With Google news and Bing news you can "ping" the mothership and the will download the feed instantly.
Is there a programmatic way to inform itunes, that there is a new episode at my podcast feed. Usually it takes 24 hour. I know that.
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i need to find a way to be able to get sound file from an podcast rss feed and automatically put it into a transcribing software (preferably free). Alternatively I need a way to check if a new video has been uploaded to a channel and transcibe it.
I tried Zapier but it didn't quite integrate with a transcription software called Grain.co alternatively otter.ai would work too.
We are trying to develop a utility to upload GSV tours that consist of a series of 12K and 14K 360 photos shot along each route. The GPS data is recorded with a GPS logger. For efficiency, we would like to convert each tour/series into a video and upload it using the Google Street View Publish API. We've found where it explains the metadata track (camm) required for the video. However, We have searched the API documentation and cannot seem to find where it explains how to upload the actual videos. Can anyone help? Thank you.
With SoundCloud's recent update showing RSS Downloads as a separate statistic, I am not able to find a way to get this stat via the API.
Looking at the HTTP API Reference for Tracks, I can see options for:
comment_count
download_count
playback_count
favoritings_count
Is there an option to get the RSS download count? Has the documentation just not been updated? If this isn't currently an option, will it be added?
On May 8th 2015, I checked the API via the developer console on Soundcloud and did not see any way to view the RSS download count, unfortunately.
Looks like the stat-reporting direction at SoundCloud has changed, and RSS plays will be part of the overall play number and broken-out in other ways.
https://www.soundcloudcommunity.com/soundcloud/topics/new-rss-stats-need-to-be-reflect-in-total-plays
So, I'm trying to implement a solution to a problem that I posted on superuser.
What I'm trying to do
I want to write a (Windows) application to synchronize podcast subscriptions in iTunes (and possibly iPhone/iPod touch apps, though I'll ignore them for now) between multiple computers that are using the same iTunes account.
How I'm planning on doing it
My initial thought was to do the following:
1) Grab the list of all podcast subscriptions from iTunes on computer A
2) Do some synching, giving new podcast urls to a program on computer B
3) Subscribe to the new podcasts in iTunes with computer B
I think I could do all this by parsing the ITL file, which is where subscription information seem to be stored. I haven't been able to find any documentation for this, though.
Maybe I'm going about this wrong and using the iTunes COM interface would be a decent way to grab the list of subscribed podcasts (step 1) and then subscribing to them (step 3). Is there a smarter way to go about doing this?
Summary
Before I reinvent the wheel, is there already a solution for synching podcast subscriptions among multiple computers?
What is the most appropriate method for grabbing a list of podcasts that iTunes is subscribed to?
What is the most appropriate method of subscribing iTunes to new podcasts?
As a note, I e-mailed Apple's Developer Support with pretty much the same questions, but apparently asking questions about documentation/API doesn't count as technical support.
Thanks,
On OS X there is no way to get iTunes' list of podcasts. You can ask for podcast tracks (and kind of arrange them by album name), but iTunes will not tell you anything about the actual podcasts themselves (URLs, status, name etc.).
I have zero experience of iTunes on Windows, but I'd be very surprised if the API were more comprehensive than the OS X one.
How can I get the RSS feed URL for the iTunes podcasts available? I want a feed which would list down all the podcasts present on iTunes. Is that possible?
Thanks.
There are a few options available these days:
iTunes RSS Feed Generator A list of the top 100 podcasts in RSS format, no authentication required.
iTunes Search API Apple has an API for all iTunes content including podcasts. JSON format, no authentication required, rate-limited to 20 calls per minute.
Enterprise Partner Feed Lets you download the entire iTunes database direct from Apple so you can perform unlimited searches from your own server. They provide an importer script to handle updating your database each day. You'll need to apply for a login to access the files.
As with many things Apple creates, a very limited set of functionality is exposed to third party developers. Currently, generating RSS feeds of podcasts in the iTunes Music Store does not appear to be supported. You can generate a limited set of RSS feeds for information in the iTunes store, but podcasts are not included.
You can generate these feeds using Apple's iTunes Music Store RSS Generator.
Furthermore, this really isn't the type of thing RSS is designed to do. The list of podcasts in iTunes is enormous, and wrapping each podcast in XML tags would create an even more enormous file. RSS is best used when you need to present a list of the most recent updates to something. Encoding the entire iTumes podcast catalog in RSS doesn't fit that catagory. You'll also notice that Apple's feed generator only allows you to create feeds of the few most recent or top songs, not the entire catalog.