podcasts.listennotes.search
Full-text search across 3.7M+ podcasts and 186M+ episodes. Search by keyword, filter by language and genre, sort by relevance or date. Returns episode titles, podcast names, audio URLs, and duration. The most comprehensive podcast search API available (Listen Notes)
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What podcasts.listennotes.search does on Apibase
AI agents call podcasts.listennotes.search to retrieve information from Apibase without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
q | string | Yes | Search query — full-text search across 186M+ podcast episodes and 3.7M+ podcasts (e.g. "artificial intelligence", "startup funding", "true crime") |
type | string | — | Search type: "episode" (default) searches episode titles/descriptions, "podcast" searches podcast-level metadata |
limit | integer | — | Max results (1-10, default 10) |
offset | integer | — | Offset for pagination |
language | string | — | ISO 639-1 language code (e.g. "en", "es", "fr"). Filters results by podcast language |
genre_ids | string | — | Comma-separated genre IDs to filter (e.g. "93,127" for Business+Technology). See Listen Notes genre list |
sort_by_date | boolean | — | Sort by date (true) or relevance (false, default) |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why podcasts.listennotes.search is rated Low
Read-only search operation that retrieves and queries podcast data without side effects.
From the tool's definition Full-text search across podcasts and episodes. Returns episode titles, podcast names, audio URLs, duration.
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The rule that runs podcasts.listennotes.search safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For podcasts.listennotes.search, this is the rule to start with:
podcasts.listennotes.search is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Apibase, apply this rule, and every podcasts.listennotes.search call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about podcasts.listennotes.search
Full-text search across 3.7M+ podcasts and 186M+ episodes. Search by keyword, filter by language and genre, sort by relevance or date. Returns episode titles, podcast names, audio URLs, and duration. The most comprehensive podcast search API available (Listen Notes). It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
podcasts.listennotes.search accepts 7 parameters: q, type, limit, offset, language, genre_ids, sort_by_date. Required: q. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for podcasts.listennotes.search: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Apibase. Nothing to install.
podcasts.listennotes.search is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the podcasts.listennotes.search rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for podcasts.listennotes.search. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
podcasts.listennotes.search is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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