Spreaker RSS feed customization
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An RSS Feed is a content-distribution tool. It allows you to distribute your podcast across several platforms. As generic tags follow the information set to Podcasts on Spreaker, any changes you make will be automatically reflected in your Spreaker RSS feed. To do so just go to Content Management System and select your podcast. Click the “Podcast settings” button and modify all the podcast information you see on the page. Once finished, just save it.

Each podcast on Spreaker has its own feed, which contains all the public episodes and follows this URL format: https://www.spreaker.com/show/SHOWID/episodes/feed.

The Spreaker podcast's RSS Feed is a well-formed XML file that conforms to the RSS 2.0 specification. It is divided into podcast-level tags and episode-level tags.

Podcast-level RSS tags

All the podcast-level RSS tags are wrapped into the <channel> tag and, as the name suggests, they consist of information about the podcast.

RSS Tag

Description

<title>

The podcast title

<link>

The website associated with a podcast.

It can be customized in the Website page settings of your podcast.

<description>

The podcast description

<atom:link>

The link to the RSS Feed. It is automatically generated

<language>

The language of the podcast

<category>

The first category of the podcast

<itunes:category>

The categories of the podcast

<copyright>

The podcast copyright details

<image>

The image associated with the podcast.

It consists of three elements:

  • <title>: see the <title> section above

  • <link>: see the <link> section above

  • <url>: URL of the podcast image. The URL links to a JPG version with a size of 1400 x 1400 pixels.

<itunes:image>

Same as the <url> tag for <image>. See the <image> section above

<lastBuildDate>

The last date and time the content of the feed was updated

<itunes:author>

Text name(s) of the author(s) of the podcast

<itunes:owner>

The podcast owner. It consists of two elements:

  • <itunes:name>: the owner name

  • <itunes:email>: the owner email. Contact information is intended for administrative purposes regarding the podcast only. This information will not be displayed in the iTunes store. The default for this field is feeds@spreaker.com

<itunes:explicit>

The podcast parental advisory information.

It is automatically set to explicit if at least one episode of the podcast is marked as explicit.

<itunes:type>

Podcast Type: it ensures that your episodes are properly ordered in Apple Podcasts and other directories. You can choose between Episodic and Serial. Episodic shows are those that can be listened to in any order. Serial shows are designed to be listened to in sequential order — from the first episode to the last.)

<item>

Episode information. See the section below

Episode-level RSS tags

The episode data are contained within the <item> tag. The RSS feed contains one <item> tag for each episode of the podcast.

RSS Tag

Description

<title>

The episode title

<link>

The episode URL

<description>

The episode description. It supports HTML

<guid>

The episode’s globally unique identifier (GUID). It is automatically generated

<pubDate>

The date and time the episode was released

<enclosure>

The episode content. It consists of three attributes:

  • url: the podcast media file URL

  • length: the file size (in bytes)

  • type: audio format of the file

It is automatically generated

<itunes:duration>

The episode duration (in seconds). It is automatically generated

<itunes:explicit>

The episode parental advisory information. If at least one episode of the podcast is marked as explicit, also the podcast will be automatically considered explicit.

<itunes:image>

The URL of the episode image. The URL links to a JPG version with a size of 1400 x 1400 pixels. The default is the podcast image URL

<itunes:episodeType>

The episode type. More info here.

<itunes:season>

The episode season number

<itunes:episode>

The episode number. It is being used on Apple Podcasts to order episodes based on their number.

<podcast:transcript>

The episode transcript. It consists of three attributes:

  • url: the URL of the transcript

  • type: the MIME type for the transcript

  • language: the language of the transcript. It is the same as the <language> tag at podcast-level

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