Podcast Index MCP Server MCP Server

Name: Podcast Index MCP Server MCP Server
Author: io.github.conorbronsdon

io.github.conorbronsdon/podcastindex-mcp

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What is the Podcast Index MCP Server MCP server?

Search the Podcast Index: podcasts, episodes, person appearances, trending, feed health.

How to install Podcast Index MCP Server

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

PODCASTINDEX_API_KEY
required
Podcast Index API key — free at https://api.podcastindex.org
PODCASTINDEX_API_SECRET
required
Podcast Index API secret issued with your API key

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "podcastindex-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "podcastindex-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PODCASTINDEX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PODCASTINDEX_API_KEY>",
        "PODCASTINDEX_API_SECRET": "<YOUR_PODCASTINDEX_API_SECRET>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "podcastindex-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "podcastindex-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PODCASTINDEX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PODCASTINDEX_API_KEY>",
        "PODCASTINDEX_API_SECRET": "<YOUR_PODCASTINDEX_API_SECRET>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "podcastindex-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "podcastindex-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PODCASTINDEX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PODCASTINDEX_API_KEY>",
        "PODCASTINDEX_API_SECRET": "<YOUR_PODCASTINDEX_API_SECRET>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "podcastindex-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "podcastindex-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PODCASTINDEX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PODCASTINDEX_API_KEY>",
        "PODCASTINDEX_API_SECRET": "<YOUR_PODCASTINDEX_API_SECRET>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add podcastindex-mcp --env PODCASTINDEX_API_KEY=<YOUR_PODCASTINDEX_API_KEY> --env PODCASTINDEX_API_SECRET=<YOUR_PODCASTINDEX_API_SECRET> -- npx -y podcastindex-mcp