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Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source

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Re: Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source

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Post by downwithdisease »

JulianWasTaken wrote: post #4

That's a nice and unexpected bit of news for the day. I've been using Pocket Casts for awhile, it's indeed a very nice app, and other than the UI tumult from a few years back has been pretty reliable. I was a bit disappointed recently to discover that it doesn't offer a way to export data from it, which is pretty bad (i.e. your listening history and starred episodes, not your list of subscribed podcasts). Hopefully i…

> I was a bit disappointed recently to discover that it doesn't offer a way to export data from it, which is pretty bad (i.e. your listening history and starred episodes, not your list of subscribed podcasts).

Maybe overlooked? Settings -> Import & Export OPML. Can't recall if it includes listening history and starred episodes but subscriptions for sure. This is the case for Android -- can't speak for iOS.

Re: Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source

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Post by vxNsr »

downwithdisease wrote: post #21
JulianWasTaken wrote: post #4

That's a nice and unexpected bit of news for the day. I've been using Pocket Casts for awhile, it's indeed a very nice app, and other than the UI tumult from a few years back has been pretty reliable. I was a bit disappointed recently to discover that it doesn't offer a way to export data from it, which is pretty bad (i.e. your listening history and starred episodes, not your list of subscribed podcasts). Hopefully i…

> I was a bit disappointed recently to discover that it doesn't offer a way to export data from it, which is pretty bad (i.e. your listening history and starred episodes, not your list of subscribed podcasts). Maybe overlooked? Settings -> Import & Export OPML. Can't recall if it includes listening history and starred episodes but subscriptions for sure. This is the case for Android -- can't speak for iOS.

OPML usually is just your list of subscriptions, OP specifically wanted everything else, I don’t know of any app that shares that unfortunately.

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Post by pixelatedindex »

Selfish, but I was mad at myself that they made it free just a couple or so months after I paid for it. As a college student, I resented them a whole bunch for it because I was on the fence for a little over a year before pulling the trigger only for them to make it free (and I didn’t feel like I could have got my moneys worth because of that). If only I had waited a smidgeon longer!

Glad they are making it open source now though.

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Post by kreddor »

aussiesnack wrote: post #17
no-dr-onboard wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good to know I’m not alone. I’ve used it since (according to the app) 1/14/17 and have amassed 51d 7h of listening time. I feel like I’ve used it since around 2014 or so, but I could be wrong. I know somewhere around that time there was a platform switch and stats got lost. In any event I was overjoyed when they grandfathered me to a lifetime subscription after switching to a paid model. I truly, deeply appreciate th…

June 2015 in my case, and a slightly terrifying 263d 21h

Wow, thought mine was high. I have been listening since October 2015, 114 days. I must confess that sometimes I fall asleep while listening.

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Post by chickenimprint »

pixelatedindex wrote: post #23

Selfish, but I was mad at myself that they made it free just a couple or so months after I paid for it. As a college student, I resented them a whole bunch for it because I was on the fence for a little over a year before pulling the trigger only for them to make it free (and I didn’t feel like I could have got my moneys worth because of that). If only I had waited a smidgeon longer! Glad they are making it open sour…

At least we got grandfathered into the premium plan. 5€ for something that is usually 10€/year.

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Post by djhworld »

aussiesnack wrote: post #17
no-dr-onboard wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good to know I’m not alone. I’ve used it since (according to the app) 1/14/17 and have amassed 51d 7h of listening time. I feel like I’ve used it since around 2014 or so, but I could be wrong. I know somewhere around that time there was a platform switch and stats got lost. In any event I was overjoyed when they grandfathered me to a lifetime subscription after switching to a paid model. I truly, deeply appreciate th…

June 2015 in my case, and a slightly terrifying 263d 21h

October 2015 for me, with 101d 15h

Definitely been one of my most used apps over the years!

Re: Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source

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Post by DanEEStar »

JulianWasTaken wrote: post #4

That's a nice and unexpected bit of news for the day. I've been using Pocket Casts for awhile, it's indeed a very nice app, and other than the UI tumult from a few years back has been pretty reliable. I was a bit disappointed recently to discover that it doesn't offer a way to export data from it, which is pretty bad (i.e. your listening history and starred episodes, not your list of subscribed podcasts). Hopefully i…

Pocketcasts has an API with a history endpoint, which I scrape regularly: https://api.pocketcasts.com/user/history

With the help of the web-player and the developer console I could copy the necessary auth-headers.

I built a little deno project recently which scrapes my Spotify and PocketCasts history regularly and stores the history to a Supabase PostgreSQL database.

So I have access to my own listening history: https://github.com/DanEEStar/listening-history-deno

Re: Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source

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Post by natebc »

aussiesnack wrote: post #17
no-dr-onboard wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good to know I’m not alone. I’ve used it since (according to the app) 1/14/17 and have amassed 51d 7h of listening time. I feel like I’ve used it since around 2014 or so, but I could be wrong. I know somewhere around that time there was a platform switch and stats got lost. In any event I was overjoyed when they grandfathered me to a lifetime subscription after switching to a paid model. I truly, deeply appreciate th…

June 2015 in my case, and a slightly terrifying 263d 21h

Right there with you. June 2015 266d 10h
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