KB's RSS Generator for Podcasts

KB's RSS feed generator for podcasts

To make standard RSS feeds, use this version.

I need to define my RSS channel too

If you are starting from scratch, you will need to make your RSS channel. You only need to do this once for each podcast (not each episode), and when it's done you'll only need to make your items/episodes.

As defined in the specification, a podcast's channel must have the title, description, image, language, category and <itunes:explicit> elements, and at least one item:

Podcast/Channel data Title of the podcast Podcast Author(s) Link to the podcast (if it has a website or similar) Link to the .xml file where this feed will be available (recommended) Description Image: Image URL Image size (must be square, if equal to 3000px you can leave it blank) Image description Language This podcast is explicit Available categories Categories or tags (comma separated) Managing Editor email (not recommended) Web Master email (not recommended) Hours where channel won't be updated in GMT (not recommended) Days where channel won't be updated (not recommended) Time to live (ttl): how many minutes the channel can be cached before refreshing from the source (not recommended)

As defined in the specification, <item> elements should be inside the <channel> tag, after all its other elements, and their order is not important. However, I recommend ordering items by date, keeping newer ones near the top, just to be consistent. There's no real limit to the number of items that can be present in a feed, so don't limit yourself if not needed, but I've read that if your feed updates frequently or has many items, keeping the 20-100 most recent ones is a good range to shoot for.

As defined in the specification, there must be at least one item, and it must contain at least a title, enclosure (the file for the podcast) and guid (basically a link or a unique identifier for the episode). I recommend including all of these (except stated otherwise):

Item/Article data Title Link to the article Description or summary Episode file URL (goes through 3rd party proxy)

Or if you get an error, also use:

Episode file (doesn't get uploaded anywhere)

Result

If you don't want to use the current date, please change the <pubDate> tag with a RFC 2822 date. You can use timestampgenerator.

TODO/Future enhancements (in order of importance):

✓ DONE! Channel/Podcast definition supported
✓ DONE! Make basic copy of the generator and start modifying to make it usable for podcasts
✓ DONE! Support enclosures fully (via proxy; may need a proxy change, but the infrastructure is built)

Privacy notice: This demo runs entirely within your browser. In other words, no data is sent to me, the code is sent to your browser and runs locally. You could theoretically load the page, cut your network connection and then start it.