What automations are possible with Transistor?
API Basics
Transistor has an API which allows you to make programmatic changes to your podcasts without needing to use our usual web interface.
Here are our API docs: https://developers.transistor.fm/
You will find your API key on the account page in the section marked API Access: https://dashboard.transistor.fm/account
What's Possible?
Our API doesn't currently have the exact same functionality as our web application. Here are some common automations you could create using our API:
- Sync private podcast subscribers - Add and remove private podcast subscribers automatically
- Automated publishing pipeline - Creating and publishing episodes
- Post-publish promotion - Build social posts based on the information used in your latest episode
- Analytics Retrieval - Fetch show and episode download numbers
Automations Platforms
If you don't want to write code or API requests yourself, you can use automations platforms that let you connect Transistor's API to a wide range of other apps. Here are some automations platforms you may want to try out:
Automations Limitations
- Show creation is not currently available via our API. New shows need to be created in the web app in the first instance.
- Our API should not be used to power the back end of applications or websites and we have rate limiting in place to restrict excessive use. Data should be pulled once from Transistor and cached. Rather than repeatedly pulling data from Transistor for every page visitor of your app or website.
Updated on: 01/02/2026
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