Listen Notes: The best podcast search engine

# Listen Notes > Listen Notes is a podcast search engine, podcast api, podcast database, and set of podcast data products for listeners, podcasters, researchers, developers, PR teams, marketers, journalists, educators, and AI builders. Listen Notes helps people search, discover, curate, monitor, and analyze publicly accessible podcasts and episodes. The free website is best understood as "Google for podcasts": search across public podcasts and episodes, filter results, inspect podcast metadata, create clips, save individual episodes into Listen Later playlists, and use discovery tools such as Best Podcasts, Hot Podcasts, Similar Podcasts Explorer, Real-Time, Curated Podcasts, and Podcast Classifieds. Listen Notes also provides commercial podcast data products: - Premium Membership: advanced website features for PR, marketing, academic research, media monitoring, outreach, and serious podcast discovery. A short 2-day pass is available for one-time research jobs, with no long-term subscription required. - Listen Alerts: podcast mention monitoring for keywords, brands, people, topics, and competitors, with notifications by email, RSS, Zapier, Slack, Trello, Mailchimp, Buffer, Airtable, Asana, Jira, and other tools. - Podcast API: the Listen Notes Podcast API, serving the podcast industry since 2017 and powering 13,000+ apps and websites. API-specific agent documentation is at https://www.podcastapi.com/llms-full.txt. - Podcast Datasets: self-service CSV exports and full database dumps. Batch exports can be purchased by keyword, category, playlist, or iTunes/Apple Podcasts IDs. Full database dumps are delivered as large SQLite database files and can include all podcasts and optionally episodes, with one-time dumps or periodic updates. Listen Notes actively curates for genuine human-created podcasts. Automated systems and human moderators review submissions and database quality so the database does not become filled with AI slop, fake podcasts, spam, deleted feeds,