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A new crate and service, crates/directory, live at ipx-dir.sdf1.net. ipx servers send the public feeds their people subscribe to (POST /v1/snapshot, replacing what that token sent before); the directory fetches each feed's title, artwork, category, description and latest twenty items every six hours with ipx-feed, and lists them A to Z and by subscribers summed over every server. It holds metadata only, never a file or a file's address. Tokens are in its config file as SHA-256 hashes, each ro, rw or rwa, and the file is read again within a minute of a change, so adding and revoking one is an edit and nothing else; a revoked token takes its server's counts. At first they were to come from environment variables, which would have meant recreating the container to add one. A file that does not load keeps the tokens as they were. Every address sent is checked with ipx_feed::url_looks_private, the check ipx makes before sending, so one server's miss does not publish a paid feed to every other; an rwa token can remove and block what both miss. Deployed: ipx-directory in the ipx Arcane project, database ipx_directory (its own login) on the databases project's Postgres, which db-backup already covers, and a tunnel route with no Access in front. The store's tests run on Postgres as well as SQLite when IPX_TEST_DATABASE_URL is set. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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 compose up -d
docker-compose.yml is a sample: ipx alone, with its database in SQLite and its three volumes
(/config, /data and /downloads) in folders beside the file. 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/ipx daemon
The first start creates admin / ipodderx. Sign in at /login, then change it:
echo -n 'a good password' | ipx 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 ipx 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 |
| CHANGELOG.md | What changed, by release |
| 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.js # the page script loads without throwing
node tests/native-bridge.js # 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.