindex.org/apps) has "Android, iOS".

I am preparing a pull request to be submitted directly to address this update.

To the developers here: thanks for all your great work on the Podcast index. Much appreciated.

Note I am not affiliated with Podcast Guru, I just found the anomaly and wanted to help out here.

@daveajones
not directly on the content here, but suggesting to do this for the websites of the project

details on the topic:

• https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea
• https://spreadprivacy.com/block-floc-with-duckduckgo/

how to block with nginx: add_header Permissions-Policy "interest-cohort=()";

how to test a webservice: curl -sI https://ds.ccc.de | grep -i "Permissions-Policy" && printf "Above policy found.\n" || printf "No policy found.\n"
expected part in header: "Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=()"

btw. Permissions-Policy … that used to be called Feature-Policy

In my opinion, https://podcastindex.org/apps should have an link to the corresponding data file. (https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/web-ui/blob/master/server/data/apps.json, but on https://podcastindex.org/api/apps )

The “Follow us on Twitter or Mastodon” footer line links here:

https://noagendasocial.com/@podcastindex

But that’s a 404.

Hi,

I can't find a license for the code, this means that nobody can legally use or contribute to it. Can you please add a license?

There is a filtering section/type that is currently called Supported Elements, but that section includes features such as Search.
I think that Supported Features would suit it better.
Also, for non techies, I think this term is friendlier.

This is a leftover of #218.

GitHub Actions workflow has been failing for the last three months due to use of unsupported schema values (see this for example). Which of the following should be added to apps-schema.json and which should be removed from apps.json?

• iPadOS (part of platforms)
• App (part of platforms)
• Randomizer (part of supportedElements)

I'm creating this issue to start documenting options for how we could implement support for commenting or replying to comments from the podcasts page.

Related issues, PRs and general links

• PR #218 - Implemented the first version of showing comments
• Issue podStation/podStation#304 - Collection of information about using AP Client-to-Server (C2S)
• https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/using-activitypub-for-podcast-comments-exploration/1909/10

Using the podping history end point it should be possible to add a nice display of the last 5 times the show has sent out a podping.

https://plug-play.imwatsi.com/docs#/podping/get_podping_url_latest_api_podping_history_latest_url_get

curl -X 'GET' \
  'https://plug-play.imwatsi.com/api/podping/history/latest/url?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeed.nashownotes.com%2Frss.xml' \
  -H 'accept: application/json'

If you want you can link the trx_id to a page like this:

https://hive.ausbit.dev/tx/105bddefd3fd8c17f571b7dca533efe0f8b4c9c7

{
 "feed_updates": [
   {
     "trx_id": "665fb01cea61eb3894e32b89d0c7e7ade8b0117f",
     "block_num": 63400457,
     "created": "2022-04-10T21:01:00"
   },
   {
     "trx_id": "7e9d72ccbcffdebb60cfc35ceb34702e9e92bf62",
     "block_num": 63400320,
     "created": "2022-04-10T20:54:09"
   },
   {
     "trx_id": "6d249d5e1f889bd3b379372527ad4d60b58c2a93",
     "block_num": 63306253,
     "created": "2022-04-07T14:17:57"
   },
   {
     "trx_id": "fd6d0f6cc02f05decafcad26681c1d2d3347c60b",
     "block_num": 63306139,
     "created": "2022-04-07T14:12:12"
   },
   {
     "trx_id": "105bddefd3fd8c17f571b7dca533efe0f8b4c9c7",
     "block_num": 63195260,
     "created": "2022-04-03T17:32:15"
   }
 ]
}

the value of datetime attribute, formatted the same is the value of the time tag, better be ISO format.

probably this as well as this line could be fixed with toISOString

Currently it is possible to link to a whole podcast landing page. e.g. https://podcastindex.org/podcast/920666

It would be great to have a share link for each dedicated episode [maybe even with time stamps].

And even better if there would be a link preview of the podcast content so that in the external site the show can be played too.

This is likely a regression of #236.

VM32:1 Uncaught (in promise) SyntaxError: Unexpected non-whitespace character after JSON at position 1574
at JSON.parse ()
at n (bundle.js:6:867129)

First of all, what you've built is absolutely incredible, great work, thank You!

podcastindex.org has the web player, and it would be great if the listener can pay those nodes in the value field even when listening through this web client.

Adding a browser lightning wallet to the website is certainly a bad idea.

However, there are browser extension lightning wallets [usually connected to a remote ln node], which can pick up an invoice displayed on a website, then pop-up the browser extension for user confirmation. Optionally the user can also set an upfront agreed upon "allowance" to a certain website.

This works with the WebLN stack, which is "a way of interacting with a user's Lightning node via the browser." I'm not too familiar with the nuances of the spec, but I think it would require little work [non-dev-speak] on the podcastindex.org site, other than displaying the ln keysend invoice in the particular WebLN format. I am also not sure how to optimize this for streaming payments.

@bumi might know more details on how to get it done.

Supports:

• podcast:person
• podcast:guid
• podcast:episode,
• podcast:season,
• podcast:transcript

References:

• https://podcastindex.social/@jamescridland/107869243664711188
• https://blog.sounder.fm/efficiency-updates-transcription-podcast-index-and-adc/

Adding AntennaPod to the apps page I thought we held the open source podcast manager app monopoly and was surprised to see other 'apps'. One I tried appeared to be a web app - what a relief :p

As (hopefully) more and more platforms and apps integrate with Podcast Index, it will be helpful as a user to filter for a specific type you're looking for.
I wanted to propose therefore a new 'type' column with the following possible values:

• webapp
• Android app
• iOS app
• Desktop application
• Hosting platform
• Directory

Desktop could ofc be specified further (Linux/Windows/Mac), but may be unnecessary for the (long) time being.

Then filtering based on this column could be added as a later improvement. For now it'd already be great to start collecting structured data.

A minor complaint. This American Life link has been dead since September

Scroll for TL;DR
I just thought this was at least worth discussing if it has not been already.
Thanks for the hard work and the feedback!

This is my first contribution to Podcasting 2.0, and while it's not a technical solution, it has to do with branding which one could argue is equally as important.

Through the eyes of a newcomer to podcastindex.org, one of the first things that is noticeable on the page is the "Recent Podcasts" widget (section?) which allows a person to browse and discover seemingly random episodes from podcasts contained inside the index. I found myself going from excitement to subtle confusion when I couldn't decide whether or not these episodes were actually randomly chosen or specifically featured by the admin of podcastindex. I leaned more toward thinking these episodes were chosen by the admin at first glance despite the fact that the word "featured" is not present but realized after refreshing the page that there is some sort of randomization going on.

At this point it hit me that a true newcomer might automatically assume that these podcasts were featured on purpose. This has the potential to reflect negatively on the project if the wrong type of podcast shows up and is terrible in one way or another (either bad production or something generally offensive).

If these podcasts are actually random, I suggest that the words "Recent Podcasts" be changed to "Pod Roulette" or "Random Podcasts". This way if anything shows up that isn't desired, the newcomer knows that it has nothing to do with the admin or the project as a whole. I think small changes like this go a long way to make the experience better and clearly understood by anyone who lands on the page for the first time.

TL;DR: "Recent Podcasts" on the official project website may make it appear there are specially featured podcasts instead of randomly selected podcasts. Change wording to better represent what is actually being shown such as "Pod Roulette", "Random Podcasts" or "Random Recent Podcasts".

See #218 (comment).

Low priority. It is only a sanity check and it is not failing when all is working.

@daveajones , you can assign this one to me.

Currently the only way to comment on the podcasts in the podcast index is to copy the link of the post and use it to find it in the instance where the user has and account.

The only way to get the original post link, currently, is to copy it from the timestamp. Having a link to the post/comment is a comment UX practice, but it is kind of a hidden feature, as it is not that intuitive.

I suggest that we add a more clear indication on how to open the original post or copy the post link.
A common icon for opening a link in another domain is like the one shown in the screenshot below:

Related issues

• #233

Links and References

• Matodon thread - https://social.oberhauser.space/@obale/109961887303322180

If you enter a # or a Hashtag like #hashtag into the search field the search doesn't return a result and the round thingy spins indefinitely. @daveajones on
Mastodon said something like the # doesn't get properly escaped.

Repro steps:

Visit podcastindex.org with javascript disabled (either by setting, or by a browser extension such as noscript)

Expected results

Some features may not be lit up, but site masthead, description, about page, and navigation links work. Site can be navigated to reach important pages such as API reference, github repos. A new user can tell what a "podcast index" is, in order to decide whether they want to light up the other features.

Observed results

Site is a blank white page with nothing on it.

When podcastindex.org started out back in September, the site was mostly HTML+CSS, and a non-JS user could tell what the site was about and navigate to other pages. The only thing that didn't work was the random-episode-player carousel.

Hello @daveajones ,

Can we commit package-lock.json? Without it the build is a bit flaky and can break when new versions of the dependencies are released, even when there is no code change in the project itself.

This is almost certainly not the right repo to file an issue in / channel of communication, so I would appreciate help finding the right one.

Regardless, I'm trying to figure out why no episodes are appearing for the following podcast:
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/4096769

At first I assumed it was just because there is some service that needs to download the audio files first, but it's been 48 hours, so now I'm thinking there may be something wrong with the feed. How do I go about debugging this?

This is a leftover of #218.
I left it out of that PR to minimize the introduction of dependencies.
See #218 (comment).
cc @nathangathright

See https://podcastindex.social/web/statuses/106161955683995651

This is the podcast https://podcastindex.org/podcast/573761

Sometimes I would like to send a pre-filtered URL to people, e,g, "This are the players that support sat streaming: ".

For that, it would be useful to represent the selected filters in the URL (i.e. as query parameters).

References:

• https://www.kindacode.com/article/react-router-uselocation-hook-tutorial-and-examples/
• https://thewebdev.info/2020/07/26/how-to-use-url-parameters-and-query-strings-with-react-router/

It seems that Society and Culture (77 and 78) give the same trend results.
All the best and thanks again for the database!

Could we have a contact field on the Apps page so we can go direct to the devs behind them?

My personal pref would be for the devs to list their podcastindex.social account names!

Sorry if this is the wrong repository to report, I'm not really sure where to report this.

We tried to add a podcast feed to podcastindex.org, but it seems to find no episodes.
Are podbean.com feeds not supported or is this a bug?

Podbean feed: https://feed.podbean.com/exercism/feed.xml
Podcastindex: https://podcastindex.org/podcast/5811797

@drunkplato Here is what the file contents will look like:

{
"feedCountTotal": "1,318,328",
"feedCount3days": "81,919",
"feedCount10days": "208,264",
"feedCount30days": "303,007",
"feedCount60days": "376,576"
}

Just a flat json object. stats.json

Put it anywhere in your directory structure that's best for your code and i'll just have a cron job update it regularly.

This is a leftover of #218.

Its been discussed on the mastodon and podcast that there is a request to have a page on podcastindex.org to view the podcast data.

Here are my thoughts about the features the page should have. Please add or suggest additional ideas below

• URL: podcastindex.org/podcast/
• Link to page from search results
• Display (at a minimum) the same fields shown in the results page
• Display the most recent episodes

Dependencies

• the content of the socialInteract tag must be returned by the API
  • Podcastindex-org/docs-api#91

Remarks

• Might be better if we implement a view for individual episodes

References

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/threadcap
• podStation/podStation#304

I am an owner and would like to remove this podcast because we changed my provider.

https://podcastindex.org/podcast/1194671

Thanks.

I don't yet know how to throw it in yet, but it seems that Podcast addict has Live Podcast (Podcasting 2.0)
https://podcastaddict.com/changelog/2023_1#section2

So an update to apps features is needed to show it.

Would be great if we could send out links to share specific episodes with each other.
Right now I can only link people to shows.

Is there an episode detail page I'm missing?

I see it has not been updated since Nov 6 as of now and the link for podcast episodes just seem to link to the jpeg for the logo.

Do "Value" and "Sat Streaming" indicate the same feature? If so, it would be good to standardize on one. (My preference would be "Value", but I am fine as long as there is one term in the UI.)

I see that both are allowed values in apps-schema.json. So, I guess a PR implementing this change would remove one of them, and edit apps.json into compliance.

Thoughts?

P.S. related, but probably deserves its own issue tracker: It would be nice to have hovertext over the element links with a brief description of what they are. Alternatively, a collapsed section of the page could provide a glossary.

Hi , when pasting an URL of a podcast page of Pi , I don’t see a preview. Are ‘Open Graph tags’ missing? On purpose?

Example: this url does not trigger Telegram to fetch and generate a preview.
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/1015378

I may be doing something wrong, but I can't get the API calls to work when running locally. I've created a .env file with my keys but it always fails.

Here is the error that is shown in the terminal after running yarn start

[HPM] Error occurred while trying to proxy request /api/recent/episodes?max=7 from localhost:9001 to http://localhost:5001 (ECONNREFUSED) (https://nodejs.org/api/errors.html#errors_common_system_errors)