Mark built a podcast tracking web app called PodcastTracker.com using Drupal to log his podcast listening history since there were no existing services to do so. The app tracks podcast channels, episodes, and allows logging listens. It imports data from RSS feeds and has views to analyze listening stats. While more improvements are planned, it has already logged over 300 days of his podcast listening history.

1. PodcastTracker.com:
HOW I BUILT A PODCAST TRACKING WEBHOW I BUILT A PODCAST TRACKING WEB
APP WITH DRUPALAPP WITH DRUPAL
by Mark Koester (@Int3c)

2. SLIDES:SLIDES:
https://rawgit.com/markwk/building-
podcasttracker.com-presentation/master/index.html

3. MY YEAR IN PODCAST LISTENING (2016 PREVIEW)MY YEAR IN PODCAST LISTENING (2016 PREVIEW)

4. MY YEAR IN PODCAST LISTENING (2016 PREVIEW)MY YEAR IN PODCAST LISTENING (2016 PREVIEW)

6. MY YEAR IN PODCAST LISTENING (2016 PREVIEW)MY YEAR IN PODCAST LISTENING (2016 PREVIEW)

7. MY YEAR IN PODCAST LISTENING (2017 PREVIEW)MY YEAR IN PODCAST LISTENING (2017 PREVIEW)

8. OUTLINEOUTLINE
Self-Tracking & Quanti ed Self
Media Tracking
Can I Track My Podcast Listening?
The Prototype & The Scraper
For the Love of Cron
What I've Learned?

9. I'M A DIGITAL DOCUMENTARIST.I'M A DIGITAL DOCUMENTARIST.
I am . I'm a tech entrepreneur, a
(mostly), a and...
Mark Koester web
developer writer

10. ... AND AN OBSESSIVE TRACKER!... AND AN OBSESSIVE TRACKER!

11. QUANTIFIED SELF: WHAT IS IT?QUANTIFIED SELF: WHAT IS IT?
Def 1: Tracking raw data to try and draw correlations
and ways to improve our lives from it.
Def 2: Measuring or documenting something about
your self such that it gains meaning.

12. WHAT DO I TRACK...?WHAT DO I TRACK...?

13. HEALTH & FITNESSHEALTH & FITNESS
Steps (Apple Watch)
Blood Pressure
Weight (digital scale and manual logging)
Heart Rate & Heart Rate Variability
Running & Cycling (Strava)
Sleep (AutoSleep app)
Supplements and Medicine (RoundHealth)
Strength Workouts (FitBod)
Daily Standing

14. TIME & PRODUCTIVITYTIME & PRODUCTIVITY
Computing Time (RescueTime)
Project Time (Toggl)
Mobile Screen Time (Moment app)
Tasks (Todoist)
Habits and Goals (via Streaks, Habitica, Productive)
Creative Written Words (Mac Word Counter app)

15. LEARNING & MEDIA CONSUMPTIONLEARNING & MEDIA CONSUMPTION
Books Read (GoodReads)
Articles Read (Pocket, Evernote)
TV and Movie Watching (Trakt.tv)
Music (Last.fm)

16. OTHER RANDOM STUFFOTHER RANDOM STUFF
NEW Photos Taken and Where ( )
Money & Finances (Mint)
Location (Moves app, Reporter App)
PhotoStats.io

17. EXPLORING AND VISUALIZING MY DATA:EXPLORING AND VISUALIZING MY DATA:
EXAMPLESEXAMPLES
A Year in Numbers: My Data From 2017

25. Media Tracking

26. Book Reading: GoodReads.com

27. Article Reading: Pocket, Evernote...

28. Music Listening: Last.fm

29. TV and Movies with Trakt.tv

34. MISSING MEDIA TRACKING:MISSING MEDIA TRACKING:
.
.
.
.
PODCASTSPODCASTS
Can I Track My Podcast Listening like GoodReads,
Trakt.tv, or Last.Fm?

35. PROBLEM: WHAT ABOUT TRACKING MY PODCAST LISTENING? IS IS POSSIBLE? HOW?PROBLEM: WHAT ABOUT TRACKING MY PODCAST LISTENING? IS IS POSSIBLE? HOW?

36. POCKET CAST APPPOCKET CAST APP
Limitations: No log of listening history, no export, no
breakdown of stats.

37. There is currently no app or web service to track your
podcast listening.
.
.
So let's build one!

38. How I Built a Podcast Tracking Web App with Drupal

39. The Prototype & The Scraper

40. INITIAL FEATURE LISTINITIAL FEATURE LIST
1. Basic data structure around Podcast Channels +
Episodes
2. Sync and update list of podcast episodes from an RSS
feed.
3. Logger to mark that you subscribe to a channel and
that you listened to an episode.

41. Starting Position: Panopoly Distro

42. Content Type: Podcast Channel

43. Content Type: Podcast Channel

45. Content Type: Episode

46. Entity Reference: Episode => Podcast

47. Storing Duration? Options...
https://www.drupal.org/project/interval
https://www.drupal.org/project/hms_ eld

48. Episode Page

49. Flag: Subscriptions and Listens

50. Flag: Logging an Episode Listen

51. Importing with Feeds: Podcast RSS creates Episodes

52. Python Scraper: Importing Initial Directory of Podcasts

53. Import Podcasts with RSS Feeds

54. Custom Code to Process and Add Additional Podcast
Data like cover image and other info from RSS Channel

55. Custom Code to Better Parse RSS Episode Duration
Info

56. Custom Code to Import OPML

57. Views: Listing of Subscribed Podcasts

58. Views: Listing of Latest Episodes from Subscribed
Podcasts

59. Views: Listens (+ export)

60. Views: My Total Listening Time

61. Views: My Total Listening Time

62. Views: Listens by Channel

64. For the Love of Cron

65. Cron Processes to Keep Things Up to Date

66. More Site Features and Improvements

67. RAW EXPORT OF MY PODCAST LISTENINGRAW EXPORT OF MY PODCAST LISTENING

68. VISUALIZING: MY YEAR IN PODCAST LISTENING (2017 (1))VISUALIZING: MY YEAR IN PODCAST LISTENING (2017 (1))

69. VISUALIZING: MY YEAR IN PODCAST LISTENING (2017 (2))VISUALIZING: MY YEAR IN PODCAST LISTENING (2017 (2))

71. VISUALIZING: MY YEAR IN PODCAST LISTENING (2017 (2))VISUALIZING: MY YEAR IN PODCAST LISTENING (2017 (2))

72. FUTURE FEATURESFUTURE FEATURES
Improved / Custom Design
API First?
Drupal 8?
Mobile App with React Native

73. PodcastTracker.com:
WHAT I'VE LEARNED?WHAT I'VE LEARNED?

74. DEVELOPMENT TIMEDEVELOPMENT TIME
The initial version took about 20 hours to build, and
since then I've spent about another 20-30 hours of
development.

75. STATS LOGGEDSTATS LOGGED
As of early Jan 2018, over 300 days worth of podcast
listening has been logged.

76. PodcastTracker.com:
WHAT I'VE LEARNED?WHAT I'VE LEARNED?

77. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME?WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME?
Personal Blog:
Linkedin:
Github:
Professional Portfolio:
Twitter:
AVAILABLE FOR HIRE:AVAILABLE FOR HIRE:
Builder for Web and Mobile, Drupal Dev, CTO, Technology Consultant
www.markwk.com
linkedin.com/in/markwkoester
markwk
Int3c.com/portfolio
@markwkoester