@thp Could we add an optional or secondary flag to set_podcast_attr() so it only sets the value if None? Then description could be the primary field and summary a secondary, no matter which order they are found in the feed.

Just got back to this! Sorry for the delay. Yes I can look into a suitable fallback behaviour :)

Here's a question, the episode description behaviour is similar to what I have suggested here so I wonder if this change-if-none behaviour should also be applied in this case.

I also noted how HTML is handled in description but not in the summary according to this. Is it accurate? Should the same happen for channel/description?

**rss/channel/item/description**
    Episode description.
    If it contains html, it's returned as description_html.
    Otherwise it's returned as description (whitespace is squashed).
    See Mozilla's article `Why RSS Content Module is Popular`

**rss/channel/item/itunes:summary**
    Episode description (whitespace is squashed).

Here's a question, the episode description behaviour is similar to what I have suggested here so I wonder if this change-if-none behaviour should also be applied in this case.

Yes. It would have the same issue, unless it already only changes if none.

I also noted how HTML is handled in description but not in the summary according to this. Is it accurate? Should the same happen for channel/description?

It could if the RSS spec supports HTML in channel descriptions. gPodder only supports HTML descriptions for episodes and would need to detect an HTML channel description and strip it.

Bump; is there anything left to do here or can this be merged? :)

I'll take another pass at this next week :)

I've updated this MR to include:

1. Support for the overwrite=True flag in PodcastAttrs
2. Behaviour to default to reading the description field in case both itunes:summary and description are present
3. Tests to confirm the behaviour
4. A version number bump for the package

Merged, thanks!

Hey @thp - will there be a new release soon? I'd like to update the library in my project :)

Hey @thp - will there be a new release soon? I'd like to update the library in my project :)

Done: 5ac16fa