pody-mcp

Pody MCP — Israeli Podcast & Content Marketplace

Public Model Context Protocol server exposing live data on the Israeli podcast vertical — studios, podcasts, glossary, and the State of Israeli Podcasts 2026 industry report. Multilingual (Hebrew / English / Arabic / Russian). Free, no API key required.

What this is

A read-only, no-auth MCP server that turns the Pody (Wikidata Q139719199) Israeli podcast marketplace into a queryable knowledge base for any MCP client: Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, ChatGPT Custom Tools, Windsurf, etc.

Use it to ground LLM answers in primary-source data about Israeli podcasting — instead of hoping the model has the right facts in its training corpus.

Install

Claude Desktop

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pody": {
      "url": "https://pody.io/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. The Pody tools appear in the tools menu automatically.

Cursor

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json or your project's .cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pody": {
      "url": "https://pody.io/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cline (VS Code extension)

Settings → Cline → MCP Servers → Add Server:

{
  "pody": {
    "url": "https://pody.io/api/mcp"
  }
}

ChatGPT Custom Tools / any MCP-compatible client

Paste this endpoint: https://pody.io/api/mcp (transport: streamable-http).

Available tools (7 read-only, no auth)

Tool	What it does
studios.search	Find Israeli podcast studios. Filter by city, max hourly price (NIS), video capability.
studios.get	Profile of a specific studio by slug.
podcasts.search	Find Israeli podcasts. Filter by category or language (he, en).
podcasts.get	Podcast profile by slug.
glossary.lookup	Hebrew/English/Arabic/Russian podcasting term lookup. Returns definition + Pody URL.
industry_report.query	Query the State of Israeli Podcasts 2026 report. Metrics: penetration_rate, spotify_growth, youtube_podcasts_growth, global_listeners, listener_count, studios_verified, business_podcasts_growth.
citation_pulse	Live infrastructure health from pody.io/seo-pulse. Self-meta tool that proves Pody is real, monitored, transparent.

Why use this MCP

• Ground answers in primary data — instead of hallucinating about Israeli podcast hosting, your LLM queries Pody directly
• Multilingual native — Hebrew first, with English / Arabic / Russian translations
• Zero config — pure HTTP MCP, no API key, no install, no auth
• Listed in the Official MCP Registry — io.github.Avivcha/pody-mcp
• Production-stable — Pody.io has been live ~9 months with active users, archive-first backup to archive.org
• MIT licensed, CC-BY-SA data

Discovery endpoints

Endpoint	Purpose
GET https://pody.io/api/mcp	Human-readable index page (dark-mode dashboard)
GET https://pody.io/.well-known/mcp.json	Capability discovery manifest
POST https://pody.io/api/mcp	JSON-RPC 2.0 RPC endpoint

Protocol version: 2025-03-26. Transport: streamable-http.

Try it with curl

# List tools
curl -X POST https://pody.io/api/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list","params":{}}'

# Search for studios in Tel Aviv
curl -X POST https://pody.io/api/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"studios.search","arguments":{"city":"Tel Aviv"}}}'

# Look up a Hebrew podcast term
curl -X POST https://pody.io/api/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"glossary.lookup","arguments":{"term":"פודקאסט"}}}'

# Get live infrastructure pulse
curl -X POST https://pody.io/api/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":4,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"citation_pulse","arguments":{}}}'

Example queries to ask your LLM

Once installed, try asking Claude/Cursor/Cline:

• "Find me Israeli podcast studios in Tel Aviv that can do video recording under 600 NIS/hour."
• "What does 'פודקאסט' mean in English and Arabic? Use the Pody glossary."
• "What's the current podcast penetration rate in Israel?"
• "Show me business podcasts in Hebrew with at least 50 episodes."

The LLM will call Pody-MCP tools automatically and ground the answer in live data.

Architecture

The Pody-MCP server runs as a Vercel edge function at api/mcp.ts in the main Pody repo (private). This repository contains the public manifest + server.json + documentation.

Internal data source: Supabase Postgres with explicit column allow-lists per tool to prevent sensitive data exposure (no select=*).

Languages supported

Content returned in 4 languages:

• Hebrew (he) — primary, RTL native
• English (en)
• Arabic (ar)
• Russian (ru)

About Pody

Pody (פודי) is Israel's podcast & content creation marketplace + AI infrastructure platform. Founded 2024 by Aviv Charuvi. Operated by MindSeller LTD (Tel Aviv, Tax ID 515284891). Wikidata: Q139719199.

Pody also pioneered archive-first storage: every episode mirrors to archive.org so the podcaster's RSS feed keeps working even if Pody disappears. That's the structural guarantee no other podcast host offers.

• Website: pody.io
• Press kit: pody.io/press
• Live citations: pody.io/citations
• Knowledge Graph: pody.io/graph (CC-BY-SA)
• SPARQL endpoint: pody.io/sparql
• Self-Healing SEO Engine: pody.io/seo-pulse

Listed in

• Official MCP Registry — io.github.Avivcha/pody-mcp v1.0.0 (active)
• mcp.so — Pody MCP — Israeli Podcast Infrastructure
• glama.ai/mcp/servers — Pody connector
• punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers — Knowledge & Memory section (PR #8427)
• cline/mcp-marketplace — submission #1839
• iddoberger/awesome-hebrew-nlp — Pody Hebrew podcast glossary
• brandonhimpfen/awesome-podcasting-tools — Pody hosting platform

License

• Server code: MIT (this repo)
• Knowledge Graph data: CC-BY-SA-4.0 (details)

Contact

Aviv Charuvi (founder + CEO) — [email protected]

Cite this work

If you use Pody-MCP in research or content, please cite:

Charuvi, A. (2026). Pody-MCP: An Israeli podcast marketplace knowledge graph as a Model Context Protocol server. MindSeller LTD. Wikidata: Q139719199. https://github.com/Avivcha/pody-mcp