marekhrabe
commented
4 years ago Examples of other providers we don't yet support:
- https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/michael-hobbes/youre-wrong-about
- https://overcast.fm/itunes665149280/sawbones-a-marital-tour-of-misguided-medicine
- https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS95MUxGX3NuMg
And some Apple examples:
jeherve
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Despite the block advertising only RSS feed support for URLs, every testing session revealed people using all sorts of different links - usually to web pages, instead of feeds.
We have adjusted the Podcast Player block to support any oEmbed URL and convert Podcast Player into an appropriate embed block of those services. This covers popular podcasting services like Spotify, Soundcloud or even Youtube.
We also have an automatic detection of linked RSS feed so if you put a URL into the block for webpage that declares RSS support (
<link type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" …), we will try to find a podcast in linked RSS.Apple Podcasts seem to support none of the methods above and they are pretty popular.
Describe the solution you'd like
Since Apple Podcasts are still likely a mirror of some external RSS, maybe we can find the original RSS URL in the markup of that Apple Podcast page.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Additional context
It came up in testing multiple times. The last time was p7DVsv-8oS-p2#comment-28532