Have a fallback for Apple's podcast lookup API
SoftwarePodcast Index clone of the iTunes lookup API
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If your app depends on the Apple API, Apple lookup API, you can just replace the host name of forgot what it's like. I look up that iTunes dot commerce out forgot what just replace the host name with API podcast. index.org. And it just works.
Episode 134: ChapterGPT (episode page, opens in a new tab) 02:07:41 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Apple's lookup API was throwing frequent 503s. Podcast Index runs a clone endpoint: swap the iTunes hostname for api.podcastindex.org and it works, so apps can fall back to it and flip back when Apple recovers.
Not in the audio. Dave's own service (self-promotion). The Apple hostname (itunes.apple.com) is garbled in the transcript; he couldn't remember it on air.
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Episode 94: Bells Out (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:13:39 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
It's really meant to be a failover. So if Apple goes down, you for it has an outage that apps and services can just do an A, B, and failover to us get the exact same data
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Episode 107: Clippy for Developers! (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:12:59 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
if Apple's API goes down, all you do is change the host name of the URL, query. Everything else stays the same. And you start getting traffic again.
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Episode 151: One Big Table (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:28:53 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
you detect one outage on an API call to Apple, switch those switch to us for let's say a few minutes, then test it and then try to flip that you do a failover and failback.
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