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ipx asks ipx-directory on its people's behalf, with the token an admin set in the new Admin, Directory tab, so the page never talks to it and never sees the token or a feed's address. /api/directory, /api/popular and a feed's Directory page answer from it; subscribing takes the address from the directory and goes through Add feed's steps. With no directory set up, the Directory says so. The local directory code is gone; its privacy checks are the snapshot builder's now, and their tests moved with them. With sharing on, ipx sends its snapshot after every scan, whenever the config changes (set_cfg) and every half hour: each public feed and how many here subscribe, never an OPML or Patreon creator itself or anything private. A feed can be marked private in its settings, for a paid feed whose address does not give it away; anyone subscribed may mark it, only an admin unmark it. The admin's category for a feed that names none goes with it, which the directory uses only while the feed names none, so the category an admin gives a blog still reaches the Directory. The directory lists only feeds it has read as a feed: the first snapshot after a start went before the first scan, when an OPML was not yet known to be one, and the directory listed the OPML. It now fetches what a snapshot brings in at once instead of within the minute. The browser suite runs its own ipx-directory on SQLite; the Directory's tests match feeds by title, since the directory names them by address. 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.