# Support itunes:image syntax in RSS Polling plugin
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-itunes-image-syntax-in-rss-polling-plugin/314612
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** rss, rss-polling, completed
**Created:** [July 2, 2024, 12:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-itunes-image-syntax-in-rss-polling-plugin/314612 "2024-07-02T12:15:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/u/icaria36)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2024, 12:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-itunes-image-syntax-in-rss-polling-plugin/314612/1 "2024-07-02T12:15:14Z")
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:
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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/](https://antennapod.org/) . It would be great if RSS Polling could recognize this syntax and poll the images as well.
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### Author:  [@icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/u/icaria36)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-itunes-image-syntax-in-rss-polling-plugin/314612/2 "2024-07-17T18:52:11Z")
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. 🙂
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### Author:  [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2024, 7:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-itunes-image-syntax-in-rss-polling-plugin/314612/4 "2024-07-17T19:04:00Z")
Yes, I think we’re open to a PR that adds support for `itunes:image` syntax. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/u/icaria36)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2024, 8:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-itunes-image-syntax-in-rss-polling-plugin/314612/5 "2024-08-08T20:56:16Z")
Just a note to say that @RGJ has a patch that I have tested and it works ([proof](https://red.podkasts.org/c/podkasts/gallinejas-y-entresijos/77)). 🎉 Thank you, Richard!
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-itunes-image-syntax-in-rss-polling-plugin/314612/6 "2024-12-21T15:44:06Z")
> [@pmusaraj](#):
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> Yes, I think we’re open to a PR that adds support for `itunes:image` syntax. Thanks!
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](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-rss-polling/pull/91)
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-itunes-image-syntax-in-rss-polling-plugin/314612/7 "2024-12-21T16:39:16Z")
Does that mean that after this PR I can start host podcasts using Diacourse?
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### Author:  [@icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/u/icaria36)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2024, 6:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-itunes-image-syntax-in-rss-polling-plugin/314612/8 "2024-12-21T18:17:28Z")
This PR does exactly what the title of this topic says, and is unrelated to the possibility of hosting podcasts in Discourse. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-itunes-image-syntax-in-rss-polling-plugin/314612/9 "2024-12-21T18:31:24Z")
That is big part of that, because feed of podcasts are there already 🤷♂️
So, it is just to give a try then.
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### Author:  [@icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/u/icaria36)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2025, 10:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-itunes-image-syntax-in-rss-polling-plugin/314612/10 "2025-01-07T10:20:11Z")
This patch was merged, I installed the new version, and it works (see this real [example](https://red.podkasts.org/c/podkasts/la-alegre-corchea-libertaria/123) of a feed imported today).
This feature request can be resolved. Thank you very much @RGJ and Discourse team!