Pod Engine Python SDK

Official Python client for the Pod Engine podcast intelligence API — search 4M+ podcasts, fetch metadata, transcripts, charts, guest profiles and more.

The client is fully generated from Pod Engine's published OpenAPI specification, so it stays in lockstep with the API and ships typed pydantic models for every request and response.

Install

pip install podengine
# or: uv add podengine

Requires Python 3.10+.

Quickstart (sync)

from podengine import PodEngine

pe = PodEngine(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

chart = pe.charts.get_latest_chart(chart_type="apple", country="us", category="top podcasts")
for entry in chart.podcasts:
    print(entry.rank, entry.title)

results = pe.search.search_podcasts(
    search_terms=[
        {
            "searchTerm": "startups",
            "searchType": "text",
            "searchTargets": ["podcast-title"],
            "searchTermOptions": {"matchMode": "optional"},
        }
    ],
)

Get an API key at https://www.podengine.ai/get-started.

Quickstart (async)

import asyncio
from podengine import AsyncPodEngine

async def main() -> None:
    async with AsyncPodEngine(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY") as pe:
        chart = await pe.charts.get_latest_chart(
            chart_type="apple", country="us", category="top podcasts"
        )
        print(chart)

asyncio.run(main())

Configuration

pe = PodEngine(
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
    base_url="https://api.podengine.ai",  # override for staging; or set PODENGINE_API_URL
    source="my-app",                       # sent as the x-source header
    timeout=60.0,                          # per-request timeout (seconds)
    max_retries=2,                         # transient 429/5xx/network retries
)

Per-call overrides are available via RequestOptions:

from podengine import RequestOptions

chart = pe.charts.get_latest_chart(
    chart_type="apple",
    country="us",
    category="top podcasts",
    request_options=RequestOptions(timeout=10.0, max_retries=0),
)

Error handling

Every failure is a PodEngineError subclass:

from podengine import PodEngine, PodEngineAPIError, PodEngineConnectionError

pe = PodEngine(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")
try:
    chart = pe.charts.get_latest_chart(chart_type="apple", country="us", category="top podcasts")
except PodEngineAPIError as err:
    print(err.status, err.message, err.request_id)  # non-2xx response
except PodEngineConnectionError as err:
    print("network failure:", err)                  # no HTTP response

License

MIT