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I'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…
Isn’t the entire idea of the podcast index that they aren’t relying on a single platform for their source of truth? Podcasts are decentralized by design so in theory all links to podcasts should be scrape-able in some way (just as Google scrapes websites). One of the sites the podcast index should scrape is Apple, but it should by no means be limited to a single platform.
Full disclosure, I work for a company that provides a paywall to podcasters. (Among other things.)
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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.
I'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…
Really 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.
It's simply that the podcaster provides something valuable to you with their podcast and you're expected to return an equal amount of value back to them in whatever form you choose. It could be a Paypal payment, cool artwork for the show, topic research for the show, or whatever value you can contribute back.
Check out value4value.info for a more detailed explanation
I'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…