samjam48
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4 years ago @roychowd looked into a way to scrape data of main important podcasts from iTunes. Worth keeping note of for future.
Open samjam48 opened 4 years ago
samjam48
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4 years ago @roychowd looked into a way to scrape data of main important podcasts from iTunes. Worth keeping note of for future.
To get all podcasts in the app we need to make requests to a podcast catalogue API. I guess iTunes is the best but I've also heard good things about the listen notes api
Listen notes API - https://www.listennotes.com/api/
iTunes search API - https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/iTuneSearchAPI/Searching.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40017632-CH5-SW2
[ ] - Check out the documentation of both and decide relating to amount of usage, costs and size of available data (or just go with iTunes and don't bother looking)
[ ] - Search by top ranking podcasts in charts, top rated, most played
[ ] - Search by genre
[ ] - Search by name
[ ] - related podcasts to current podcast (when you view a podcast you can see what other podcasts user normally listen to, could be useful)
Free audiobooks API - https://librivox.org/api/info (old books that are in the public domain)
Note iTunes "The Search API is limited to approximately 20 calls per minute (subject to change). If you require heavier usage, we suggest you consider using our Enterprise Partner Feed (EPF). If you wish to access content on our EPF, please review iTunes Affliate Resources for more information." I can't see any cost details so I guess I'll enquire. It appears you can access audiobooks as well through it which is cool.
Listennotes API is free for 5000 calls a month and then becomes paid. So easier for development but i guess 20 calls a minute isn't that bad for development.