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Podlink × Claude

Talk to your podcast.

Connect Podlink to Claude and your assistant can answer questions about your own show — downloads, listening apps, episodes, and what you actually said — from numbers measured by OP3, the open standard anyone can check.

You: how did my show do this week?

Claude: Your show had its downloads measured by OP3 — here’s the week, by episode and app, and what changed…

How it works

The actual process, not a diagram.

  1. 01

    Connect your feed to Podlink

    Free account, paste your RSS URL. Nothing migrates — Podlink reads the feed you already publish.

  2. 02

    Add the connector in Claude

    Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → https://app.podlink.ai/mcp — then approve the read-only grant. Requires Claude Pro or higher.

  3. 03

    Ask about your show

    “How did my show do this week?” “Which apps do my listeners use?” “What did I say in episode 12?” Claude answers from your real numbers and your own transcripts.

Why this exists

Podcast tools grade their own homework. This one doesn’t.

Your host counts your downloads, then reports your downloads. Podlink reads from OP3 — open, independent, checkable by the sponsor you’re pitching — and now your assistant can read the same numbers. Transcripts make it more than a dashboard: ask what you said, quote yourself accurately, and draft from the source.

Questions

The things people ask before signing.

What can Claude do once my podcast is connected?
Eight read-only things: your show overview with download stats, downloads by listening app, your episode list, your podlink.fm page, your page's views and link clicks, a recent-performance summary of your last five episodes, full-text search across your own episode transcripts, and reading any transcript. It composes them on its own — ask a bigger question and it uses several tools.
Why are the numbers trustworthy?
Downloads are measured by OP3, the open, independently operated podcast prefix — a source you (or a sponsor) can check without trusting us. We read what OP3 recorded; we can't flatter your show.
Is this safe to connect?
The connection is OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, every tool is declared read-only to Claude, tokens are scoped to your account only, and no tool accepts anyone's identity as input — there is no way to ask for another account's data. Rate limits and a daily cap protect against runaway agent loops. Revoke anytime from your Podlink dashboard.
Does it work with assistants other than Claude?
Yes — the server speaks standard MCP over Streamable HTTP with OAuth, so any MCP client that supports remote servers can connect with the same URL. Claude is what we test against first.
What does it cost?
The connector and the analytics reads are free on every Podlink plan. Transcribing an episode uses plan credits (you choose which episodes, never automatic); reading a transcript you've created is free.

Five minutes to your first answer.

Free Podlink account, one prefix, one connector. The setup guide walks every step — or email support@podlink.ai.