# Open Podcast API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/open-podcast-api-open-podcast-api/  
**Website:** https://openpodcastapi.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

The Open Podcast API is an initiative aiming to provide a feature-complete synchronization API specification for podcast (web) apps and user-focused servers. The specification covers synchronization of subscriptions, listening progress, favorites, queues, and device state across compliant clients and self-hosted servers, with the goal of giving listeners portable control of their podcast data.

## Kin Score — 13.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 13.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (6)

- **Open Podcast Authentication API** — Authenticate users against an Open Podcast compliant server, establishing the session used for subsequent subscription, action, and device endpoints.
- **Open Podcast Subscriptions API** — Synchronize a user's podcast subscriptions across clients, including adding and removing feed URLs and retrieving the current subscription set per device.
- **Open Podcast Episode Actions API** — Record and synchronize per-episode listening actions such as play, pause, download, delete, and flag, including timestamp and position metadata.
- **Open Podcast Devices API** — Register and manage the devices a user syncs from, allowing servers to track per-device subscription state and last-sync timestamps.
- **Open Podcast Favorites API** — Synchronize a user's favorited episodes across clients so that liked or starred items remain consistent regardless of which app or device the user is on.
- **Open Podcast Queue API** — Synchronize the user's playback queue (up-next list) across clients, including ordering, additions, and removals of episodes.

## Security (1)

- **Open Podcast Api Open Podcast Api Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Open Podcast Api Open Podcast Api Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Audio, Episodes, Open Standards, Podcasts, Subscription, Sync

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/open-podcast-api-open-podcast-api/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.