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Lenny Rachitsky Podcast Transcripts MCP Server

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Lenny Rachitsky Podcast Transcripts MCP Server is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 8 tools. Last commit 2 Dec 2025.

MCP server for structured access to Lenny Rachitsky podcast transcripts. For content creators.

Uptime history 39 hours of history
39 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
8
Tools
read from the server
177 ms
Response time
average over 24h
8
Stars
last commit 2 Dec 2025

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add lenny-rachitsky-podcast --transport http https://lenny-rachitsky.run.mcp.com.ai/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lenny-rachitsky-podcast": {
      "url": "https://lenny-rachitsky.run.mcp.com.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.lenny-rachitsky-podcast]
url = "https://lenny-rachitsky.run.mcp.com.ai/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lenny-rachitsky-podcast": {
      "url": "https://lenny-rachitsky.run.mcp.com.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lenny-rachitsky-podcast": {
      "url": "https://lenny-rachitsky.run.mcp.com.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 8

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

getepisodes
getEpisodes
List episodes - Lists episodes with parsed frontmatter (guest, title, duration, youtube_url, etc.) and their canonical resource URIs.
getepisodesguest
getEpisodesGuest
Get an episode card (metadata + key URIs)
getepisodesguestchunks
getEpisodesGuestChunks
List chunk descriptors for an episode - Returns chunk boundaries and URIs for chunk retrieval. Chunks may be computed on-demand using size/overlap parameters.
getepisodesguestchunkschunkidtxt
getEpisodesGuestChunksChunkIdtxt
Get a specific transcript chunk as plain text
getepisodesguestmetadatajson
getEpisodesGuestMetadatajson
Get episode metadata as JSON (frontmatter)
getepisodesguesttranscriptformat
getEpisodesGuestTranscriptformat
Get transcript in a specific format - Returns the transcript in the requested format: - md: markdown (may include or exclude frontmatter based on include_frontmatter) - txt: clean text (best for LLM ingestion) - json: structured form (metadata + transcript text)
getsearch
getSearch
Search episodes and transcripts - Searches across metadata (D1) and transcript text (Vectorize). Returns matches as resources, including per-hit URIs pointing to episode cards and transcript chunks. Note: pagination cursor applies to metadata search only. Example (vector search with filters): GET /search?q=pricing&mode=vector&guest=Marty%20Cagan&keywords=pricing,monetization&top_k=5
postsearch
postSearch
Search episodes and transcripts (POST body) - Same search as GET /search, but parameters are provided in the request body. This is useful for longer filter payloads.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://lenny-rachitsky.run.mcp.com.ai/mcp streamable-http answering 223 ms 8 min ago

Lenny Rachitsky Podcast Transcripts MCP Server — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Lenny Rachitsky Podcast Transcripts MCP Server do?
It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: getEpisodes, getEpisodesGuest, getEpisodesGuestChunks, getEpisodesGuestChunksChunkIdtxt, getEpisodesGuestMetadatajson, getEpisodesGuestTranscriptformat and 2 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Lenny Rachitsky Podcast Transcripts MCP Server working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 177 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Lenny Rachitsky Podcast Transcripts MCP Server?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Lenny Rachitsky Podcast Transcripts MCP Server need an API key?
No. Lenny Rachitsky Podcast Transcripts MCP Server completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 8 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Lenny Rachitsky Podcast Transcripts MCP Server?
It answers our handshake in 177 ms on average, which is faster than 67% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Lenny Rachitsky Podcast Transcripts MCP Server open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in HTML, 8 stars on GitHub and 2 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.