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Playbook

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Podscan

Podscan indexes and transcribes the podcast ecosystem and exposes full-text search across every transcript.

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When to use

  • “Find every podcast where was discussed.”
  • “Who talked about on a podcast?” — episode transcripts carry structured host/guest metadata (name, company, occupation, industry).
  • Social-listening / brand-monitoring over spoken audio, not just text.
  • Sourcing warm outbound targets: podcast guests who discussed your category are high-intent, self-identified buyers.

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Operations

  • podscan_episodes_search — full-text transcript search. Returns matching episodes with the matched _search_highlight snippet, the parent podcast, metadata.hosts[] / metadata.guests[] (name + company + occupation), and AI-extracted topics[] with sentiment. Use quoted phrases for precision, e.g. "customer interviews". Full transcripts are omitted by default (they are large); pass include_transcript: true only when you need them.
  • podscan_podcasts_search — discover shows by title/description.

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Tips

  • Quote multi-word phrases to avoid loose matches.
  • pagination.total gives the corpus-wide mention count for a query — useful for sizing before pulling pages.
  • language filters by ISO 639-1 code (e.g. en) and is honored by the API. Date and category filtering are not currently exposed because Podscan’s documented search surface does not reliably support them.
  • Turn guests into contactable leads by piping guest_name + guest_company into LinkedIn resolution and an email waterfall.

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Auth & billing

Deepline supplies the Podscan credential (PODSCAN_API_KEY). Deepline bills one Podscan credit ($0.01) per successful search — a well-formed response with at least one result. Zero-match searches are free; a malformed provider response is rejected rather than billed as an empty result.

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Rate limits

Podscan rate-limits aggressively (roughly 10 req/min on trial plans, higher on paid). The connector applies a conservative shared limit and surfaces upstream 429s; prefer deepline enrich, which paces requests automatically.