Here’s a Ruby Builder script to create a podcast feed using Dato. It’s super simple but took me some time to review the various standards and get it validating in iTunes Connect. Enjoy!
The only thing that doesn’t currently work is the episode.audio.duration value, as Dato currently doesn’t calculate this for audio files. I hope this is added soon, as it’s great to have a site’s podcast all in the same CMS and with easy static hosting of the feed.
xml.instruct! :xml, version: "1.0"
rss_attributes = {
"version" => "2.0",
"xmlns:dc" => "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/",
"xmlns:sy" => "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/",
"xmlns:atom" => "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom",
"xmlns:rdf" => "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#",
"xmlns:content" => "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/",
"xmlns:itunes" => "http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd",
"xmlns:media" => "http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
}
xml.rss rss_attributes do
xml.channel do
xml.title podcast.title
xml.language "en-GB"
xml.description podcast.description
xml.link podcast_feed_url
xml.atom :link, href: podcast_feed_url, rel: "self", type: "application/rss+xml"
xml.itunes :author, podcast.author.name
xml.itunes :subtitle, podcast.subtitle
xml.itunes :explicit, "clean"
xml.itunes :category, text: podcast.category
xml.itunes :image, href: podcast.artwork.url(w: 1500, h: 1500, fit: :crop)
xml.itunes :owner do
xml.itunes :name, podcast.owner.name
xml.itunes :email, podcast.email
end
podcast.episodes.each do |episode|
xml.item do
xml.title episode.title
xml.description episode.description
xml.pubDate episode.date.rfc2822
xml.guid podcast_episode_url(episode), isPermaLink: true
xml.link podcast_episode_url(episode)
xml.itunes :author, episode.author.name
xml.itunes :subtitle, episode.subtitle
xml.itunes :duration, episode.audio.duration
xml.itunes :image, href: episode.artwork.url(w: 1500, h: 1500, fit: :crop)
xml.itunes :explicit, "clean"
xml.enclosure url: episode.audio.url, length: episode.audio.size, type: "audio/mpeg"
xml.media :content, url: episode.audio.url, type: "audio/mpeg"
end
end
end
end
