App devs: just watch the Podping firehose
ToolsPodping (instead of polling/API)
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if that's all your need, then the API for you don't need the API, just use piping. And everybody sees the feed.
Episode 149: Scrape my JSON (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:25:57 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Dave tells app developers who only need update notifications to skip the API and watch Podping. A $5 Linode can run a push-notification server for an app.
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Episode 188: Nothing Doodle (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:50:28 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
the first recommendation would be watch pod ping yourself, for sure, because it's not hard to do. It's just one it's a one liner, you know, in Python, uh, Python script,
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Episode 193: Helpful Little Wizards (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:11:15 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
Pod ping is under you. Is an underutilized resource. There are hundreds of 1000s of feeds being sent through pod ping every second it seems. Yes, yeah. So if you want to find out, if you want to find out what's going on in the world of pub, of podcasting? Yeah, you just, you just look at that.
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