Podcast Summarizer
Summarize a podcast episode with AI — paste a Spotify or Apple Podcasts episode link and get the key points in seconds, built from the episode's own transcript. Optionally keep the full transcript alongside it.
Input
A Spotify episode link (open.spotify.com/episode/… or spotify:episode:…) or an Apple Podcasts episode link (podcasts.apple.com/…?i=…).
Output
The video's details will appear here.
More ways to use this tool
REST API
curl -X POST https://api.iotools.cloud/v1/tool/podcast-summarizer \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"episodeUrl": "https://open.spotify.com/episode/1xpxc0JNCkC1u5B…",
"length": "medium",
"format": "bullet-points"
}'Swap in your own key from your account. The tool's fields are the body — no wrapper.
Ask an AI agent
Use the IOTools `podcast-summarizer` tool (Podcast Summarizer) on this input:
YOUR_INPUT_HEREPaste this at any agent connected to the IOTools MCP server, then add your input.
| Cost per API/MCP call | From 33 credits |
|---|---|
| Free-plan API/MCP cap^ | 495 credits/month |
| Need more credits? | View pricing |
^ The most you can spend on this tool over API/MCP per month on the free plan. Buying a credit pack removes this cap, same as Builder.
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Guides
What this tool does
Paste a Spotify or Apple Podcasts episode link and get an AI summary of what was said — a few key-point bullets or a short write-up, instead of an hour of listening. The summary is built from the episode's own transcript, so it reflects what the hosts actually said rather than the show notes.
How to use it
- Sign in (this tool uses a paid AI model, so it's available to signed-in members on every plan).
- Paste the episode link —
open.spotify.com/episode/…, aspotify:episode:…URI, or apodcasts.apple.com/…?i=…link. - Choose a summary length (short, medium or long) and a format (key-point bullets or a paragraph).
- Optionally tick Also return the full transcript to get the text the summary was written from.
- Click Summarize episode.
Where the transcript comes from
The tool looks for a transcript that already exists, in this order:
- A YouTube upload of the same episode (Spotify links) — many shows post full episodes to YouTube, and their captions are read off the matching video.
- The show's own published transcript — podcasts that follow the Podcasting 2.0 standard attach a transcript file to each episode in their RSS feed.
The Details panel shows which one was used, the episode length and the caption language.
Frequently asked questions
Why does it say there's no transcript for my episode? Neither route above found one — the episode isn't on YouTube with captions, and the show doesn't publish transcripts in its feed. The tool doesn't run its own speech recognition on the audio, so there's nothing for it to summarize in that case.
Is there a length limit? Very long episodes are summarized from the first 20,000 characters of the transcript (roughly the first 20–25 minutes of conversation). The Length change line tells you when that happened.
Can I just get the transcript, without a summary? Yes — Spotify to Text returns the raw transcript of a Spotify episode as paragraphs, timestamps or SRT/VTT subtitles, with no AI involved.
I already have the transcript text. Can I summarize that? Paste it into Text Summarizer — the same AI summarization, for text you supply yourself.
Why do I need to sign in? Each run calls a paid AI model, and a truthfully-priced run costs more than a guest's daily allowance. Signing in is free and every member reaches this tool, including the free tier.
Is the episode or transcript stored? No. The transcript is fetched for this one run, sent to an AI provider to write the summary, then discarded — nothing is logged or used for training.