I am building a website using html, css and bootstrap for my podcast, my problem is that I want to put a player of the podcast in the hero image part of the website so people can come and listen to my podcast at the moment of entering into the website. I want the player to use the RSS Feed of my podcast to always update the player with the latest episode, I hace been trying to look for a solution for that but I have found anything. I made an account here on stack overflow to reach some expert on this field to help me with this problem. I am so frustrated ToT
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The first bit to solve how to get the latest (first) item in an RSS feed (which is XML data) using JS.
This tutorial covers that. Instead of forEach, you just need one item.
Like with
myArray[0]. And find theurlor similar attribute.css-tricks.com/how-to-fetch-and-pa...
Once you have that item, you can use it in an audio player. Perhaps using the HTML5 builtin audio player.
Tutorial w3schools.com/html/html5_audio.asp
I would recommend making the player an existing HTML on the page. Maybe with empty string for the URL and mark it as hidden or grayed out.
So to put it all together:
Load the RSS and parse it.
Look for a value in the first item.
And whatever value you get out as a URL, you set that on the existing audio element. And mark it as enabled or no longer hidden.
If you run into issues, then post your partially working JS here maybe as a gist.
Including the RSS URL.
Hey there! I’ve run into a similar challenge while building a podcast site with HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap. I also wanted to display a podcast player right in the hero section that auto-updates using the RSS feed.
After a bit of digging, I found that most audio players that support RSS feeds — like those built with JavaScript libraries — usually require a bit of extra setup. A common approach is to use JavaScript to fetch and parse the RSS feed (usually XML), extract the latest episode's audio file (the tag), and then embed it in a custom HTML5 audio player.
Here’s a basic outline of how you can do it:
Use JavaScript to fetch your podcast RSS feed.
Parse the XML and find the first (the latest episode).
Extract the audio URL from the tag.
Dynamically insert it into an tag within your hero section.
If you’re interested, I can share a sample script to get you started.
On a side note, while working on this project, I had to explore various media conversion formats, which led me to understand the importance of feed compatibility — much like when users convert youtube to mp3 and expect a seamless audio experience. Keeping your audio delivery smooth and instantly accessible from the hero section adds a similar level of user convenience.
"The element in a podcast contains an URL to the stream (often a mp3).
This could be fed into an element (please offer controls)."
From @AndreJaenisch on Twitter