/npr/podcasts

POST /api/npr/podcasts

Price: 20 credits

Get an NPR podcast or show by its id: title, description, cover art, publisher and owner contact, language, iTunes categories, feed type, the countries the audio is licensed for, membership funding link, number of episodes in the feed and the time of the latest one.

How to use it

Fetch one NPR podcast by its show id (510318 for Up First, g-s1-111189 for All Songs Considered) or by pasting a https://www.npr.org/podcasts/{id}/{slug} URL. Both the legacy numeric ids and the newer g-s1-/nx-s1- ids are accepted, and both forms come back from npr/articles as show_id and from npr/articles/search as podcast.id. Returns one item with show_title, description, image, author, owner and owner_email, categories, allowed_countries (the audio is licensed for those country codes only), episode_count and latest_episode_at as unix seconds. Use npr/podcasts/episodes with the same id to list the episodes themselves.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• show string required — NPR show id or the full npr.org podcast URL (examples: "510318", "g-s1-111189", "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510318/up-first"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "NprPodcast")
• id string required
• show_title string required
• description string nullable
• web_url string nullable
• feed_url string nullable
• image string nullable
• author string nullable
• owner string nullable
• owner_email string nullable
• language string nullable
• copyright string nullable
• generator string nullable
• feed_type string nullable
• is_explicit boolean (default: false)
• is_blocked boolean (default: false)
• categories array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NprPodcastCategory")
  • name string required
  • subcategories array (default: [])
• allowed_countries array (default: [])
• funding_text string nullable
• funding_url string nullable
• episode_count integer (default: 0)
• last_build_at integer nullable
• latest_episode_at integer nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — No podcast with this id — the id is unknown or belongs to a topic or section rather than a podcast Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.