Proposal: <podcast:tracker> tag

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Proposal: <podcast:tracker> tag

The intent of this proposal is to provide a tag that allows the application to be made aware of BitTorrent trackers for use where other metadata doesn't include them.

The current intended use case for this is to supplement p2p-media-loader outside of PeerTube. This is what will enable 3rd party podcast applications to participate in sharing video bandwidth with other peers.

Example

The following shows several trackers over HTTP, HTTPS, UDP, and WebSocket Secure.

<rss xmlns:podcast="https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/docs/1.0.md" version="2.0">
    <channel>
    <title>My Podcast</title>
    <description>This is a podcast</description>
    <link>https://example.com/rss-my-podcast.xml</link>
    <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>
    <language>en</language>
    <generator>Alecks Gates wrote this by hand in Joplin</generator>
    <pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2023 18:40:52 -0500</pubDate>
    <lastBuildDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2023 18:40:52 -0500</lastBuildDate>
    <podcast:medium>video</podcast:medium>
    <podcast:tracker>https://opentracker.i2p.rocks:443/announce</podcast:tracker>
    <podcast:tracker>udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce</podcast:tracker>
    <item>
        <title>Generic item</title>
        <otherTagsHere>...</otherTagsHere>
        <podcast:tracker>http://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce</podcast:tracker>
        <podcast:tracker>wss://tracker.openwebtorrent.com</podcast:tracker>
    </item>
    </channel>
</rss>

Definition

<podcast:tracker>

The tracker tag allows BitTorrent trackers to be specified for a channel or individual items.

This can contain a URI pointing to any BitTorrent tracker.

Parent

channel, item

Count

Multiple

Value

The value must be a valid URI for a BitTorrent tracker.