`search_podcast_transcript`

Pack: pod-researcher · Connect: https://pipeworx.io/mcp (see Connect below for a single-pack URL)

No MCP client? Call it directly: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_podcast_transcript for the schema, then POST the same URL with its arguments for the data.

What a podcast episode actually said about a topic, with timestamps: fetches the episode’s publisher-provided transcript (Podcasting 2.0 podcast:transcript, as SRT, WebVTT, JSON, plain text or HTML) and returns the passages that match a query, each with start and end time, the speakers when the file names them, and the matched words. Defaults to the newest episode that has a transcript; name one by guid, URL, episode number or title words. A plain-text transcript without timing is returned as text passages with a note. An episode with no publisher transcript is reported as such with the episodes that do have one.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	yes	Words to find in the transcript, e.g. “advertising revenue” or “value for value”.
`episode`	string	no	Which episode: guid, page or audio URL, episode number (“273”), or words from its title. Default: the newest episode with a transcript.
`format`	string	no	Preferred transcript format when the episode offers several. Default: JSON, then WebVTT, then SRT, then text.
`limit`	integer	no	Passages to return, 1-50 (default 10).
`window_seconds`	integer	no	How much transcript each passage spans, 10-180 seconds (default 30).

Example call

Arguments

{
  "id": "920666",
  "query": "advertising",
  "limit": 5
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pod-researcher/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_podcast_transcript","arguments":{"id":"920666","query":"advertising","limit":5}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('search_podcast_transcript', {
  "id": "920666",
  "query": "advertising",
  "limit": 5
});

More examples

{
  "id": "https://feeds.podcastindex.org/pc20.xml",
  "query": "value for value",
  "episode": "273",
  "format": "srt"
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config — every tool in the catalog, including this one — or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Connect to just the pod-researcher pack

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pod-researcher": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pod-researcher/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

search_podcast_transcript