There are some great docs here for using the API:
https://podcastindex-org.github.io/docs-api/#get-/search/byt...
The Podcast Index
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#22I'm building a language learning app based on podcasts and I used "The Podcast Index" first but, as I understand, The Podcast Index is not currently scraping Apple and many of the podcasts in their index are dead. For better or worse Apple podcasts is the "de facto" index of podcasts, so I had to build my own podcast index based on itunes data. You can see a comparison of the different indexes (indices?) at https://p…
I use podcast index exclusively for podcast search and I've never been unable to find a podcast I was looking for there (just my experience in having used it for years)
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#23What kinds of, well, censorship, is applied to the platform for a lack of a better word?
Maybe I wasn't able to scan the Terms of Service well enough, since I didn't see it defined there? They mention they can remove content there, but not why they would.
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#24What kinds of, well, censorship, is applied to the platform for a lack of a better word? Maybe I wasn't able to scan the Terms of Service well enough, since I didn't see it defined there? They mention they can remove content there, but not why they would.
The better word is "content policy"
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#25Really like what the Podcast Index is doing, especially with pushing Podcasting 2.0 (https://podcasting2.org/) and value for value! Just wish I could do v4v in currencies other than Bitcoin.
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#26What kinds of, well, censorship, is applied to the platform for a lack of a better word? Maybe I wasn't able to scan the Terms of Service well enough, since I didn't see it defined there? They mention they can remove content there, but not why they would.
The idea of the index is to prevent censorship
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#27Not really that useful if I can't sort based on last publication, nor see how many episodes a given podcast has published when searching.
The idea of the index is it acts as an API for apps to build search and other things on. It can do some searches but ya know what I mean.
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#28What kinds of, well, censorship, is applied to the platform for a lack of a better word? Maybe I wasn't able to scan the Terms of Service well enough, since I didn't see it defined there? They mention they can remove content there, but not why they would.
Anecdotal, but I know the guys behind this. They're about as much free speech absolutists as you'll find. They're not going to remove anything unless it presents a large legal problem for them not to.
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#29I'm building a language learning app based on podcasts and I used "The Podcast Index" first but, as I understand, The Podcast Index is not currently scraping Apple and many of the podcasts in their index are dead. For better or worse Apple podcasts is the "de facto" index of podcasts, so I had to build my own podcast index based on itunes data. You can see a comparison of the different indexes (indices?) at https://p…
I use podcast index exclusively for podcast search and I've never been unable to find a podcast I was looking for there (just my experience in having used it for years)
My personal experience is, the second one I tried gave me a miss.