Show HN: PodBear – A Podcast Search Engine
6 points by perelin 1 year ago | 6 commentsa few weeks ago I found myself in a situation without anything interesting to listen to. Been through all podcast recommendations from friends and the usual recos from itunes, etc were not cutting it for me. So I build myself a podcast search engine. Based on the data from podcastindex.org and some other available infos.
It doesnt (yet) have all available podcasts, only the ones I could find some rating/engagement infos on. But its still around 60k podcasts to discover :)
One can search / filter / sort by category, rating, popularity, episodes, language, update date, etc. There is also a very simple full text search that searches through title, description, author, etc.
Would love to hear what everybody is thinking! All feedback is welcome!
Tech: Postgres + PostgREST backend, Sveltekit frontend.
Disclaimer: its still a bit hack-ish currently, so I fully expect things to break somehow :) just post me a note about it
Here you go: https://podbear.netlify.app/
- jasonvorhe 1 year agoStrange, compared to Pocket Cast's search, I'm not finding anything when looking for somewhat more edgy topics:
https://play.pocketcasts.com/search?q=%22Jacques%20Vall%C3%A...https://play.pocketcasts.com/search?q=%22tracy%20twyman%22
These search queries offer many results on Pock Casts and none from your search engine. Any idea what's wrong here?
- perelin 1 year agoHi, just double checked myself. The results that pocketcasts is delivering are from single episodes. Podbear currently only knows about the shows themselves, not single episodes. But thats a good point! Thanks for mentioning it.
- perelin 1 year ago
- NikhilSharmaWe 1 year agoEven famous topics like Joe Rogan and astronomy do not give any results. You should look into it.
- perelin 1 year agoThanks! Already looking into it.
- perelin 1 year ago
- phpisatrash 1 year agoListennotes.com
- perelin 1 year agocool, thx! will check them out!
- perelin 1 year ago