Rephonic MCP Server

Give AI agents and LLMs access to podcast data from Rephonic — covering 3+ million podcasts with listener estimates, demographics, contact details, chart rankings, episodes, and more.

This is a remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor to the Rephonic API.

Ideas and Use Cases

• Read, summarise and analyse transcripts — grab a full-text transcript for almost any podcast episode

• Search and discover podcasts — find shows by topic, category, or audience fit

• Research podcasts for guest pitching — see listener numbers, audience demographics, and contact details without leaving your AI workflow

• Monitor brand mentions — track when your brand, competitors, or clients are mentioned across podcasts

• Analyze audience demographics — age, education, profession, income, and location breakdowns for any podcast

• Track chart rankings — daily Apple, Spotify, and YouTube chart data across countries and categories

• Monitor sponsorships and promotions — see who's advertising on which shows, with ad copy and promo codes

• Build media lists — pull verified email contacts, social accounts, and host/guest info at scale

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Tools

• search_podcasts — Search for podcasts by topic, title, or publisher with advanced filters.

• search_episodes — Search for episodes by keyword across titles, show notes, and transcripts.

• autocomplete — Get suggested keywords and matching podcasts for a search query.

• find_podcast — Resolve a Rephonic podcast from an Apple/iTunes ID, Spotify ID, YouTube channel ID, or RSS feed URL. Use this first when you already have one of those identifiers.

• lookup_podcast — Look up a podcast's metadata, chart rankings, and latest episodes by its Rephonic ID.

• podcast_people — Get hosts and guests of a podcast with contact details and social profiles.

• podcast_demographics — Get estimated listener demographics (age, education, profession, income, location).

• podcast_promotions — Get sponsors and cross-promotions from a podcast's episodes.

• list_episodes — List all episodes for a podcast in chronological order.

• get_episode — Look up metadata for an individual episode.

• episode_transcript — Get the full transcript for an episode.

• contacts — Get email contacts, contact pages, and social accounts for a podcast.

• social_accounts — Get social media accounts linked to a podcast with follower/engagement metrics.

• feedback — Get overall ratings and AI-generated review summaries for a podcast.

• reviews — Get individual listener reviews from various apps.

• trends — Get historical trends for podcast metrics over time.

• shared_audience_graph — Get podcasts with overlapping listeners.

• chart_categories — List available chart categories and countries for Apple, Spotify, or YouTube.

• chart_rankings — Get the latest chart rankings for a platform, country, and category.

• list_categories — List podcast categories (for use with search filters).

• list_countries — List countries (for use with search filters).

• list_languages — List languages (for use with search filters).

• list_sponsors — List commonly seen sponsors (for use with search filters).

• list_professions — List common listener professions (for use with search filters).

• list_interests — List common listener interests (for use with search filters).

• api_quota — Check your API request quota and usage.

Setup

You need a Rephonic API key. Get one here.

ChatGPT

1. Go to Settings → Apps → Advanced settings and enable Developer mode

2. Then click Create app

3. Enter Name: Rephonic

4. Enter MCP Server URL: https://mcp.rephonic.com

5. Click Create and enter your Rephonic API key when prompted

Claude.ai

1. Go to Settings → Connectors

2. Click Add custom connector and enter name Rephonic and MCP server URL https://mcp.rephonic.com

3. Click Add and enter your Rephonic API key when prompted

Claude Desktop

Add to your config file and restart Claude Desktop:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rephonic": {
      "url": "https://mcp.rephonic.com"
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

Add to your project's .mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rephonic": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.rephonic.com"
    }
  }
}

Cursor

Go to Settings → MCP → Add new MCP server. Set type to URL and enter https://mcp.rephonic.com.

If you want to fork or customize this MCP server for your own needs, here is how you can run or deploy it.

Prerequisites

• Node.js

• A Cloudflare account (for deployment)

Local dev

npm install
npm start

The server runs at http://localhost:8788. Test with the MCP Inspector:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector@latest

Type-check

npm run type-check

Regenerate Cloudflare types

After changing wrangler.jsonc:

npm run cf-typegen