Podcasts MCP Server

by petabloom Your server? Claim it

answering

Podcasts is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

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

Uptime history 48 days of history · worst day 0%

48 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

410 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 1

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 11 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

11 Aug a tool changed version

Podcasts does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 33.6% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

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

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://podcasts.petabloom.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	414 ms	14 min ago

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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 410 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 410 ms on average, which is faster than 37% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.