feat(podcast): automated RSS feed sync + backfill eps 221-234#38
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Add an add-only sync that generates episode files from the Podbean feed, plus a weekly scheduled Action that auto-commits new episodes (mirroring discourse-sync.yml). The first run backfills the gap between the repo (ep 220) and the feed (ep 234). The feed turned out to carry the full archive rather than a 10-item window, so idempotency is keyed on the enclosure URL (every existing file has it) and the episode number is parsed from the Podbean filename, since itunes:episode runs one ahead of the repo convention. This makes the separate WS3 scrape unnecessary; ADR 0003 and the plan are updated to record the corrected design. Guest extraction stays conservative (high-confidence only) because the Action commits without review. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qv5XTRCp9s9cH6SikDkrnS
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Summary
Implements Workstream 4 (ongoing RSS sync) from
docs/podcast-sync-plan.md, and in doing so makes Workstream 3 (backfill) unnecessary..github/scripts/sync-podcast-feed.js— add-only sync (ESM +node-fetch, no new deps). Generates episode files from the Podbean feed, never edits or deletes. Supports--dry-run..github/workflows/podcast-sync.yml— weekly (Tuesday, after the Monday release) +workflow_dispatch; auto-commitscontent/podcast, mirroringdiscourse-sync.yml.ADR 0003 assumed the feed was truncated to 10 items. It is not — the live feed carries the full 234-item archive. The chosen design (incremental, add-only) still holds and is even safer, but it has consequences worth a careful look:
guid, thenepisode. Every existing modern file carries the enclosure aspodcast_url; none carried aguid, so the URL is the universal key.itunes:episoderuns one ahead of the repo convention (which parses the number from the Podbean filename,..._episode_NNN_...). The script derivesepisodefrom the filename and usesitunes:episodeonly to disambiguate the one special whose filename glues a suffix onto the number (episode_2298xv9d→ 229).Because the Action auto-commits with no review gate
with <Name>title patterns, ported fromscripts/update-podcast-authors.py). All 14 bylines are correct; the three ambiguous bar-sessions were left without a guest rather than guessed.Verification
hugo --gc --minifyexits 0; new episode pages render with YouTube thumbnail/embed, audio player, and guest byline.Reviewer notes / open calls
durationomitted to keep synced frontmatter identical to existing files (none carry it). Easy to add (itunes:duration, seconds) if wanted.permissions: contents: writeexplicitly (discourse-sync.yml relies on the default token). Confirm branch protection / token settings allow the Action to push.🤖 Generated with Claude Code