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[Bug]: User agent error while downloading podcast episodes #3044
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Originally created by @Gloopzlemeep on GitHub (Oct 20, 2025).
What happened?
For the last couple of weeks, new episodes for Lemonade Stand Podcast have failed to download.
Getting error related to User-Agent.
What did you expect to happen?
Episode downloads
Steps to reproduce the issue
Audiobookshelf version
v2.30.0
How are you running audiobookshelf?
Docker
What OS is your Audiobookshelf server hosted from?
Linux
If the issue is being seen in the UI, what browsers are you seeing the problem on?
None
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@Gloopzlemeep commented on GitHub (Oct 21, 2025):
I assume the issue is just on the podcast pprovider end not accepting the ABS user agent but is there anything that can be done on the ABS end to mitigate? Like the ability to manually change the User Agent used when downloading a particular podcast?
@AlexanderMcColl commented on GitHub (Nov 2, 2025):
I get the same error from a megaphone.fm feed.
For me, the podcast is Triggernometry, rss feed is: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/AALT9618167458
[ffmpegHelpers] Failed to download podcast episode with User-Agent "audiobookshelf (+https://audiobookshelf.org; like iTMS)" for url "https://pdst.fm/e/prfx.byspotify.com/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/s.gum.fm/s-65a84022ad283b3c6fda9305/mgln.ai/e/p63400/mgln.ai/e/137/traffic.megaphone.fm/AALT8622187185.mp3?updated=1753933126"
Going to this address in a browser, after some redirects, I end up at https://dcs-spotify.megaphone.fm/AALT8622187185.mp3?key=9bcad9c14a756923a992bcb60f90f6c6&request_event_id=131443a8-7097-47f2-9dd1-affe5ec3b15a&session_id=131443a8-7097-47f2-9dd1-affe5ec3b15a&timetoken=1762115802_612DB2373CA5822C03F7F693253FA5F6
Here, I'm served the mp3 file just fine, so if we could customise the user-agent we're sending, that ought to do it?