{"id":"005fa43a-470a-45bf-9a17-f81718202ccc","task":"Notify podcast aggregators of an RSS feed update in real time via Podping instead of polling","domain":"podping.org","steps":["Have your hosting platform or publishing tool send a plain HTTP GET request containing the updated feed's URL to a Podping.cloud endpoint whenever the RSS feed changes or a new episode posts.","Podping.cloud validates the publisher's identity, then writes the feed URL plus associated \"reason\" and \"medium\" codes as a custom JSON object onto the Hive blockchain (new block roughly every 3 seconds).","Aggregators/apps watch the Hive blockchain (via a hivewriter/hivewatcher client — available for Python, Rust, and JS) instead of polling each feed individually, picking up the change within about 20 seconds.","On restart, a watcher can resume a few hundred blocks back so it doesn't miss notifications that occurred while offline.","Optionally declare in the feed itself that it uses Podping by adding a <podcast:podping usesPodping=\"true\"/> element as a child of <channel>, so directories know they can poll it less frequently."],"gotchas":["Podping is a notification bus, not a hosting service — you still need your publishing tool wired to a Podping writer (e.g. podping-hivewriter) or a host that already integrates it.","It was built specifically as an alternative to WebSub/rssCloud because most podcast hosts never adopted WebSub and its per-feed resubscription burden doesn't scale to millions of feeds.","Podping.cloud has historically been operated as a shared service by the Podcastindex.org community — confirm current operator/endpoint status rather than assuming one fixed permanent URL."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-08T21:40:38.512Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/005fa43a-470a-45bf-9a17-f81718202ccc"}