Jason (Podcast Guru)

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!

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.

@james@bne.social -> thanks for this, matches my thinking exactly.

https://podnews.net/article/podcast-app-revenue?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2026-07-24

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/

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

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.

@james@bne.social @algrid@podcastindex.social Should be fixed now! Sorry about that, I always forget.

FYI - we turned on our feed-ingester, pulling feeds as the come in via podping, so if you see our user agent banging your servers you'll know who it is.

@dave@podcastindex.social @james@bne.social @samsethi@podcastindex.social @merryoscar@podcastindex.social @adam@podcastindex.social looking into it.

@dave@podcastindex.social Are they generationg p2.0 compatible chapters, or is it only for their app?

Going to be one of those days.

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 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:

https://pypi.org/project/Faker/

@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.