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Podcast transcripts as clean Markdown with real speaker names — via the Spoken API.

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Spoken tools (8)

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  • follow_podcastFree

    Declare a follow for a show, or clear a mute. Pass a podcast_id from search_podcasts. A declared follow stays until unfollow_podcast, regardless of fetch activity, and does not use one of the five automatic slots. For a show never fetched, what counts as new starts from its newest episode now. Does not consume credits.

  • get_balanceFree

    Check the current Spoken credit balance, account email, and recent usage for the configured API key. Does not consume credits.

  • get_transcriptFree

    Fetch a podcast episode's transcript as clean Markdown with real speaker names and timestamps. Pass an episode id from search_podcasts. Costs 1 credit on the first fetch of an episode; repeat fetches are free and errors are never charged.

  • list_episodesFree

    List a podcast's entire back-catalog (every episode, newest first). Pass a podcast_id from a search_podcasts result. Returns each episode's id, title, and date — fetch any with get_transcript. Use this to transcribe a whole show. Does not consume credits itself; transcribing the returned episodes costs 1 credit each (repeat fetches are free), so make sure the key has enough credits before looping.

  • list_followingFree

    The shows this key is kept current on. Every charged fetch makes its show a follow: the five most-fetched shows from the last 180 days are followed automatically (source 'fetch'), and up to 25 more can be declared with follow_podcast (source 'explicit'). Muted shows are listed separately. Use list_new_episodes to see what is new on them. Does not consume credits; the demo key has nothing to follow with.

  • list_new_episodesFree

    What is new on the shows this key follows: for each show, the episodes released in the last 90 days that are newer than the newest one already fetched from it (up to 10 per show), each with a transcript_url. Episodes with no transcript are left out. Fetch any with get_transcript (1 credit each on first fetch); a fetch raises that show's floor, so the next call lists only what came after. Refreshed hourly, so a show followed moments ago may be empty until its first poll. Does not consume credits.

  • search_podcastsFree

    Search published podcast episodes by text query, or paste an episode URL (Spotify, YouTube, etc.). Returns matching episodes with their id, title, podcast, podcast_id, and date. Use the id with get_transcript, or the podcast_id with list_episodes to get the show's whole back-catalog. Does not consume credits.

  • unfollow_podcastFree

    Mute a show: it leaves the followed list and later fetches do not re-add it. follow_podcast reverses it. Pass a podcast_id from list_following. Does not consume credits.

Public scan report

scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-11-03 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it

no findings
  • Code scan5 source files scanned25/25
  • Live reliabilityremote reachable in 1722ms20/20
  • Tool poisoning8 tool descriptions checked15/15
  • Auth qualityAPI key sent as a header8/15
  • Maintenancelast push 28 days ago15/15
  • Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner7/10
Overall 90/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON

How Spoken compares

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

Safety score
90/100
higher than 82% of 1,331 Media servers
Tools
8
the typical Media server has 7
Tools that change things
0%
typical: 6%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
Uptime
100%
of our recent checks; the typical remote Media server answers 100%
Response time
259 ms
faster than 54% of 860 Media servers
GitHub stars
5
more than 82% of 727 Media servers
Downloads a week
138
more than 66% of 422 Media servers with a package

What its tools let an agent do: 8 read

Release history: 3 versions in the registry since 2026-08-12, latest 2026-10-06, typically one every 43 days.

Install Spoken in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code

claude mcp add --transport http spoken https://spoken.md/mcp
Add to Cursor

What the publisher says

From the Spoken repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub

Spoken — podcast transcript API and MCP server, clean Markdown with real speaker names

Spoken is a transcript API that turns any published podcast into clean Markdown with real speaker names — not "Speaker 1." One API call returns named, timestamped text, ready for LLMs, RAG pipelines, summarizers, and search. This repo also ships spoken-mcp, an MCP server that gives Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and Cline the same transcripts as tools — see Use as an MCP server.

It's a transcript retrieval API, not a speech-to-text service: it works on already-published podcasts, so you skip uploading audio, running diarization, and mapping anonymous speaker labels by hand. For published shows that's typically 5–10× cheaper than running the audio through a transcription service.

  • 🎙️ Real speaker names, resolved automatically
  • 📄 Clean Markdown with timestamps, tuned for LLM context windows and RAG chunking
  • 🔎 Search by text query or paste a Spotify/YouTube URL
  • 💳 Pay-per-use credits — no subscription, failed calls never charged, repeat fetches free
  • 🤖 Agent-native — ships with an Agent Skill, agents.md, llms.txt, and an OpenAPI spec

Get a key at spoken.md — or try it free with the demo key pt_demo (search works fully; transcripts limited to the demo episode).

Quickstart

# 1. Find an episode (by text, or paste a Spotify/YouTube URL)
curl -s 'https://spoken.md/search?q=huberman+sleep' \
  -H 'x-api-key: pt_demo'

# 2. Fetch the transcript as Markdown
curl -s 'https://spoken.md/transcripts/1000651996090' \
  -H 'x-api-key: pt_demo'

The transcript comes back as Markdown with named speakers and timestamps:

**John Smith** (0:00)
Welcome to the show. Today we're talking about...

**Jane Doe** (0:15)
Thanks for having me.

Endpoints

Auth is the x-api-key header. Responses include X-Credits-Remaining and X-Credits-Charged. See agents.md for the full error table and response shapes.

Examples

  • examples/podcast_summarizer.py — fetch a transcript and summarize it
  • examples/rag_pipeline.py — chunk a transcript for a vector store / RAG
  • examples/quickstart.sh — search → transcript in two curl calls
  • examples/archive-show.sh — archive a show's entire back catalogue, one file per episode

Use from Python

The spoken-md package wraps the API with no dependencies outside the standard library, and installs a spoken-md command.

pip install spoken-md
from spoken_md import Spoken

spoken = Spoken()                                  # SPOKEN_API_KEY, or the demo key
episode = spoken.search("huberman sleep")[0]
print(spoken.transcript(episode.id))               # Markdown with real speaker names

archive(podcast_id, skip=...) walks a whole show and is resumable; errors are typed by status (PaymentRequired carries the top-up URL, NotFound means no transcript). See python/README.md.

Use as an MCP server

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.

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

Grade history

  • 2026-11-03restoreB → Ascore 90

Spoken: common questions

Is Spoken MCP server safe?
Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (90/100). Read the Spoken safety report
How do I install Spoken?
It runs remotely at spoken.md. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
Does Spoken need an API key?
Yes. The registry entry asks for SPOKEN_API_KEY, Authorization.
Is Spoken maintained?
The last commit was 40 days ago (2026-10-06). The latest release is v0.4.3.
Is Spoken up?
100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
What can I use instead of Spoken?
Servers from other publishers that do the same job: anymd MCP server, Katto MCP server and Remove AI Watermarks MCP server.
How does Spoken compare with other Media MCP servers?
safety score 90/100 (higher than 82% of 1,331 Media servers); tools 8 (the typical Media server has 7); tools that change things 0% (typical: 6%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break). Full comparison.

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