Podcast OPML - change
Post categories: Radio
| 10:17 UK time, Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Just a quick note to say that the OPML formatted feed that we have available for our Podcasts is having a slight format change.
Because any change to the structure of an XML document like this will probably cause some minor headaches to you - we've set up a new feed in the new format, and kept the old one running for a while. This is notice that in a few weeks we'll simply redirect the old one to the new one.
The new feed is available here: https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/radio/opml/bbc_podcast_opml_v2.xml
A nice view of this can be seen via Optimal's OPML browser.
A summary of the changes between the old (v1) and the new (v2):
- We took out the top level 'BBC Station List' outline - it didn't make sense. So now the Radio Networks are the first thing in the XML.
- We changed the
outlinenode to better include the display name of the Radio network rather than the id - but kept the id for you in a new attribute callednetworkid. This makes it a bit more 'friendly' when just using a podcatcher that can directly read our OPML:- this (v1):
<outline text="radio2" fullname="BBC Radio 2"> - to this (v2):
<outline text="BBC Radio 2" fullname="BBC Radio 2" networkid="radio2">
- this (v1):
- We changed the title of the OPML document
for the same reason of 'friendliness' - from:
- this (v1):
BBC Podcast OPML - to this (v2):
BBC Radio Podcasts
- this (v1):
- We didn't change
outline/outline- the actual reference to the RSS feed for the podcasts. So you can be assured nothing changes there. As an example - here is a podcast outline picked from the latest feed - there is no difference from v1 to v2:- (v1):
<outline type="rss" imageHref="https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/assets/artwork/oddcast.jpg" xmlUrl="https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio2/oddcast/rss.xml" imageHrefTVSafe="" text="Alex Lester's Oddcast" keyname="oddcast" active="true" allow="all" networkName="" networkId="" typicalDurationMins="15" page="https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/lester/" flavour="Programme Highlights" rsstype="" rssenc="" language="en-gb" description="Alex Lester's latest musings on 'Alex World', featuring listener contributions, taken from his Best Time Of The Day show, broadcast weekdays on Radio 2, 2-5am." bbcgenres="Comedy & Quizzes|Entertainment"/> - (v2):
<outline type="rss" imageHref="https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/assets/artwork/oddcast.jpg" xmlUrl="https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio2/oddcast/rss.xml" imageHrefTVSafe="" text="Alex Lester's Oddcast" keyname="oddcast" active="true" allow="all" networkName="" networkId="" typicalDurationMins="15" page="https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/lester/" flavour="Programme Highlights" rsstype="" rssenc="" language="en-gb" description="Alex Lester's latest musings on 'Alex World', featuring listener contributions, taken from his Best Time Of The Day show, broadcast weekdays on Radio 2, 2-5am." bbcgenres="Comedy & Quizzes|Entertainment"/>
- (v1):
Comment number 1.
At 01:38 29th Apr 2010, Jules N wrote:Any chance of the new feed as a .opml one, as the xml isn't recognised by my Nokia 5800?
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Comment number 2.
At 14:18 3rd May 2010, Alan Ogilvie wrote:Ah yes, apologies for missing that one (we had it when it was originally launched).
Fixed. Now you can also request:
https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/radio/opml/bbc_podcast_opml_v2.opml
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At 21:06 4th May 2010, Jules N wrote:Cheers Alan
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Comment number 4.
At 13:56 10th May 2010, Gids wrote:Looks much better on my Nokia podcast directory browser, now displays the full station names. Thanks
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Comment number 5.
At 12:53 1st Sep 2010, Luke wrote:Thats Great, but why are there no entries for BBC 5 Live?
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