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Podcasts MCP Server

com.petabloom/podcasts
answering

Podcasts is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

An MCP server that provides tools to discover and retrieve podcast episodes transcripts.

Uptime history 43 hours of history
43 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
409 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

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

Available tools 5

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

episodes
search_episodes
Search indexed podcast episodes by keyword or show name and return the show/episode GUIDs needed for transcript retrieval.
search_episodes_by_topic
Semantic topic search across the podcast catalog. Unlike `search_episodes` (which does lexical/keyword matching), this tool understands meaning: a query for 'AI safety' will match episodes about 'AI alignment', 'AGI risk', or 'frontier model evaluation' even if they don't contain the exact phrase. Returns ranked episodes with the matched topic phrases so you can explain *why* each result is relevant before fetching the transcript. Best for conceptual or thematic queries — use `search_episodes` instead when the user is looking for a specific person, product, or verbatim phrase.
give
give_feedback
Send structured feedback about bugs, missing data, unclear behavior, or feature requests.
latest
get_latest_episodes
Return the most recent transcript-ready episodes across the full podcast catalog.
transcript
get_transcript
Fetch a bounded transcript chunk for a specific episode using its show and episode GUIDs. Use `next_cursor` to continue reading.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://podcasts.petabloom.com/mcp streamable-http answering 398 ms 9 min ago

Podcasts — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Podcasts do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_latest_episodes, get_transcript, give_feedback, search_episodes, search_episodes_by_topic. 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 Podcasts 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 409 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Podcasts?
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 Podcasts need an API key?
No. Podcasts completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Podcasts?
It answers our handshake in 409 ms on average, which is faster than 32% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.