Podcast Index
The Podcast Index is here to preserve, protect and extend the open, independent podcasting ecosystem.
Website: podcastindex.org
Latest news
- Jan 12:
Chartable closed for everyone on Dec 8; and now no longer works. That means that all shows with
chtbl.comorchrt.fmin the enclosure URL will no longer play (Spotify hasn't maintained a simple redirect). As of this weekend, that's affecting 10,667 different shows, according to The Podcast Index. Here's how to remove the Chartable Trackable RSS prefix in Megaphone if you use that. - Jan 6: The Nigerian Podcast Index has been announced - a definitive, independent record of Nigerian podcasts, according to the founder, Tony Doe.
- Jan 5: Dave Jones from the Podcast Index is working on a tool that will show you all the new shows being published at any one time, and you can listen to them and help humanly categorise it. He's calling it "the crap trap". He also has suggested that there may be a way for Podcast Index to "verify" feeds, to avoid some feeds being pirated by bad actors, and to give more control to podcast publishers.
- Dec 24, 2025: There's now a "recently added" feeds endpoint for the Podcast Index. Dave Jones says: "I'm hoping this will help people develop tools to analyze all the newly added feeds and publish information about them, like whether they are AI slop, scam feeds, TTS, etc."
- Nov 24, 2025: In the Podcasting 2.0 podcast this week, we learn that Podcast Index is currently costing around $1,000 a month to keep running. (There’s a donate button at the bottom of the website).
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