MCP server for the Transistor.fm podcast hosting API — manage shows, episodes, analytics, download summaries, transcripts, subscribers, and webhooks.
MCP server for the Transistor.fm podcast hosting API — manage shows, episodes, analytics, download summaries, transcripts, subscribers, and webhooks. Exposed over MCP by the transistor mcp mcp server, that capability becomes something an assistant can invoke while it works, not something you go and do afterwards.
This MCP server provides tools to interact with the Transistor.fm API, allowing you to manage podcasts, episodes, and view analytics.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
get_authenticated_user — The get_authenticated_user tool exposed by this serverauthorize_upload — Get a pre-signed URL for uploading an audio file. Use this before creating an episode with a local audio filelist_shows — List all shows in your Transistor.fm account, ordered by updated date (newest first). Returns a paginated list with 10 items per pagelist_episodes — The list_episodes tool exposed by this serverget_episode — The get_episode tool exposed by this serverget_analytics — Get analytics for a show or specific episode. Defaults to the last 14 days if no dates are providedcreate_episode — The create_episode tool exposed by this serverupdate_episode — The update_episode tool exposed by this serverget_all_episode_analytics — Get analytics for all episodes of a show. Defaults to the last 7 days if no dates are providedlist_webhooks — The list_webhooks tool exposed by this serversubscribe_webhook — The subscribe_webhook tool exposed by this serverunsubscribe_webhook — The unsubscribe_webhook tool exposed by this serverYou will need one environment variable: TRANSISTOR_API_KEY. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.
Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Transistor MCP's toolset — get_authenticated_user, authorize_upload, list_shows and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by gxjansen; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Transistor MCP's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| get_authenticated_user | The get_authenticated_user tool exposed by this server. |
| authorize_upload | Get a pre-signed URL for uploading an audio file. Use this before creating an episode with a local audio file. |
| list_shows | List all shows in your Transistor.fm account, ordered by updated date (newest first). Returns a paginated list with 10 items per page. |
| list_episodes | The list_episodes tool exposed by this server. |
| get_episode | The get_episode tool exposed by this server. |
| get_analytics | Get analytics for a show or specific episode. Defaults to the last 14 days if no dates are provided. |
| create_episode | The create_episode tool exposed by this server. |
| update_episode | The update_episode tool exposed by this server. |
| get_all_episode_analytics | Get analytics for all episodes of a show. Defaults to the last 7 days if no dates are provided. |
| list_webhooks | The list_webhooks tool exposed by this server. |
| subscribe_webhook | The subscribe_webhook tool exposed by this server. |
| unsubscribe_webhook | The unsubscribe_webhook tool exposed by this server. |
| get_show | The get_show tool exposed by this server. |
| update_show | Update a show. json show_id: string // Required author: string // Optional category: string // Optional copyright: string // Optional description: string // Optional explicit: boolean // Optional image_url: string // Opt |
{
"mcpServers": {
"transistor": {
"command": "node",
"args": ["path/to/Transistor-MCP/build/index.js"],
"env": {
"TRANSISTOR_API_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| TRANSISTOR_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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