Importing podcasts

omriceren
For the last few years Zotero has been able to scrape metadata for podcasts from Stitcher (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/88221/import-podcasts). Recently Stitcher announced that they were closing shop at the end of summer. Is there another podcast site that Zotero speaks?
  • adamsmith
    Not currently, no. Suggestions welcome
  • mbd25
    pocket cast is a great app. Not sure how it would work on the web
  • mbd25
    google podcast is another possibility
  • adamsmith
    Pocket cast has a web app, it looks like, but the whole thing is subscription based: no objection to that for a good app, but I'm not going to get a subscription to write support for this, also since that means it's not usable as a general source

    I'll look at google podcast, though I recall that being pretty ugly from the perspective of getting podcast metadata
  • adamsmith
    Actually, Google Podcast looks like it'll work pretty nicely
  • thechadwick
    The only other one that comes to my mind is https://podcastaddict.com/ as it has a decent podcatcher for android and a web player. I used it before google podcasts enabled the private rss feed functionality (patreon) but switched to google after getting a new phone because the app had gotten much better. No ios support and the web player doesn't sync with the app for playback (yet at least) but it was the next best thing I used.
  • nhan000
    Google Podcasts will go away next year https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/thread/236590252.
  • adamsmith
    Just saw. Sigh. Not sure where else to get podcast data then? We can look at YouTube Music?
  • nhan000
    Is there a go-to place to import podcast episodes?
  • adamsmith
    Certainly nothing we support currently. As per the above, I'm happy to look at this if there's a prominent platform with a reasonable website, but podcasting appears to be moving towards an appified walled garden (spotify, apple podcast...). Very unfortunate.
  • dstillman
    Apple Podcasts has a web version:

    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id201671138

    Most podcast apps just use Apple's directory (which they've been a pretty good steward of over the years), so this should have most podcasts. Not sure if there's any structured metadata available from that site, but there's some parsable data (e.g., host) in the page.

    (It's also possible to get a small amount of structured metadata based on the ID from the URL — e.g., curl https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=201671138 — but that doesn't seem very useful. As you can see, that's missing the host data that's available on the website.)
  • adamsmith
    oh, I should have checked that; not sure why I assumed that only existed as an app. That'll absolutely work -- I think scraping will be quite sufficient to get us the basics. Stitcher wasn't all that great, either.
  • richardjacton
    The podcast index https://podcastindex.org/ has an API https://podcastindex-org.github.io/docs-api/#overview that you can use to get metadata. They've also been behind the new podcast 2.0 namespace that adds things like proper transcript support and many other things.
  • dstillman
    edited 25 days ago
    That seems like a cool project, but I suspect it's less useful. At least for mainstream podcasts that are submitting to Apple and not to them, they seem to have the data that's in the feed and/or the iTunes Search API, but not the host data and some other metadata that Apple Podcasts has.
  • richardjacton
    That information can now be included in the feed through the podcasting 2.0 namespace https://podcasting2.org/podcast-namespace/tags/person not sure what adoption of the standard is like and knowing apple they won't care what anyone else is doing but several things in the namespace have been picked up by other podcast hosting providers.
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