Support itunes:image syntax in RSS Polling plugin

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When it comes to media-related RSS, basically podcasts and music, iTunes is a big player, so big, that some media platforms ensure to be compatible with iTunes’ RSS more than with W3C’s RSS. In practice, RSS Polling works just fine with these feeds, excepts that it doesn’t recognize the syntax for images. It looks like this:

<itunes:image href="https://static-2.ivoox.com/audios/7/c/f/6/7cf68a790f570a1809c6ba30ba2ca2f2_XXL.jpg"/>

Some RSS services / apps will be adapted to recognize this syntax and show an image. For instance, I have tested this with https://antennapod.org/ . It would be great if RSS Polling could recognize this syntax and poll the images as well.

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Just a note to say that @RGJ and I have agreed to tackle this feature.

It would be interesting to know whether the Discourse maintainers would welcome it as a PR, or at least whether they would be open to the idea. :slight_smile:

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Yes, I think we’re open to a PR that adds support for itunes:image syntax. Thanks!

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Just a note to say that @RGJ has a patch that I have tested and it works (proof). :tada: Thank you, Richard!

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So 6 months later it was pointed out to me that I forgot to create the actual PR…

Here it is Support itunes:image by communiteq · Pull Request #91 · discourse/discourse-rss-polling · GitHub

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Does that mean that after this PR I can start host podcasts using Diacourse?

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This PR does exactly what the title of this topic says, and is unrelated to the possibility of hosting podcasts in Discourse. :slightly_smiling_face:

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That is big part of that, because feed of podcasts are there already :man_shrugging:

So, it is just to give a try then.