NPR Needs OPML
I listen to KUOW in my car all the time. If the dial isn’t tuned in to NPR, the radio simply isn’t on. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve taken extra laps around the block just so I could listen to a full broadcast. Last Thursday, I heard a great segment on the origins of marriage (What is a Traditional Marriage) – I wanted Ponzi to hear it, too. That’s when I remembred: NPR has podcasts! And let’s face it – NPR owns the podcast space. I’d give my left nut to have a show on NPR (and my left nut is slightly more valuable than my right nut, FWIW). The problem is that NPR has over 300 podcasts as of today, making them impossible to manage and subscribe to en masse. So, I’m asking the NPR gods: please give us a single, permanent OPML URL? You can keep the same dichotomy, just put in a more transportable / importable format. If the NPR OPML is always at the same URL, we can always have the latest set of NPR shows a finger-click away. And if you already have a master OPML for NPR, why haven’t you linked to it from your podcast page?
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KOZ: Thursday, June 08, 2006
June 7th, 2006
at 1:31pm
[IMG Permanent link to this item in the archive.] I just saw the Dave has pointed toa post from Chis Pirillo, asking for an OPML file of all of NPR’s podcasts. Funnily enough, I have been talking to people at NPR about doing just that. I have an OPML file here, which lists all their podcasts. Very soon (once I have ironed out a bug) I will use the alpha system at
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June 13th, 2007
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June 5th, 2006
at 5:45pm
[...] Chris Pirillo begs (nicely) for NPR to have an OPML of all their podcasts. [...]
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June 6th, 2006
at 2:57am
[...] Monday, June 05, 2006Chris Pirillo begs for an OPML of all of NPR’s podcasts. [...]
Netanel Jacobsson
June 6th, 2006
at 4:01am
Hey Chis, you are soo right. I sit here in Israel and listed to NPR’s podcast’s every day – just so great & interesting programs. I run the straight from my Maxthon sidebar.
Kosso
June 6th, 2006
at 6:07am
Hi Chris.
I’ve been talking to NPR about this a couple of weeks agi, as it happens.
I have an OPML file of all the NPR podcasts – I am just waiting for someone to go through them and ‘organise’ them all into folders etc. Then we will be importing the OPML for them all to appear at npr.podcast.com
:))
David Kluskiewicz
June 6th, 2006
at 6:19am
I’ll second that! There needs to be some better way to pull down NPR shows than ferreting through iTunes. They should make an OPML index the theme of a pledge drive. I’d bet there are thousands of listeners who haven’t tuned in to NPR on a radio dial in months. It doesn’t mean they’re not listening.
jake
June 6th, 2006
at 7:13am
We maintain a comprehensive public radio podcast directory available in OPML here:
http://manager.pubcatcher.org/prx/Public+Radio+Directory
It’s a work in progress, and we’re part of the NPR-lead public radio podcasting project where discussions are actively underway for how to manage a better directory.
- Jake
kosso’s braingarden » NPR Podcasts OPM
June 6th, 2006
at 7:33am
[...] I just saw the Dave has pointed to a post from Chis Pirillo, asking for an OPML file of all of NPR’s podcasts. Funnily enough, I have been talking to people at NPR about doing just that. [...]
Kosso
June 6th, 2006
at 8:10am
http://podcast.com/opml/npr.opml
;)
Bryan
June 6th, 2006
at 2:55pm
As Kosso mentions, we’ve been working to get exactly that: a good OPML. We do provide an OPML of all the podcasts currently in the NPR Podcast Directory, which includes NPR-produced content, alt.NPR podcast-only content, content from the great partners in NPR’s Podcasting Effort, and a few hundred other podcasts from NPR member stations. It lives here:
http://www.npr.org/podcasts.opml
As we improve the OPML, it will still live there. Note, the above OPML includes some of our newer podcasts that are missing from the OPML’s listed in previous posts.
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June 6th, 2006
at 9:28pm
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Kosso
June 7th, 2006
at 10:52am
We have now set up a simple to remeber URL to find all the NPR aggregated podcasts at http://npr.podcast.com
Consume and enjoy! :)
Kosso
Media SITREP » Potpourri of Thursday links
June 15th, 2006
at 9:58pm
[...] Chris Pirillo says NPR needs OPML. Sounds good to me: I’m asking the NPR gods: please give us a single, permanent OPML URL? You can keep the same dichotomy, just put in a more transportable / importable format. If the NPR OPML is always at the same URL, we can always have the latest set of NPR shows a finger-click away. [...]
Mike
August 7th, 2006
at 2:14pm
How about an OPML organized (i.e. in folders)
using the same structure as posted at the NPR
website (by Radio Station Call Letters)?
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php?type=provider&value=1#podcast1
And something a little simpler than the 3 or 4 clicks it takes to
subscribe to any one podcast?
At 332 (as of this date – podcasts), that’s a LOT of clicking.
It’s nice to have an OPML of ALL podcasts alphabetical (or an incomplete
listing organized by folders), but, it would be nice to have an OPML
consistent with the method currently used on the NPR website.
Or better yet – a CHOICE to have an OPML alphabetical, or sorted
by category, or by Station Call Letters.
People could then pick their preferred method.