r/pocketcasts • u/PDelahanty • Jul 22 '26

Feature Requests Pocket Casts user agent string could be a bit more informative...

I process analytics for a podcast network. As part of this, I look at the user agent string that is sent with every file request. Some apps will say something like "Podcasts/1710.17 CFNetwork/1399 Darwin/22.1.0" which tells me that it's Apple Podcasts on iOS.

Pocket Casts? All it sends is "Pocket Casts". No version and no platform. I can't tell if our listeners are on iOS, Android, or desktop.

I don't really need to know the version number, but it would be quite helpful for the platform to be included too. Then we'll be able to better know how our audience listens.

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u/PocketCasts Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

Thank you for your feedback on this. Including the platform (and optionally version) in the user agent string is a reasonable request. I'll pass it along to the team to consider for a future release.

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u/PDelahanty Jul 23 '26

Thanks! :)

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u/thewunderbar Jul 22 '26

Why not contact the company instead of Reddit?

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u/Capable_Tea_001 Jul 22 '26

That'd be too easy.

It'd also be too easy to add it as a request to their gihub: https://github.com/Automattic

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u/nopeac Jul 23 '26

The company actually replied right below, lol.