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# import\_podcast

Reference for the \`import\_podcast\` MCP prompt.

Preview and run an RSS import.

## Contract

| Property         | Value            |
| ---------------- | ---------------- |
| Prompt name      | `import_podcast` |
| Arguments        | None             |
| Executes changes | No               |

## Example request

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "prompts/get",
  "params": {
    "name": "import_podcast",
    "arguments": {}
  }
}
```

## Result shape

```json
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "description",
    "messages"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "properties": {
    "description": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "messages": {
      "type": "array",
      "minItems": 1,
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "role",
          "content"
        ],
        "additionalProperties": false,
        "properties": {
          "role": {
            "const": "user"
          },
          "content": {
            "type": "object",
            "required": [
              "type",
              "text"
            ],
            "additionalProperties": false,
            "properties": {
              "type": {
                "const": "text"
              },
              "text": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
```

The returned description is: Import a show from an RSS feed and follow it to completion.

The result contains one user-role text message. The prompt supplies operating guidance to the client. It does not call a tool, grant a scope, or confirm an action.

## Guidance supplied to the client

Call import\_podcast with dry\_run true first. The preview reports whether the feed is reachable and how many episodes it holds: show the user that count before they confirm, because the import can run for a long time. Then repeat the request with a stable idempotency\_key and the exact confirm value. Poll get\_operation and report its progress field, which gives episodes done out of total, rather than only saying it is still running. Resume only an operation in failed\_retryable, and stop after a second identical failure. Podigee does not set up the 301 redirect on the old host: tell the user that step is theirs, and that skipping it loses their existing subscribers.

The client must still inspect tool results and follow the normal preview, confirmation, idempotency, and durable-operation contracts.

## Related tools

* [`import_podcast`](/documentation/start-here/ai-agents/mcp-tools/import-podcast.md)


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