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Getting an episode onto a phone took two buttons in two states: download it to the server, wait, then keep it on the device, beside Save to this computer, Share and Delete, five buttons that did not say where each copy went. Now a file has one button that brings it to where you are. On a phone or in the iOS app it ends on the device; when iPX has not got the file yet, iPX fetches it and the device's copy follows once iPX says it is done (remembered in localStorage, so a page closed meanwhile catches up when a list next shows the file). On a computer it has iPX fetch the file, and with iPX's copy there saves one. A line beside the size says where the file is, and the rarer actions, two of them destructive, are under a menu. isPlayable is false for any file not on iPX, so the phone's button is decided by playsKind, the same test without the path. download_done now marks the file as on iPX in what the page holds, so the open file's box changes at once rather than after the list is fetched again. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RqkrVA8TdTxe556JB3sR1n
ipx
A self-hosted podcatcher for a household. It checks your feeds, downloads the episodes, and serves
a web UI modelled on the 2004 Mac app iPodderX, for any number of people sharing one copy of
the files. One Rust binary, ipx, is both the daemon and the command line.
It is a rewrite of ipodderx-core, the Python engine behind iPodderX (2004-2008, Ray Slakinski & August Trometer).
What it does
- The web UI. It has a toolbar, and a feed list that opens with the Directory, Currently Listening and All Subscriptions. Items sit in a sortable table with a Files pane, and there is a player bar. It comes in Dark, Light and Classic themes, and works on a phone.
- Several people, one copy. Each person has their own subscriptions and their own read, pinned and playback state. There is one file on disk per episode, however many people want it. People sign in with a password or through a proxy (Cloudflare Zero Trust or Authentik), and admins manage accounts and settings.
- Scanning. Feeds are checked on a schedule, globally or per feed, and a feed's own TTL is honoured. Keyword, explicit-content and media-type filters decide what is downloaded, with a limit on how many of a feed's newest episodes are downloaded.
- Downloads. Files come over HTTP or BitTorrent and are filed into a folder per feed. Retention deletes the oldest files to stay under a disk quota or an age limit, and never touches an item someone has pinned.
- OPML. You can import and export your own subscriptions. You can also subscribe to an OPML URL, which keeps a whole list in step as a folder.
Run it
With Docker:
docker build -t ipx .
docker build -f Dockerfile.web -t ipx-web .
docker compose up -d
docker-compose.yml is a sample: ipx, with its database in SQLite and its three volumes
(/config, /data and /downloads) in folders beside the file, and ipx-web, the page, served by
Caddy in front of it. Change them to suit. The UI is on port 8099. BitTorrent uses 6881
over TCP and UDP. Files are written as PUID/PGID, 99:100 by default.
From source:
cargo build --release
./target/release/ipxd daemon
The first start creates admin with a random password, written to admin-password beside
config.toml (readable by ipx's user alone; the log says where, never what it is). Set
IPX_ADMIN_PASSWORD to choose it instead. Sign in at /login, then change it:
echo -n 'a good password' | ipxd user passwd admin
The UI is plain HTTP, so put TLS in front of it if it is reachable from outside your network.
Documentation
| docs/configuration.md | Every config key, path and environment variable |
| docs/cli.md | Every command, including ipxd user |
| docs/users.md | Accounts, and what several people share |
| docs/sso.md | Signing in through Cloudflare Zero Trust or Authentik |
| docs/architecture.md | How it works: modules, schema, control socket, HTTP API |
| crates/ipx/CHANGELOG.md, web/CHANGELOG.md, crates/directory/CHANGELOG.md | What changed, by release, for ipx, the page and the directory |
| CLAUDE.md | Notes for working on the code, including how production is deployed |
Tests
cargo test # the engine: parsing, filters, retention, schedules, SQL, per-user state
node tests/page-smoke.ts # the page script loads without throwing
node tests/native-bridge.ts # the page hands playback to a native shell
npx playwright test # a real browser against a real daemon on fixture feeds
npm install gets the test runner, and npx playwright install --with-deps chromium gets the
browser.
License
MIT, see LICENSE. The icons are Font Awesome Free 7.3.1 by @fontawesome, under CC BY 4.0, embedded as SVG.