Pody MCP server

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.

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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/claudedesktopconfig.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claudedesktopconfig.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)

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

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":{}}'

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.