🎙️ Pocket Casts Podcast API – Real-Time Podcasts, Episodes, Search & Audio Data

The Pocket Casts Podcast API is a powerful and developer-friendly API for accessing real-time podcast and episode data inspired by Pocket Casts-style content discovery workflows. It allows developers to search podcasts and episodes, fetch detailed podcast metadata, retrieve podcast ratings, recommendations, show notes, episode stream URL metadata, autocomplete suggestions, onboarding category feeds, popular lists, and category-based podcast collections.

This API is ideal for building podcast discovery apps, search engines, recommendation systems, analytics dashboards, audio content platforms, and automation tools. It exposes clean wrapper endpoints while keeping complex upstream Pocket Casts request handling internal, making integration simple and fast.

With this API, you can:

• 🔎 Search podcasts and episodes
• 🎧 Fetch podcast details and episode audio metadata
• ⭐ Get podcast ratings and recommendations
• 📝 Access show notes
• 🚀 Use autocomplete and combined search
• 📚 Browse onboarding categories and popular/category feeds
• 📈 Build podcast intelligence and discovery platforms.

🚀 Benefits

• ⚡ Real-time podcast and episode data
• 🔎 Search podcasts and episodes quickly
• 🎧 Get audio stream URL metadata
• ⭐ Fetch podcast ratings and recommendations
• 📝 Access show notes for podcasts
• 📚 Browse onboarding and category-based podcast collections
• 🚀 Autocomplete and combined search support
• 📱 Perfect for mobile apps, web apps, and podcast tools
• 🤖 Great for automation, content aggregation, and analytics
• 🛡️ Secure and easy integration via Openmarketplace

💡 Use Cases

• 🎙️ Build a podcast discovery app
• 🔎 Create a podcast search engine
• 🎧 Build a podcast player metadata backend
• 📈 Create a podcast analytics dashboard
• ⭐ Show ratings and recommendations in your app
• 📝 Display show notes and episode details
• 📚 Build category-based podcast browsers
• 🤖 Power automation bots or podcast aggregators
• 🚀 Add autocomplete search to podcast search interfaces
• 📱 Create mobile or web podcast recommendation platforms

📡 Endpoints Included

🎯 Onboarding Category Endpoints

• GET /onboarding-health
• GET /onboarding-comedy
• GET /onboarding-fiction
• GET /onboarding-news
• GET /onboarding-education
• GET /onboarding-technology
• GET /onboarding-business
• GET /onboarding-tv-film
• GET /onboarding-sports-recreation
• GET /onboarding-arts
• GET /onboarding-society-culture
• GET /onboarding-true-crime
• GET /onboarding-history
• GET /onboarding-science-medicine
• GET /onboarding-music
• GET /onboarding-games-hobbies
• GET /onboarding-kids-family
• GET /onboarding-gov-org

🔎 Search Endpoints

• POST /search-episodes
• POST /search-podcasts
• GET /autocomplete-search
• POST /combined-search

🎧 Podcast Detail Endpoints

• GET /podcast-details
• GET /podcast-rating
• GET /podcast-recommendations
• GET /show-notes

🎵 Episode / Media Endpoints

• GET /episode-url
• GET /media-audio

📈 Popular & Category Feed Endpoints

• GET /popular-us
• GET /category-true-crime-us
• GET /category-comedy-us
• GET /category-society-culture-us
• GET /category-history-us
• GET /category-fiction-us
• GET /category-technology-us

These endpoints are taken directly from your provided Pocket Casts wrapper documentation.

🧪 Request Notes

POST /search-episodes

Optional Param: term Example body:

{
  "term": "love"
}

POST /search-podcasts

Optional Param: q Example body:

q=life

POST /combined-search

Optional Param: term Example body:

{
  "term": "love"
}