Captivate MCP

An MCP server for Captivate.fm podcast hosting. It lets Claude (or any MCP client) read your shows, episodes and listening analytics, so you can ask things like:

• "How did last week's episode do in its first 7 days compared to the previous three?"

• "Which countries and apps do my listeners use this quarter?"

• "Show me monthly downloads for the past year."

The server is read-only: it never creates, edits or publishes anything in your Captivate account.

Unofficial project, not affiliated with Captivate. Built on the public Captivate API.

Tools

Related MCP server: h1-mcp

Get your API credentials

In Captivate, open My Account → API and generate an API token. You need two values:

• CAPTIVATE_USER_ID – your user ID shown on that page

• CAPTIVATE_API_TOKEN – the API token

Install

Requires Node.js 18 or newer.

Claude Code

claude mcp add captivate \
  -e CAPTIVATE_USER_ID=your-user-id \
  -e CAPTIVATE_API_TOKEN=your-api-token \
  -- npx -y github:DannyOosterveer/captivate-mcp

Claude Desktop

Add this to claude_desktop_config.json (Settings → Developer → Edit Config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "captivate": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "github:DannyOosterveer/captivate-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "CAPTIVATE_USER_ID": "your-user-id",
        "CAPTIVATE_API_TOKEN": "your-api-token"
      }
    }
  }
}

From source

git clone https://github.com/DannyOosterveer/captivate-mcp.git
cd captivate-mcp
npm install

Then point your MCP client at node /path/to/captivate-mcp/dist/index.js with the two environment variables set.

Notes

• Dates are ISO 8601 (2026-01-31 or 2026-01-31T00:00:00Z).

• The API token is exchanged for a session token on first use and refreshed automatically when it expires.

• CAPTIVATE_API_URL can override the API base URL (default https://api.captivate.fm).

License

MIT