mastodon 4.7.3CEO / Co-Founder / Dev / Janitor for Podcast Guru
Re Amy's response to @james@bne.social
"Creators don’t need podcast apps to get a cut."
Sure then. Go build your own app, hosting provider and a search engine while you're at it, with your own funds. Then you'll get the transparency you insist you are owed.
My labor isn't free.
I now have my own podcast database, started building it Nov of last year, just finished the last bit of work today.
Think twice before doing this. I have a whole new level of respect for sir @dave@podcastindex.social!
@james@bne.social -> thanks for this, matches my thinking exactly.
New Android release is live, one day I'll replace this horrible WP site.
https://podcastguru.io/podcast-guru-android/podcast-guru-2-3-2-release-notes-android/
Finally made a couple updates to our boost server.
The links will now look nice if you load them in a browser (accept text/html vs application/json)
https://boost.podcastguru.io/boost/KhrpuJh7
And for @james@bne.social if you append ?format=boostbox it does what you'd expect (returns json in the boostbox format).
@james@bne.social @algrid@podcastindex.social @merryoscar@podcastindex.social I plan on adding a shim of sorts, and extra param that will just change the format to match this spec. This is high up on my todo list.
They want better app metrics for their ad-tech but the only "app" in their council is Spotify. 😆
There's a right way to do this IMO, but this is not it.
https://podnews.net/press-release/alliance-for-measurement-in-podcasting
We just deployed our boost-meta service for Podcast Guru, the app will go into beta using it very soon. But it's a REST service where you can retrieve payment stats + TLV details via a simple GET request. I've been working in isolation too much and wasn't really aware that everyone else was trying to solve this problem too. Will consider our own API / endpoint alpha state and hopefully we'll all coalesce on a working standard.
@dave@podcastindex.social @merryoscar@podcastindex.social @bdentzy@mstdn.plus @samsethi@podcastindex.social @algrid@podcastindex.social In theory if your main enclosure is HLS -i think- it would work now, but we really need to add altEnclosure support to do it right.
Going to be one of those days.
@dave@podcastindex.social Someone has been trying to scrape us for the past day or so, but they haven't figured out they are being rate limited. Amatuers. 😆
@dave@podcastindex.social Haha, been there. There's even a python library for this:
@james@bne.social @algrid@podcastindex.social Should be fixed now! Sorry about that, I always forget.
@dave@podcastindex.social Are they generationg p2.0 compatible chapters, or is it only for their app?
