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Apple Podcasts MCP Server

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Apple Podcasts Connect owner analytics over Reporter: plays, followers, episodes. Read-only.

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Apple Podcasts MCP Server tools (4)

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  • apple_podcasts_check_access

    Verify the configured Apple Podcasts Connect credentials and list the vendor numbers this access token can read. Run this first, and run it whenever another tool reports an auth failure: Reporter access tokens expire 180 days after they are generated, and the failure looks like a permissions problem rather than an expiry. Returns no listening data.

  • apple_podcasts_episodes

    Per-episode listening from Apple Podcasts Connect over a date range: plays, unique listeners, and engaged listeners for each episode, rolled up across the range and ranked. Answers 'which episodes held attention on Apple'. Apple aggregates from unique devices, so these are device counts, not headcounts, and an engaged listener is a device that played at least 20 minutes or 40% of an episode — a de

  • apple_podcasts_followers

    Follower trend for the show on Apple Podcasts over a date range: one value per period plus the change across the window. Use it for 'is my Apple following growing'. Read the resolvedColumn field in the response before interpreting the numbers: Apple's follower column has been both a running total and a per-period count, and which one you get changes what 'change' means.

  • apple_podcasts_summary

    Show-level listening summary from Apple Podcasts Connect over a date range: plays, unique listeners, engaged listeners, and followers, per period and totalled. Apple aggregates listening from unique devices, so listener counts are devices, not people, and an engaged listener is a device that played at least 20 minutes or 40% of an episode. This is the owner-side data Apple's hosting APIs do not ex

Public scan report

scanner v0.1.9 · 2026-09-24 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it

no findings
  • Code scan17 source files scanned25/25
  • –Live reliabilityno gateway calls yet and no remote to proben/a
  • –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (local package is not executed); not countedn/a
  • Auth qualitylocal package, no credentials required12/15
  • Maintenancelast push 0 days ago15/15
  • Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10
Overall 92/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON

How Apple Podcasts MCP Server compares

Against every graded MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.

Safety score
92/100
higher than 95% of 48,255 servers
Tools
4
the typical server has 7
Tools that change things
0%
typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
GitHub stars
1
more than 65% of 28,688 servers
Downloads a week
29
more than 16% of 12,191 servers with a package

What its tools let an agent do: 4 read

Install Apple Podcasts MCP Server in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code

Runs npx -y @conorbronsdon/apple-podcasts-mcp on your machine. Read the scan report first; the gateway never runs local packages.

claude mcp add apple-podcasts-mcp -- npx -y @conorbronsdon/apple-podcasts-mcp
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What the publisher says

From the Apple Podcasts MCP Server repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub

apple-podcasts-mcp

Owner-side Apple Podcasts analytics for AI agents: plays, followers, and per-episode listening, over the Apple Podcasts Connect Reporter protocol. Read-only.

An MCP server for the analytics Apple shows the person who owns the show: how many plays an episode got, how far into it people got, and whether the follower count is moving. That data lives behind Apple Podcasts Connect and the Reporter service, and it is not in Apple's public catalog API.

Nothing here has been checked against a live Apple account. The protocol is implemented from Apple's Reporter documentation and tested against fixtures written by hand. No request this server sends and no response it parses has been confirmed on the wire. If you run it against a real vendor number, an issue saying what came back is the most useful thing you can send.

You need an Apple Podcasters Program membership to use this at all. Reporter identifies you by a vendor number, and a vendor number is issued as part of the vendor relationship that Program enrollment creates. A standard free Podcasts Connect account does not have one: its Account → Details page shows an account UUID, which is a different identifier and will not work here. Enrollment costs an annual fee and requires a legal entity with tax and banking details. See Availability of Apple Podcasts features.

If you are not enrolled, there is nothing to configure and this server cannot help you — read your numbers in the Analytics section of Podcasts Connect instead.

Read-only. Reporter only reads. Nothing this server does can change a show, an episode, or an account.

What this does not do

This is not the iTunes Search / public catalog API. It does not look up shows by name, read public charts, fetch artwork, or return reviews and ratings. The other "Apple Podcasts" MCP servers I have looked at wrap the public catalog, which needs no credentials. This one needs your vendor number and your access token, and in exchange it returns your own listening data.

It also does not cover:

  • Subscriptions and revenue. Reporter has apSubscriptionsSales and friends. This server does not wrap them.
  • Anything before you had a Podcasts Connect account. Reporter reports on what Apple recorded for your vendor number.
  • Today. Apple publishes on a one-to-two day lag, so ranges default to ending two days back.
  • Downloads. Apple reports plays and listeners, which are not downloads. If you want download counts, use a hosting or prefix analytics source such as op3-mcp.

Tools

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.

Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.

Apple Podcasts MCP Server: common questions

Is Apple Podcasts MCP Server safe?
Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (92/100). Read the Apple Podcasts MCP Server safety report
How do I install Apple Podcasts MCP Server?
It runs on your machine. Copy the Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop config from the install section.
Does Apple Podcasts MCP Server need an API key?
No secret keys are declared. It reads 3 settings from the environment.
Is Apple Podcasts MCP Server maintained?
The last commit was 41 days ago (2026-09-24). The latest release is v0.2.0.
How does Apple Podcasts MCP Server compare with other MCP servers?
safety score 92/100 (higher than 95% of 48,255 servers); tools 4 (the typical server has 7); tools that change things 0% (typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break). Full comparison.

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