mcp-podcast-guest-host-finder

Podcast Guest and Host Finder MCP Server

An MCP server for the Mamba Labs Podcast Guest and Host Finder actor on Apify. Give it a topic, or Apple Podcasts links and RSS feeds. Each run returns one row per show with what you need to pitch it.

What's Inside

• What it does
• Quick start
• Prerequisites
• Example prompts
• Tool
• Inputs
• Pricing
• Your keys
• Full actor documentation
• License

What it does

Each row carries the host, the owner name and email the show publishes in its own RSS feed, episode count and cadence, an active flag, the share of episodes that name a guest, recent guest names (from podcast:person tags or episode titles), companies named beside guests, and the contact and be a guest pages on the show website. Shows come from the Apple Podcasts catalog for a topic, or from the links you give. A show whose feed cannot be read comes back free with Apple catalog fields only.

All of the work runs on Apify. This package is a thin client that starts the actor run, waits for it, and hands back the dataset rows.

Quick start

You need Node.js 18 or newer and an Apify account with an API token.

Add this to your Claude Desktop config (claude_desktop_config.json), Cursor, or any MCP client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mamba-podcast-guest-host-finder": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mambalabsdev/mcp-podcast-guest-host-finder"
      ],
      "env": {
        "APIFY_TOKEN": "your-apify-token"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart the client. The find_podcasts tool appears.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18 or newer.
• An Apify API token from console.apify.com/account/integrations, set as APIFY_TOKEN. The server lists its tool without a token; a call needs one.

Example prompts

• "Find 25 active B2B sales podcasts that interview guests, with the host email and the be a guest page."
• "Who were the recent guests on these three podcasts, and which companies were they from?"
• "List SaaS marketing podcasts that published in the last 90 days."

Tool

find_podcasts. One tool. Example arguments:

{
  "topic": "B2B sales",
  "max_podcasts": "25",
  "active_within_days": "90",
  "guest_shows_only": "true"
}

Inputs

Every buyer facing input of the actor, unchanged. Omitted inputs take the actor's own defaults. Numbers and booleans are sent as strings.

Input	Type	Description
topic	string	What the podcasts are about
topics	array	More topics, up to 20
podcast_urls	array	Apple Podcasts links or RSS feed URLs, up to 200
country	string	Apple Podcasts catalog country. Default us
max_podcasts	string	Shows per topic, 1 to 200. Default 25
episodes_to_read	string	Newest episodes read per show, 5 to 300. Default 50
active_within_days	string	Only shows with an episode in this many days
min_episodes	string	Only shows with at least this many episodes
guest_shows_only	string	true or false. Default false
find_contact_page	string	true or false. Default true
max_charge_usd	string	Optional cost cap for the run

Pricing

Pay per event on Apify, billed to your Apify account. Prices in USD.

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold
podcast-row, per show with its feed read	$0.004	$0.0038	$0.0036	$0.0034
apify-actor-start, per run start	$0.0005	$0.0005	$0.0005	$0.0005

A show whose feed could not be read, no results rows, and error rows are free.

Your keys

The actor needs no key. It reads the Apple iTunes Search API, public RSS feeds, and one page of each show website, and holds no key of any kind. Mamba Labs pays the platform and proxy costs of the run.

Full actor documentation

apify.com/mambalabs/podcast-guest-host-finder

License

MIT. See LICENSE.