Proxy

Requirements

  • Set the SERVER_URL environment variable to the url of the proxy.
  • Turn on websocket support in your proxy

You won't be able to use your service via the plain local url as the websocket connection will fail.

If the SERVER_URL starts with

  • https => Secured Websocket (wss)
  • http => Unsecured Websocket (ws)

Telegram

PodFetch can also send messages via Telegram if a new episode was downloaded.

To enable it you need to set the following variables:

VariableDescriptionexample
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKENThe Bot token that you can acquire from Botfather with /newbotasdj23:hsifuhi234klerlf...sadasd
TELEGRAM_BOT_CHAT_IDThe chat id of the chat where the bot should send the messages123456789
TELEGRAM_API_ENABLEDIf the telegram api should be enabled.true

You can acquire the Telegram Bot chat id with the following steps:

  1. Write a message to the bot
  2. Open the following url in your browser: Telegram API page
  3. Search for the chat id in the response