Pinging. Apart from being a great sounding word, pinging means 'Hey! Server! I updated my feed! Check it out!'

When you ping.podcast.com, our server goes and updates the information of the latest episodes in your podcast rss feed, so people can find you and your content more easily.

Announce your new podcast content by entering your RSS 2.0 feed url here. Then we'll all be up to date.

1. The easy way


You can also use this for submitting new RSS feeds to podcast.com

2. The techie way

Using XML-RPC

Some podcast publishing system might offer you the ability to automatically ping us. If you are using your own XML-RPC client, please create an XML-RPC POST to 
http://ping.podcast.com/ping.php
with the following structure: 

<?xml version='1.0' ?>
<methodCall>
<methodName>weblogUpdates.ping</methodName>
	<params>
		<param><value>## FEED/PODCAST TITLE ##</value></param>
		<param><value>## RSS 2.0 FEED URL ##</value></param>
	</params>
</methodCall>

Example of a successful reply:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<methodResponse>
<params>
<param>
<value>
	<struct>
		<member>
		<name>flerror</name>
			<value>
				<boolean>0</boolean>
			</value>
		</member>
		<member>
			<name>message</name>
			<value>
				<string>Thanks for the ping!</string>
			</value>
		</member>
		<member>
			<name>id</name>
			<value>
				<int>123</int>
			</value>
		</member>
	</struct>
</value>
</param>
</params>
</methodResponse>

Example of an error response:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<methodResponse>
<fault>
<value>
	<struct>
	<member>
	<name>faultString</name>
		<value>
			<string>Error updating RSS feed</string>
		</value>
	</member>
	<member>
		<name>faultCode</name>
		<value>
			<string>Client</string>
		</value>
	</member>
</struct>
</value>
</fault>
</methodResponse>

last update kosso: 05 MAR 07 : podcast.com