It's freely available to anyone - the data (after securely hashing IPs) is provided as a service for everyone in the open podcast system.
There is a bit about the data api in the privacy policy [1]. Feel free to engage over on the github repo if you are blocked on anything or to chat about it [2].
The Open Podcast Prefix Project (OP3) is a free and open-source podcast prefix analytics service committed to open data and listener privacy.
It would be helpful to link "open data" to an op3.dev/opendata page that either defines data usage rights or states something like "podcast analytics data is intended for use by individual podcast publishers. For usage of aggregated data, please contact []". Maybe an FAQ with examples of acceptable commercial usage.
The "listener privacy" text could be linked to op3.dev/privacy.
> We've been running smoothly since Sept 2022, now measuring over 15 million podcast downloads every month across more than 1600 shows
Knock wood, but OP3 podcast redirecting has never had an single outage since it launched in Sept 2022.
Turns out Cloudflare Workers do a great job at simple http redirecting via their hundreds of edge locations, even during extended outages of the other parts of their stack.
Podcasting is open in many ways, but RSS-based podcast apps have no idea what shows are "hot in cleveland" or have related listener bases, etc outside of their own app.
When shows start using OP3, they open up these (listener privacy-preserving) stats to _any_ app, and set themselves up for future discovery / inbound opportunities on this basis.
> But what is the source? Who is typically hosting these? Audio is easier to distribute than video, but aren’t most podcasts hosted on a handful of large services?
Denoflare now has experimental support (v0.6.0+) for deploying ESM-based Typescript workers (including Wasm) not only to Cloudflare Workers, but three other edge runtimes - without wrangler, deployctl, the supabase cli, or the aws sdk
I kicked the tires on this with a pure TS implementation of the protocol called kv-connect-kit that gives you the KV client api in any Javascript runtime (including Cloudflare workers, which does not have anything Deno namespace related)
firesky.tv dev here - do you have javascript enabled?
If so, you should see everything posted to Bluesky in one view, like a massive chatroom.
Use the filter button to monitor for keywords/accounts etc. To me, this is probably the more long-term useful and non-brain-destroying use of the site.
So much so that I wrote Denoflare (https://denoflare.dev/) to make writing Cloudflare Workers using standard Deno a breeze: no wrangler, toml, webpack, npm etc required
The OP3 API is completely free to use: https://op3.dev/api/docs