Missing-podcast validator reports "no episodes found" due to defunct feed service

[ssb22]

Hi, the "Add Missing Podcast" form at /missing/ rejects valid RSS feeds with "no episodes found" without actually attempting to fetch them. The underlying feeds.gpodder.net/parse service returns 404, causing the validator to fail silently.

I tried setting up a copy of my .rss file on an nginx server and tail -f the access and error logs. Confirmed logging is working OK by fetching the file via curl, also confirmed the RSS parses OK in the podcastparser library. I then put the same URL into gpodder.net/missing and it said "no episodes found" with no attempt made to contact the server. And when I tried manually fetching from feeds.gpodder.net/parse?url=... I get no response via https and a 404 via http with a Heroku "No such app".

I'm suspecting the FEEDSERVICE_URL config points to a defunct Heroku instance. The MissingPodcast view's verify_podcast_url() doesn't handle this failure case, so _validate_parsed() reports "no episodes found", rather than "service unavailable" or "internal server error" or some such.

This issue is not feed specific but here's an example of a feed that doesn't work: https://spqrz.gitlab.io/M3GAN-files.rss

Thanks.

[elelay]

Hi @ssb22,
thank you for the analysis. Indeed the feedservice is discontinued.
We are currently running mygpo in a more limited capacity: focusing on the sync between devices, not the web-based podcatcher.

Keeping the issue open to help others.