About podqast
An English-language guide to the English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Italian, French, Swedish, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese (Mandarin), Arabic, Romanian, Finnish, Hungarian, Thai, Danish, Vietnamese, Norwegian, Indonesian, Greek, Czech, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Filipino, Croatian and Korean podcast world, where every episode is also playable here.
552 shows in English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Italian, French, Swedish, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese (Mandarin), Arabic, Romanian, Finnish, Hungarian, Thai, Danish, Vietnamese, Norwegian, Indonesian, Greek, Czech, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Filipino, Croatian, Korean and Hindi, 164,745 episodes, refreshed every hour from each show’s own RSS feed. Episodes are filed under 36 subjects and under the 840 people who appear on them, so you can follow a topic or a person across shows instead of one show at a time.
Titles, show notes and descriptions are shown as their authors wrote them. An English translation sits under the original, in a different face, labelled “EN · machine”, because that is what it is: a machine translation, made by a language model, unreviewed. It is there so a reader who has no Portuguese or German can tell what an episode is about. It never replaces the original and it is never presented as the author’s words. The EN button in the header turns it off.
Who is on an episode, and what it is about, are drafted by a language model from the episode’s own title and notes — and then checked in code. Every person and every topic must come with a verbatim quote from that text, which is compared character for character; anything that does not match is thrown away. A show’s hosts are entered by hand. The same rule governs the paragraph at the top of a show page: every name and every number in it must occur in the data it was written from, or the paragraph is discarded. A wrong name on somebody’s page is worse than a missing one.
Nothing is re-hosted. Play an episode and the audio streams from the server the podcast publishes it on, exactly as any podcast app would fetch it. Downloads for offline listening are stored in your own browser. There is no account: what you follow, where you stopped and your speed live in this browser and go nowhere else.
A dated page per country, built from that country’s own news podcasts, not from any newswire: a few sentences per story, in our own words, and under each show that covered it a quote copied word for word from what it said, checked by code before it is shown, and a timestamp that opens the episode at that second. A page exists only once two different shows have covered the same day; there is no page for a country with fewer than two.
The whole catalogue is readable without scraping the pages.
podqast is a personal project by Eyal Levin. There is no company behind it, nothing is for sale, and there are no ads. It carries no advertising or third-party trackers; visits are counted without a cookie or any stored identifier, and this browser can be left out of that count altogether.