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Podcastindex MCP CLI — Data skill for Claude Code

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Podcast Index MCP server and CLI for Claude Code, Codex and AI agents.

How to install Podcastindex MCP CLI

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open thenavidm/podcastindex-mcp-cli and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Podcastindex MCP CLI does

Podcast Index MCP server and CLI for Claude Code, Codex and AI agents. 36 tools for podcast search, episode transcripts you can actually read and search, Podcasting 2.0 tags, value-for-value data, feed health and index stats.

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Podcast Index MCP Server & CLI

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One install gives you both surfaces, the same 36 tools under the same names, reading one array of tool definitions so they cannot drift apart.

It searches four million podcasts, and then it does the thing the API stops short of: it opens the transcript. Podcast Index hands out a link to an episode's transcript file and goes no further, which is useless to an assistant that cannot click. This fetches the file, works out whether it is SRT, WebVTT, JSON or HTML, and gives you the actual words with timestamps and speakers.

So you can ask when something was said, and get an answer.

There are 36 tools. One free key covers all but two of them.

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