My private podcast rss feed shows up in Plex search, please remove it

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Hello Plex Support, I’d like to express my love to the community but I believe my problem can only be solved by the support staff.

I’d like to have my podcast RSS removed from the global Plex database and the search results.

I have a Patreon and one of my listeners said that they weren’t able to add my Patreon podcast RSS feed to their Plex client. I checked if I was able to reproduce the issue. Now it seems like my private feed is openly available in the Plex podcast search. See image: image

I’d like to ask you to remove this podcast from the search database, considering it’s a private feed.

Thank you and sorry for the confusion, it was not clear that any podcast that’s added in the client automatically gets into the search index.

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Hi,
the way this usually works is that adding a URL at your account level, it’ll be included into your feed / Podcasts section. You’ll be able to access it from there or find it using the Plex search. However it’s not being added to a global database / published otherwise.

I’ve asked around and according to what I could find, this Podcast is not generally available / published. If you want it to be removed from your own account you should be able to do that right from within Plex.

From the Podcasts Overview support article:

Removing

You can remove a podcast from My Podcasts in several ways:

  • From an episode On Deck use the … menu and choose to remove from My Podcasts
  • On the preplay screen for that podcast in the web app, click the In My Podcasts button so that the green checkmark disappears
  • In mobile apps click the … menu and choose to remove

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Thank you so much, tom80H, you truly are a Plex Ninja :slight_smile:

Actually I also found that support article and followed the instructions, but the podcast was still showing up in my search. That’s why I posted here in the first place. But since you confirmed that the show doesn’t appear for anyone else, I can only assume that it got added to a local index on my machine.

So do you think that this means that I can freely recommend my listeners to use Plex and this won’t expose their own private RSS feed URLs to the global audience? I was under the assumption that every RSS added to Plex gets into the global database.

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