# /rfi/podcasts/episodes

`POST /api/rfi/podcasts/episodes`

Price: 1 credit

List the episodes of one RFI radio programme, newest first, as deep into the archive as the requested count needs. Long-running programmes hold years of broadcasts. Each entry carries the episode title, its teaser, publication time, cover art, the page URL, whether RFI publishes a player for it and — this being radio — the episode's own playable MP3 with its running time in seconds and the full broadcast record behind it.

## How to use it

Walk the archive of one RFI radio programme, and the only RFI listing that returns playable audio: a whole back catalogue of MP3s comes back without a second call per episode. podcast takes the programme slug ('spotlight-africa', 'international-report', 'culture-france'), or the full programme URL, in which case lang is ignored; rfi/podcasts reports how many episodes the archive holds, so read that before choosing a count. Each edition files its programmes under its own path segment and lang picks it, so pass the bare slug rather than a hand-built path. An episode usually sits under a different slug from the programme page, so follow the returned web_url and never compose one. Read is_playable rather than inferring from a null audio_url: RFI publishes no player for some older episodes and says so. Feed web_url into rfi/articles for the episode's written body, tags and images. The walk stops after 400 listing pages, so a count beyond that comes back short rather than erroring.

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `podcast` (string, required) — RFI radio programme slug, or the URL of the programme page (examples: "spotlight-africa", "international-report", "https://www.rfi.fr/en/podcasts/culture-france/", "algo-que-decir"; minLength: 1)
- `count` (integer, required) — Max number of episodes to return (min: 1)
- `lang` (string) — Language edition the programme slug belongs to; ignored when podcast is a full URL (default: "en"; one of: "fr", "en", "es", "pt", "br", "cn", "tw", "vi", "km", "ro", "sw", "ha", "fa", "ru", "ff", "uk", "ma")

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "RfiEpisodeCard")
- `id` (string, nullable)
- `episode_title` (string, required)
- `description` (string, nullable)
- `web_url` (string, required)
- `alias` (string, required)
- `language` (string, required)
- `published_at` (integer, nullable)
- `published_label` (string, nullable)
- `duration` (integer, nullable)
- `duration_label` (string, nullable)
- `image` (string, nullable)
- `program` (string, nullable)
- `is_playable` (boolean) (default: false)
- `audio_url` (string, nullable)
- `audio` (object, nullable)
  - `@type` (string) (default: "RfiAudio")
  - `id` (string, nullable)
  - `audio_url` (string, required)
  - `duration` (integer, nullable)
  - `audio_title` (string, nullable)
  - `content_id` (string, nullable)
  - `content_type` (string, nullable)
  - `program_id` (string, nullable)
  - `program_title` (string, nullable)
  - `program_url` (string, nullable)
  - `program_genre` (string, nullable)
  - `season` (string, nullable)
  - `season_episode` (string, nullable)
  - `episode_id` (string, nullable)
  - `episode_title` (string, nullable)
  - `published_at` (integer, nullable)
  - `published_label` (string, nullable)
  - `web_url` (string, nullable)

## Errors

### 422 — Validation Error

Not an RFI programme slug or programme URL, or an edition with no programme catalogue

What to do: Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.

- `detail` (array)
  - `loc` (array, required)
  - `msg` (string, required)
  - `type` (string, required)
  - `input` (any)
  - `ctx` (object)

### 408

The request ran past its time limit

What to do: 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

RFI publishes no programme page at this slug in this language edition

What to do: 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

What to do: 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

What to do: 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

What to do: Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

## Response envelope

Success: Array of objects (may be empty if no results)

Error: Error may coexist with partial results if it occurs mid-execution. Check X-Error header and status code.

Every response carries these 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.