Update podcasts without visiting the page. about podfetch HOT 3 OPEN

Clear and concise description of the problem

The automatic podcast update option says it updates automatically when the page is visited. This means that podcast apps that use PodFetch don't get updated podcasts unless you open the page.

My use case is such that I never open the podcast page. Even if I did, I would need to open 25+ pages just so AntennaPod on my phone can download new episodes before I head to work.

Manually navigating to the page just so it can automatically update seems counter-intuitive.

Suggested solution

I think it would make sense if automatic update was truly automatic, requiring no navigation to the pages at all. If you choose to manually update podcasts there should be a global update button somewhere easy to access that would update all podcasts with a single click. Another option could be that podcasts do not update automatically unless the global update button is pressed OR you navigate to the page in which case each podcast is updated only as you visit the page.

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I'm not sure. Could be that the option is misleading. The backend fetches in your specified time interval new episodes.

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No @Ethanol6 is correct, podcasts only update if I navigate to “all subscriptions” and then click the refresh arrow next to the title “all subscriptions”.

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When I visit the Podfetch home page the "latest episodes" list show episodes that are days, weeks, months old. There are no episodes listed that are newer than the last time I visited the podcast page in Podfetch. I also have automatic update turned on. The option is supposed to "PodFetch will automatically check for new episodes when the page is visited." However, upon visiting a specific podcast page or the "All Subscriptions" page the podcast(s) doesn't update after waiting several minutes and refreshing the page. I must always click the update icon next to the podcast title (or update them all from the "All Subsctiptions" page) and refresh the webpage in order to update the podcast.

The polling interval is set to 60 in my docker-compose file but nothing seems to suggest it actually is refreshing every 60 minutes. Using Antennapod to fetch episodes from the Podfetch feed only has episodes that also appear in the "latest episodes" list and those can be weeks old.

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