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SamTV12345 / PodFetch

A sleek and efficient podcast downloader.
https://samtv12345.github.io/PodFetch
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Update podcasts without visiting the page. #603

Open Ethanol6 opened 8 months ago

Ethanol6 commented 8 months ago

Clear and concise description of the problem

The automatic podcast update option says it updates automatically when the page is visited. This means that podcast apps that use PodFetch don't get updated podcasts unless you open the page.

My use case is such that I never open the podcast page. Even if I did, I would need to open 25+ pages just so AntennaPod on my phone can download new episodes before I head to work.

Manually navigating to the page just so it can automatically update seems counter-intuitive.

Suggested solution

I think it would make sense if automatic update was truly automatic, requiring no navigation to the pages at all. If you choose to manually update podcasts there should be a global update button somewhere easy to access that would update all podcasts with a single click. Another option could be that podcasts do not update automatically unless the global update button is pressed OR you navigate to the page in which case each podcast is updated only as you visit the page.

Alternative

No response

Additional context

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Validations

SamTV12345 commented 7 months ago

Clear and concise description of the problem

The automatic podcast update option says it updates automatically when the page is visited. This means that podcast apps that use PodFetch don't get updated podcasts unless you open the page.

My use case is such that I never open the podcast page. Even if I did, I would need to open 25+ pages just so AntennaPod on my phone can download new episodes before I head to work.

Manually navigating to the page just so it can automatically update seems counter-intuitive.

Suggested solution

I think it would make sense if automatic update was truly automatic, requiring no navigation to the pages at all. If you choose to manually update podcasts there should be a global update button somewhere easy to access that would update all podcasts with a single click. Another option could be that podcasts do not update automatically unless the global update button is pressed OR you navigate to the page in which case each podcast is updated only as you visit the page.

Alternative

No response

Additional context

No response

Validations

  • [x] Follow our Code of Conduct
  • [x] Read the Contributing Guide.
  • [x] Check that there isn't already an issue that request the same feature to avoid creating a duplicate.

I'm not sure. Could be that the option is misleading. The backend fetches in your specified time interval new episodes.

ch8zer commented 7 months ago

No @Ethanol6 is correct, podcasts only update if I navigate to “all subscriptions” and then click the refresh arrow next to the title “all subscriptions”.

Ethanol6 commented 7 months ago

When I visit the Podfetch home page the "latest episodes" list show episodes that are days, weeks, months old. There are no episodes listed that are newer than the last time I visited the podcast page in Podfetch. I also have automatic update turned on. The option is supposed to "PodFetch will automatically check for new episodes when the page is visited." However, upon visiting a specific podcast page or the "All Subscriptions" page the podcast(s) doesn't update after waiting several minutes and refreshing the page. I must always click the update icon next to the podcast title (or update them all from the "All Subsctiptions" page) and refresh the webpage in order to update the podcast.

The polling interval is set to 60 in my docker-compose file but nothing seems to suggest it actually is refreshing every 60 minutes. Using Antennapod to fetch episodes from the Podfetch feed only has episodes that also appear in the "latest episodes" list and those can be weeks old.

SamTV12345 commented 1 month ago

Has this somehow fixed itself? I've got PodFetch deployed on my Raspberry PI. Unfortunately I didn't have time to listen to a podcast for a while but it still shows me all podcasts with their latest update.

Ethanol6 commented 1 month ago

Not exactly. On the Home screen I do see the most recent episodes of only one podcast. That podcast is whichever one Podfetch calls number 1.

On the All Subscriptions page the URL for that podcast is server.com/ui/podcasts/1/episodes

The other podcasts were last updated months ago, only showing up on the Home page when manually refreshed.

Ethanol6 commented 1 month ago

Interesting development. My podcasts were all imported from an OPML file exported from PodGrab. I deleted all my podcasts and data and manually re-added them using the Podfetch interface (using the iTunes database) and it seems like the podcasts are staying up to date now.