You can now use an emoji as your Playlist image or Profile image, making it easier to personalize your account with just a few clicks.

Why use a Passkey?

Passkeys let you sign in to Listen Notes with your device unlock, such as Touch ID, Face ID, Windows Hello, a phone screen lock, or a security key. They are easier than login links and more resistant to phishing. You can save them with tools such as Apple iCloud Keychain, Google Password Manager, 1Password, or a FIDO2 security key. Learn more about passkeys.

How to add a Passkey?

Go to the Passkeys tab in your account settings:

https://www.listennotes.com/settings/#passkey

From there, you can add one or more passkeys to your account.

And when you log in next time, you can click the "Continue with Passkey" to use your passkey to log in.

GitHub repo: github.com/PodcastAPI/skills

Why use it?

Instead of making your coding agent guess:

• How Podcast API authentication works
• Which endpoints to use
• Pagination patterns
• Search vs. lookup workflows
• Common implementation mistakes

The skill provides agent-friendly guidance, examples, and best practices out of the box. It helps agents generate more accurate code and spend less time hallucinating API usage.

Works with

• OpenAI Codex
• Claude Code
• Any CLI coding agent that supports agent skills / context injection

Typical use cases

Ask your coding agent things like:

• “Build a podcast search app with Podcast API.”
• “Find podcast episodes mentioning Nvidia earnings.”
• “Create a daily podcast monitoring workflow.”
• “Build a podcast recommendation feature.”
• “Generate TypeScript code for Podcast API search.”

The agent will automatically use the skill instructions to choose the right endpoints and implementation patterns.

You can learn how to integrate with popular coding agents like Codex and Claude Code at https://github.com/PodcastAPI/skills#install

Feedback welcome

If your coding agent makes mistakes or you find missing examples, please open an issue or PR. We’ll continue improving the skill as Podcast API evolves.

We also improved our re-indexing pipeline, making it 4× faster than before. As a result, we can now re-index the entire podcast database in under 24 hours.

In addition, we re-provisioned the Elasticsearch cluster using newer storage-optimized EC2 instances, delivering better performance while reducing infrastructure costs.

Although Stripe deprecated this checkout experience in 2019, it continued to work reliably for us, so we kept using it for several more years - well, it's 7+ years!

This is what the old checkout modal looked like:

Last week, we completed a major migration to Stripe’s modern Payment Element-based checkout.

This migration not only removes our dependency on deprecated Stripe technology, but also brings several improvements behind the scenes, including:

• Support for 3D Secure (3DS) authentication when required
• Improved fraud detection and payment security
• Better compatibility with modern payment methods
• Ongoing support and updates from Stripe

This is what the new checkout experience looks like:

In addition to credit card payments through Stripe, we also support Google Pay, Apple Pay, and PayPal.

As always, if you run into any payment issues or have feedback about the new checkout experience, please let us know: hello@listennotes.com

We’ve just added support for Latest Episodes! This is a game-changer for podcast networks or curators who want a single, dynamic widget that automatically updates with the freshest content across multiple curated podcasts.

How to enable it:

1) Open your playlist and head over to the EMBED tab.

2) Under the Item type dropdown, select "Latest episodes."

4) Copy your embed code.

With this update, you can now manage your playback (play, pause, and seek) directly from your device's lock screen or notification center, providing a more seamless listening experience on the go.

The demo site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages.

The entire source code for this demo is available on GitHub at ListenNotes/demo.podcastapi.com. We encourage you to fork the repo, experiment with the implementation, and use it as a foundation for your own projects.

Check out the new UI below:

Whether you are using ChatGPT, Claude, or any other LLM, you can now simply copy-paste the entire documentation to give the AI full context. This allows your favorite AI assistant to help you write, debug, and optimize your code with perfect accuracy.

You can also find the markdown file at https://www.listennotes.com/api/docs/:

We’ve introduced a new internal tool that allows our team to manage regional content restrictions more efficiently. This ensures we meet legal requirements from local governments while keeping the platform available for everyone else. After 9+ years of growth, we’re embracing the responsibilities that come with being an established global platform.

1. English
2. Spanish (Español)
3. French (Français)
4. German (Deutsch)
5. Italian (Italiano)
6. Portuguese (Português)
7. Dutch (Nederlands)
8. Chinese (中文)
9. Greek (Ελληνικά)
10. Japanese (日本語)
11. Korean (한국어)
12. Malay (Bahasa Melayu)
13. Swedish (Svenska)
14. Turkish (Türkçe)
15. Polish (Polski)
16. Russian (Русский)
17. Thai (ไทย)
18. Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt)
19. Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia)
20. Hindi (हिन्दी)
21. Ukrainian (Українська)

Try it yourself: Generate transcripts from any audio or video file at Listen411.com or use the shortcut Transcript.new.

So far, we haven't observed any noticeable performance improvements, despite what some benchmarks might suggest, but it’s still a worthwhile upgrade. Staying current with Python releases helps keep future upgrades smoother and reduces technical debt. It’s always a good idea not to fall too far behind.

English has long dominated the internet — and podcasting is no exception. It’s common to see English podcasts ranking high even in non-English-speaking countries. But sometimes, listeners want to discover the best shows in their own language. Now, you can easily do that using the new language selector.

If you’re using our Podcast API, you can achieve the same result by adding the language parameter to the GET /best_podcasts

 endpoint to filter results by language.

a) Postgres 18 (previously 15)

b) Ubuntu 24.04 (previously 22.04)

c) Python 3.14 (previously 3.11)

Keeping key infrastructure up to date helps us stay on top of security patches, performance gains, and bug fixes. It also sets us up for faster development in the future, since newer versions often unlock features that weren’t possible before.

Listen Notes, Inc. runs multiple products, each with its own production environment to ensure separation of concerns. This means an outage in one product won’t impact the others. We regularly perform infrastructure maintenance, similar to a routine vehicle checkup.

Definition: A podcast is considered a video podcast if either:

1) Its RSS feed contains video files, or

2) It has a YouTube channel.

On the Website (listennotes.com)

Use the “Video podcasts only” filter on the podcast search page to restrict results to video podcasts.

In search results, qualified shows are labeled with the “Video podcast” attribute.

Batch Export to CSV

You can also apply the “Video podcasts only” filter when using our keyword-based batch export tool:

https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-datasets/keyword/

In the exported CSV, look for the is_video_podcast field.

Optimized episode indexing to deliver faster search queries.

🔍 New: Podcast‑Specific Filtering

Limit your alerts to up to five podcasts of your choice, so you only get notified about the shows that matter most to you.

You'll be able to get alerts via email or RSS feed whenever a tracked keyword appears in a new episode.

Check it out: https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-alerts/