Erik Simmler

Internaut, software developer and irregular rambler

How to mark a podcast feed as private

Adding an <itunes:block>Yes</itunes:block> tag to a feed will instruct complying podcast directories (such as Overcast or iTunes) to not list that feed publicly. I also found mentions of a <googleplay:block> tag, but even Googleā€™s own docs only seem to mention the iTunes tag.

I havenā€™t found an equivalent for JSON Feed, but Iā€™m still not sure how widespread support actually is, especially among podcast players.

Iā€™m only writing this up because it was strangely difficult to find any useful info when I initially searched for things like ā€œmark podcast feed privateā€ or ā€œrss private tagā€. Most of the results were from paid podcasts hosts with no technical details.