Oh this is cool! I've been using AntennaPod for a few years because it was open source, but lately started having issues with the media session and was looking for an alternative.
Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source
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#72That'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: http…
This is great. I skimmed the code. I’ll have to check Spotify API to see if it’s possible to grab just podcasts from Spotify. Then I can try to see if I can do this stuff with another app. In general, happy to see this project for the ideas.
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#73That's insane. I've been holding back from using Pocket Casts precisely because there FOSS alternatives like Antennapod and Podverse - but I wasn't that happy with them. Props to Automattic for being an incredible force for good! Edit: Wow 12$/year is a nice price for the Plus plan (vs. Podverse's 3/month, though that's not terrible either). They just got themselves a new subscriber. I'd skip the trial if I could. Ta…
I completely missed the sell off from NPR to Automattic. Glad to see this news as a good omen. Hard to believe but I've been using this same app for 11 years now.
Automattic has been buying stuff up. Simplenote, Day One, Tumblr, this. I wonder if they’ll IPO when the IPO window opens up again.