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Podcast Player: Support even more providers
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- PHP
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Description
#### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Despite the block advertising only RSS feed support for URLs, every testing session revealed people using all sorts of different links - usually to web pages, instead of feeds.
We have adjusted the Podcast Player block to support any oEmbed URL and convert Podcast Player into an appropriate embed block of those services. This covers popular podcasting services like Spotify, Soundcloud or even Youtube.
We also have an automatic detection of linked RSS feed so if you put a URL into the block for webpage that declares RSS support (`
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the Podcast Player block's existing URL handling and review the markup of an Apple Podcasts page for a source RSS URL. Verify that an Apple Podcasts URL can resolve to the original feed while existing oEmbed and linked-feed behavior continues to work.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php, wordpress
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100