Podcast Index
The Podcast Index is here to preserve, protect and extend the open, independent podcasting ecosystem.
Website: podcastindex.org
Latest news
- 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).
- Nov 10, 2025:
As we move away from node addresses in streaming payments,
podcastindex@podcastindex.orgis the Podcast Index’s shiny new lnaddress. You’ll see it in our splits in thepodcast:valuetag in our RSS feed. If you’ve Podcast Index in your splits, it’s recommended to use the lnaddress as of now.
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