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pending() took the newest files still pending, up to the limit, so once a show's latest three
were down, each full read of its feed took the three before them, working back through its
whole history. In production 4420 files (about 310 GB) were queued this way across 12 shows,
all on the default limit of 3, which is meant as "the latest three". It now takes only from the
feed's newest `limit` items with a file. 0, unlimited, still takes the whole back catalogue:
that is how the shows kept as an archive are set, along with limits of 100 and 10000.
The settings' wording followed the old behaviour ("The rest wait for the next scan"); the field
is now "Newest episodes to download", and says what 0 does.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# ipx
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A self-hosted podcatcher for a household. It checks your feeds, downloads the episodes, and serves
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a web UI modelled on the 2004 Mac app **iPodderX**, for any number of people sharing one copy of
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the files. One Rust binary, `ipx`, is both the daemon and the command line.
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It is a rewrite of [ipodderx-core](https://git.sdf1.net/rays/ipodderx-core), the Python engine
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behind iPodderX (2004-2008, Ray Slakinski & August Trometer).
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## What it does
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- **The web UI.** It has a toolbar, and a feed list that opens with Directory, Popular and All
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Subscriptions. Items sit in a sortable table with a Files pane, and there is a player bar. It
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comes in Dark, Light and Classic themes, and works on a phone.
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- **Several people, one copy.** Each person has their own subscriptions and their own read, pinned
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and playback state. There is one file on disk per episode, however many people want it. People
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sign in with a password or through a proxy (Cloudflare Zero Trust or Authentik), and admins
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manage accounts and settings.
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- **Scanning.** Feeds are checked on a schedule, globally or per feed, and a feed's own TTL is
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honoured. Keyword, explicit-content and media-type filters decide what is downloaded, with a limit
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on how many of a feed's newest episodes are downloaded.
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- **Downloads.** Files come over HTTP or BitTorrent and are filed into a folder per feed.
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Retention deletes the oldest files to stay under a disk quota or an age limit, and never touches
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an item someone has pinned.
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- **OPML.** You can import and export your own subscriptions. You can also subscribe to an OPML
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URL, which keeps a whole list in step as a folder.
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## Run it
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With Docker:
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```sh
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docker build -t ipx .
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docker compose up -d
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```
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`docker-compose.yml` is set up for the author's own server. Point its `image` and its three volumes
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(`/config`, `/data` and `/downloads`) at yours first. The UI is on port 8099. BitTorrent uses 6881
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over TCP and UDP. Files are written as `PUID`/`PGID`, 99:100 by default.
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From source:
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```sh
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cargo build --release
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./target/release/ipx daemon
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```
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The first start creates **admin / ipodderx**. Sign in at `/login`, then change it:
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```sh
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echo -n 'a good password' | ipx user passwd admin
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```
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The UI is plain HTTP, so put TLS in front of it if it is reachable from outside your network.
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## Documentation
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| [docs/configuration.md](docs/configuration.md) | Every config key, path and environment variable |
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| [docs/cli.md](docs/cli.md) | Every command, including `ipx user` |
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| [docs/users.md](docs/users.md) | Accounts, and what several people share |
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| [docs/sso.md](docs/sso.md) | Signing in through Cloudflare Zero Trust or Authentik |
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| [docs/architecture.md](docs/architecture.md) | How it works: modules, schema, control socket, HTTP API |
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| [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) | What changed, by release |
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| [CLAUDE.md](CLAUDE.md) | Notes for working on the code, including how production is deployed |
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## Tests
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```sh
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cargo test # the engine: parsing, filters, retention, schedules, SQL, per-user state
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node tests/page-smoke.js # the page script loads without throwing
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node tests/native-bridge.js # the page hands playback to a native shell
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npx playwright test # a real browser against a real daemon on fixture feeds
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```
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`npm install` gets the test runner, and `npx playwright install --with-deps chromium` gets the
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browser.
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## License
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MIT, see [LICENSE](LICENSE). The icons are [Font Awesome Free](https://fontawesome.com) 7.3.1 by
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@fontawesome, under [CC BY 4.0](https://fontawesome.com/license/free), embedded as SVG.
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