Hemin is a podcast catalog & search engine infrastructure. It’s engine is written in Scala, uses MongoDB to store the podcast/episode/feed catalog, and indexes the data with Solr. The REST API relies on the Play framework for routing and JSON. The server is fully asynchronous, and makes heavy use of Akka actors and Scala Futures. The current web client is written in Typescript and builds on the Angular framework Elm.
⚠️ Early development status warning
The Hemin infrastructure is still in the early development phase and not yet ready for full productive use.
The system currently supports the following standards:
- Syndication feeds in RSS 2.0 or Atom (RFC 4287) format
- Metadata from Apple’s Podcasts Connect XML namespace (“iTunes tags”)
- Chapter marks in Podlove Simple Chapter format
Support for the following standards is planned: