@nichwall commented on GitHub (Nov 15, 2025):
FYI the documentation at https://api.audiobookshelf.org/ is about 2 years out of date. There is a notice at the top but it is easy to miss.
@indiefan commented on GitHub (Nov 17, 2025):
Are you using Android or iOS?
@noticons commented on GitHub (Nov 21, 2025):
@benn447 are you still experiencing this as of today? I did some checking, and I'm still experiencing the same issue.
@MikaSturm commented on GitHub (Nov 22, 2025):
I have the same problem with both of my Patreon subscriptions
@noticons commented on GitHub (Nov 25, 2025):
@MikaSturm If this really is an useragent issue, as it seems to be, it seems the only solution would be a backend change on the server? I'm…
@benn447 commented on GitHub (Nov 25, 2025):
Unfortuneately, this is still occuring. I suspect that the useragent has been detected as a bot on the cloudflare WAF or patreon has actively flagged…
@Vito0912 commented on GitHub (Nov 26, 2025):
It works completely fine for me. Maybe it's because you downloaded too many episodes, and Patreon protects its service by limiting how many episodes…
@nichwall commented on GitHub (Nov 26, 2025):
There are a number of user agent related issues and PRs, such as https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/4758, https://github.com/advplyr/aud…
@MikaSturm commented on GitHub (Nov 26, 2025):
I can confirm for my case, that it's not connected to the user agent, but the IP address of the server I host audiobookshelf on - thanks for the…
@Truth-And-Reason commented on GitHub (Nov 29, 2025):
Suggestion : Leave the user agent default as is , but in the podcast details section below "RSS Feed URL" add an input box for a user…
@noticons commented on GitHub (Dec 2, 2025):
This may be a simple problem that the private rss is being over-polled and cloudflare is blocking it. So, perhaps reducing from the automatic "every…
@noticons commented on GitHub (Dec 2, 2025):
I also modified my docker-compose file to set the TZ variable for proper time reporting so that my crons will run at the right time in the container,…
@advplyr commented on GitHub (Dec 2, 2025):
I've not seen Patreon have issues with the user agent before. The episode downloader is set up to try 2 different user agent strings.
['audiobook…
@benn447 commented on GitHub (Dec 2, 2025):
This issue might be resolved now, at least for myself.
I tested patreon downloads again yesterday and they were successful.
No cloudflare errors in…
@noticons commented on GitHub (Dec 3, 2025):
While there have been a lot of comments about adding useragent options, that has never been the intention of this thread as I opened it. My purpose…
@noticons commented on GitHub (Nov 21, 2025):
If that is the factor it began two weeks ago--roughly one week before the outage. Whatever the problem is, and I'm sure you're probably right about…