For the last 6 months or so I’ve been working on Pinepods. I have never been able to find the perfect self-hosted podcast app that I wanted to use. podgrab’s player is rather lackluster and misses a lot of features that I would like.
With Pinepods you can play, download, and keep track of podcasts you enjoy. It allows for searching new podcasts using The Podcast Index or Itunes and provides a modern looking UI to browse through shows and episodes. In addition, Pinepods provides simple user managment and can be used by multiple users at once using a browser or app version. Everything is saved into a Mysql database including user settings, podcasts and episodes. It’s fully self-hosted, and I provide an option to use a hosted API or you can also get one from the podcast API and use your own. There’s even many different themes to choose from! Everything is fully dockerized and I provide a simple guide found below explaining how to install Pinepods on your own system.
There’s also lots of modern features like MFA, self-service password resets, and some Podcast 2.0 functionality (more to come)
In addition to all that, I’ve built a client version of the app that can connect via API to your home server over something like a reverse proxy or tailscale.
Pinepods just had it’s first beta release with all the basic functionality implemented. Currently, you’re likely to experience issues, but I certainly invite pull requests or opening issues if you have the time. You can also get setup assistance on the discord server. I invite you to try it out!
Check out the official site here:
Github here:
https://github.com/madeofpendletonwool/PinePods
Getting started instructions:
It looks like Pinepods does not support the GPodder API as I cannot find any mention of it on the links in the post. I assume this is intentional and there are no plans to support this in the future. Is that accurate? Supporting the GPodder API would help integrate Pinepods with some existing podcast clients and/or other podcast services instead of waiting for Pinepods to rollout features found on existing services.
Regardless, Pinepods looks nice! Hopefully it will continue to grow - I’m surprised at the lack of (modern, functional, and fully-featured) self-hosted, privacy focused options for podcasts.
Don’t the majority of podcast clients utilize the podcast RSS feed directly? Why would adding support for a specific app’s API make it easier to integrate with existing clients? Wouldn’t republishing a new RSS feed that points to self hosted media make it work immediately with the majority of clients instead of just one or ones that support the gpodder API? I didn’t even see any API documentation in my admittedly shallow search of their site
The gpodder API is for syncing subscriptions, queues, episodes listened to, and where you are in a current episode. The podcasts themselves are still from the RSS feeds. The point of the gpodder API is that if you make a podcast app that supports it, users of the gpodder desktop app, the AntennaPod android app, and others can keep the apps they like for the devices and instances they like to use them for while adding your new app in for the instances where it makes more sense, all while having their experience synced across apps and devices.
Ah makes sense. Thanks!