RSS Enrichment
RSS enrichment is the process of extracting structured data from a podcast's RSS feed to augment PitchCentric's database. It is one of the core data ingestion mechanisms for building the podcast catalog.
How it works
PitchCentric's RSS enrichment pipeline fetches each podcast's RSS feed, parses the XML for episode metadata (titles, descriptions, enclosure URLs, publication dates), and extracts structured signals including hosting platform, episode cadence, average duration, and social links embedded in the feed. The enriched data updates the podcast record in the database.
Example
When RSS enrichment runs on a new podcast, it might discover that the show publishes every Tuesday, averages 45-minute episodes, hosts on Libsyn, includes a YouTube URL in the description, and has 200 published episodes since 2019 - all from the RSS feed alone.