Check that a given RSS feed contains at least one <enclosure> tag before allowing it to be added

[WVJaguar]

I used the rss feed shown on the web page https://timharford.com/2006/09/rss-feed-of-undercover-economist/:

https://timharford.com/2006/09/rss-feed-of-undercover-economist/ (At the top of this page is: "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.")

The subscription was accepted and appears in the list.

[ribbons]

Apologies if I'm missing something but the RSS feed linked on that page ( https://www.ft.com/undercover-economist?format=rss ) appears to be linking to written articles instead of being a podcast feed. As podcast feeds are just a kind of RSS feed which reference audio files it isn't completely surprising that Radio Downloader accepts it happily.

Perhaps Radio Downloader should check to see if a feed contains any audio enclosures before it accepts it as a valid podcast, what do you think?

[WVJaguar]

Thank you, Matt, for pointing out that articles are involved. How can I determine that audio files are involved from the source code?

Since Radio Downloader is all about audio, perhaps it should check.

Cheers...Robin

[ribbons]

A quick way to check would be to search for <enclosure in the feed XML as a podcast feed would always contain those tags. You can then look to see the contents to make sure they are audio files instead of video (although I'm guessing that video-only feeds aren't that common).

I'll re-purpose this issue to cover adding a check to see if a feed contains enclosure tags before allowing it to be added.

[WVJaguar]

Thank you, Matt. I will follow your advice in future.

Cheers...Robin