Captivate

Captivate is a growth-oriented podcast hosting, distribution, and analytics platform. Its public REST API at https://api.captivate.fm lets developers authenticate a user, read and manage shows and their RSS feeds, create and update episodes, upload and search media (audio) files, and pull detailed listening analytics (insights) at the podcast and episode level. Access is self-serve - any account holder can generate a user ID and API token from the API section of their Captivate account and exchange them for a Bearer token. The API is documented as a public Postman collection at docs.captivate.fm.

Captivate publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Analytics API, Authentication API, Episodes API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Podcasts, Podcast Hosting, Episodes, Media, and Analytics.

The Captivate catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Captivate’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, documentation, and 11 more developer resources.

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29.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Front door AI 3/6 light Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

Podcasts Podcast Hosting Episodes Media Analytics RSS

What this lets a business do 2

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Audience Measurement & Insights Management

BC-3770

Analytics

GET /insights/{showId}/overview GET /insights/{showId}/overview/{episodeId} POST /insights/{showId}/compare

Media Asset Management

BC-3710

Media

POST /shows/{id}/media GET /shows/{id}/media GET /shows/{id}/media/search

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 29.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.8 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 15

Access Clarity 1.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented) Ask about this →
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Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented) Ask about this →

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Access Clarity scores 6.4 — up to +18.7 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 32.1 — up to +13.6 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Quality scores 52.0 — up to +12.0 composite points Ask about this →

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Podcasting 2.0 (open podcast namespace, measurement, hosting)	mixed	37.0	-	-
IFTTT Services (service publishers)	mixed	37.0	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

RSS

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 6

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Captivate Analytics API

Podcast and episode listening analytics (insights).

Captivate Authentication API

Exchange a user ID and API token for a Bearer token.

Captivate Episodes API

List, read, create, and update episodes.

Captivate Media API

Upload, read, list, and search a show's audio media.

Captivate Shows API

Read and update shows, upload artwork, get the RSS feed URL.

Captivate Users API

Read a user and list the shows they can access or manage.

Open Collections 7

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Captivate Analytics API

OPEN COLLECTION

Captivate Analytics Authentication API

OPEN COLLECTION

Captivate Analytics Episodes API

OPEN COLLECTION

Captivate Analytics Media API

OPEN COLLECTION

Captivate Analytics Shows API

OPEN COLLECTION

Captivate Analytics Users API

OPEN COLLECTION

Captivate API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Captivate API pricing

Not yet checked against Captivate's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-07-05 from www.captivate.fm/pricing; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Personal paid	$19.00 per monthly Subscription / month · $204.00 per annual Subscription / year
Professional paid	$49.00 per monthly Subscription / month · $528.00 per annual Subscription / year
Business paid	$99.00 per monthly Subscription / month · $1080.00 per annual Subscription / year

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Rate limits

API Requests: not published requests
Monthly Download Allowance: per plan (30000 / 150000 / 300000 per month) downloads
Media Upload Size: not published bytes

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Captivate's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Captivate Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Captivate Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Captivate Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Captivate API Rules

66 rules · 62 error-severity 3 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Captivate Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Captivate Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Captivate Agentic Access

28 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

SupportDocumentation

SupportDocumentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: captivate-fm
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/captivate-fm/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Captivate
kind: company
description: Captivate is a growth-oriented podcast hosting, distribution, and analytics platform. Its public REST API at
  https://api.captivate.fm lets developers authenticate a user, read and manage shows and their RSS feeds, create and update
  episodes, upload and search media (audio) files, and pull detailed listening analytics (insights) at the podcast and episode
  level. Access is self-serve - any account holder can generate a user ID and API token from the API section of their Captivate
  account and exchange them for a Bearer token. The API is documented as a public Postman collection at docs.captivate.fm.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: true
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Paid (free trial) · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/captivate-fm.png
x-docs-platform: postman
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-21
tags:
- Podcasts
- Podcast Hosting
- Episodes
- Media
- Analytics
- RSS
tags_raw:
- Podcasting
- Podcast Hosting
- Episodes
- Media
- Analytics
- RSS
created: '2026-07-05'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: captivate-fm:captivate-fm-analytics-api
  name: Captivate Analytics API
  description: Podcast and episode listening analytics (insights).
  humanURL: https://docs.captivate.fm/
  baseURL: https://api.captivate.fm
  tags:
  - Analytics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/captivate-fm-analytics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.captivate.fm/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.captivate.fm/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/captivate-fm.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/captivate-fm.opencollection.json
- aid: captivate-fm:captivate-fm-authentication-api
  name: Captivate Authentication API
  description: Exchange a user ID and API token for a Bearer token.
  humanURL: https://docs.captivate.fm/
  baseURL: https://api.captivate.fm
  tags:
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/captivate-fm-authentication-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.captivate.fm/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.captivate.fm/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/captivate-fm.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/captivate-fm.opencollection.json
- aid: captivate-fm:captivate-fm-episodes-api
  name: Captivate Episodes API
  description: List, read, create, and update episodes.
  humanURL: https://docs.captivate.fm/
  baseURL: https://api.captivate.fm
  tags:
  - Episodes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/captivate-fm-episodes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.captivate.fm/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.captivate.fm/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/captivate-fm.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/captivate-fm.opencollection.json
- aid: captivate-fm:captivate-fm-media-api
  name: Captivate Media API
  description: Upload, read, list, and search a show's audio media.
  humanURL: https://docs.captivate.fm/
  baseURL: https://api.captivate.fm
  tags:
  - Media
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/captivate-fm-media-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.captivate.fm/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.captivate.fm/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/captivate-fm.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/captivate-fm.opencollection.json
- aid: captivate-fm:captivate-fm-shows-api
  name: Captivate Shows API
  description: Read and update shows, upload artwork, get the RSS feed URL.
  humanURL: https://docs.captivate.fm/
  baseURL: https://api.captivate.fm
  tags:
  - Shows
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/captivate-fm-shows-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.captivate.fm/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.captivate.fm/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/captivate-fm.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/captivate-fm.opencollection.json
- aid: captivate-fm:captivate-fm-users-api
  name: Captivate Users API
  description: Read a user and list the shows they can access or manage.
  humanURL: https://docs.captivate.fm/
  baseURL: https://api.captivate.fm
  tags:
  - User
  tags_raw:
  - Users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/captivate-fm-users-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.captivate.fm/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.captivate.fm/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/captivate-fm.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/captivate-fm.opencollection.json
common:
- url: https://www.captivate.fm/blog
  type: Blog
- url: https://www.captivate.fm/feed
  type: BlogRSS
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/captivate-fm-capability-edges.yml
  name: Captivate Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/captivate-fm-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/captivate-fm-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/captivate-fm-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/captivate-fm
- type: Website
  url: https://www.captivate.fm/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.captivate.fm/
- type: SupportDocumentation
  url: https://help.captivate.fm/en/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.captivate.fm
- type: Plans
  url: plans/captivate-fm-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/captivate-fm-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/captivate-fm-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Captivate API — frequently asked questions

Does Captivate have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from Captivate, including Captivate Analytics API, Captivate Authentication API and Captivate Episodes API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Captivate API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for Captivate, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Captivate API?

Captivate uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Captivate Authentication.

How much does the Captivate API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Captivate, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Captivate API ready for AI agents?

Captivate has a Kin Score of 29.6 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 22.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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