folderblog 0.2.10 adds one thing podcasters have been asking about: download numbers. If you publish a show with folderblog, you can now count how often your episodes are downloaded with OP3 , the free, open-source podcast stats service.

How it works

Add one line under [podcast] in blog.toml :

analytics_prefix = "https://op3.dev/e/"

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Every episode in your feeds then goes through OP3 in the form OP3 documents, including your show’s guid so OP3 can attribute downloads sooner. There’s no account to create. After a few days, your public stats page is at https://op3.dev/show/<your podcast guid> .

A few details:

It’s off by default. Existing feeds don’t change unless you add the line.

Only the feed changes. Uploads, the deploy’s size check and the player on your episode pages keep using your own address.…