Podcast search
Searches across actively transcribed podcasts to make podcast conversations discoverable.
Audio and video / product dossier
Radar by Particle
Searches transcribed podcast conversations through an API and MCP.
Product brief
What Radar by Particle does.
The web is searchable. Podcasts should be too. Today, Particle is introducing Radar, the podcast search engine. Podcasts hold some of the most thoughtful and timely conversations happening right now, but that knowledge is hard to find. Radar searches 130,000+ actively transcribed podcasts, with ~20,000 new episodes daily. Millions of hours and billions of lines, fully searchable. Radar is powered by Particle’s Podcast Intelligence API, which allows agents to search across podcasts via API/MCP.
Why we selected it
Makes a difficult-to-query research corpus accessible at scale, with API and MCP access that fits the current push toward agent-connected business tools.
- Best for
- Researchers building richer source discovery
- Category
- Audio and video
- Daily picks
- 1
- First selected
- 2026-08-31
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Capability scan
What it can help with.
Only capabilities supported by the product information we collected are listed here.
Large transcribed-podcast corpus
The description states that Radar searches more than 130,000 actively transcribed podcasts.
Ongoing episode coverage
The stated corpus adds approximately 20,000 new episodes daily.
API and MCP access
Particle’s Podcast Intelligence API allows agents to search across podcasts through API and MCP.
Best-fit use cases
Find conversations about a research topic within transcribed podcasts.
Build source-discovery workflows that search podcast discussions.
Use the Podcast Intelligence API or MCP to let an agent search podcast content.
Search a corpus described as millions of hours and billions of lines of podcast material.
FAQ
Before you open it.
What is Radar by Particle?
Radar is a podcast search engine from Particle.
What does Radar search?
It searches actively transcribed podcasts; the description states coverage of more than 130,000 podcasts.
How often are new episodes added?
Particle states that approximately 20,000 new episodes are added daily.
Can agents use Radar?
Yes. The description says Particle’s Podcast Intelligence API lets agents search across podcasts via API and MCP.