- Who are you?
- We are a Virginia-based team of about 1. Find me @paulsingh on Twitter.
- What is Beacon?
- Beacon makes podcasts more discoverable and searchable. We do this by crawling podcast feeds, transcribing the episodes and making it publicly searchable by anyone. We live on a website and a daily/weekly email.
- How do I sign up for Beacon?
- You can signup with your Google or Twitter credentials. Alternatively, you can use your email address too.
- How do I get my podcast included in Beacon?
- If your podcast is listed in Apple Podcasts, it will typically show up in Beacon within a few days. If your podcast is already listed but isn’t appearing in Beacon, you can submit it here.
- What are your User-Agent strings?
- Beacon centrally fetches your podcast feed, transcribes your individual episodes and allows Beacon users to listen to your individual podcast episodes with the following User-Agent strings: Beacon/1.0 Podcast Sync +https://getbeacons.com/, Beacon/1.0 Podcast Transcriber +https://getbeacons.com/ and Beacon/1.0 Podcast Player +https://getbeacons.com/
- What are the hostnames of your crawling and transcription servers?
- Please ensure that the following hostnames are not blocked: crawl1.getbeacons.com, crawl2.getbeacons.com, crawl3.getbeacons.com, crawl4.getbeacons.com, crawl5.getbeacons.com, crawl6.getbeacons.com, transcribe1.getbeacons.com, transcribe2.getbeacons.com, transcribe3.getbeacons.com, transcribe4.getbeacons.com, transcribe5.getbeacons.com, transcribe6.getbeacons.com
- Ping API for immediate feed crawling
- Coming soon.