NPR App now uses a different agent

[kookster]

They dropped the "One" with the new app release - here's an example of how it looks now:
NPR/618 CFNetwork/1485 Darwin/23.1.0

[johnspurlock]

Thanks - updated (and renamed) the NPR app record: f29095d

Happen to have an Android example?

[kookster]

I looked, but I didn't find a different Android value - I can only find "NPROneAndroid"

[jamescridland]

Podnews is in NPR One (and thus should be in NPR) if you want to delve deeper

[danielfrohlich-npr]

Here's some further details that may help.

URI Params

In the vast majority of cases the app will append "NPROne=true" to the media enclosure. This helps identify downloads when we don't have control over the user agent. This is especially true on Alexa but might be true on iOS and Andriod in some cases too. You can choose to ignore this but it can help.

User agents:

iOS: NPR/### CFNetwork/####.#.# Darwin/##.#.#

Android: two cases here

• User agents that contain nprone_android/#.#.#/OSv:##. The user agent string will likely begin with Dalvik, such as Dalvik/2.1.0 (Linux; U; Android 13; SM-G991U Build/TP1A.220624.014) nprone_android/3.7.0/OSv:13
• User agents that start with NPROneAndroid. This is being used for the audio player framework, so for files streamed on-demand

[kookster]

Hey Daniel, there is a standard for appending an identifier to the url parameters, which is to use a ?_from=NPROne query param.
https://github.com/opawg/podcast-rss-useragents?tab=readme-ov-file#alternatives

Any chance y'all could use that instead?
I know several hosts have already implemented support for _from.

Thanks for the Android info!

[danielfrohlich-npr]

I can take it back to the team, we've appending that now for years so Im not sure when that standard was developed.

[kookster]

I believe @jamescridland suggested it some time ago, but I have no idea, probably around the time y'all were figuring this out too

[johnspurlock]

Thanks Daniel, just added the nprone_android case in 53332d9

The other ones should already be covered