curl --request GET \
--url https://k8mfogcvz4.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/v1/search/shows \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'import requests
url = "https://k8mfogcvz4.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/v1/search/shows"
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
fetch('https://k8mfogcvz4.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/v1/search/shows', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://k8mfogcvz4.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/v1/search/shows",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://k8mfogcvz4.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/v1/search/shows"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://k8mfogcvz4.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/v1/search/shows")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://k8mfogcvz4.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/v1/search/shows")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"data": [
{
"show_id": "sh_k4n7qzvw2mtxyabc",
"title": "The Vergecast",
"feed_url": "https://feeds.example.com/vergecast.xml",
"itunes_id": 430333725,
"author": "The Verge",
"categories": [
"Technology",
"Tech News"
],
"artwork_url": "https://cdn.example.com/art/vergecast.jpg",
"music_led": false,
"music_led_basis": "no music category is on the show"
},
{
"show_id": "sh_q7zmxbv2ctkn4yaf",
"title": "Song Exploder",
"feed_url": "https://feeds.example.com/songexploder.xml",
"itunes_id": null,
"author": "Hrishikesh Hirway",
"categories": [
"Music",
"Music Commentary"
],
"artwork_url": null,
"music_led": true,
"music_led_basis": "the show is categorized Music, Music Commentary"
}
],
"excluded": [
{
"title": "An Unlisted Feed",
"reason": "no_feed_url",
"detail": "the discovery provider carried no feed URL for this show, so it cannot be selected"
}
],
"next_cursor": null
}{
"error": {
"code": "invalid_request",
"type": "invalid_request",
"message": "<string>",
"doc_url": "<string>",
"request_id": "<string>",
"retryable": true
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "invalid_request",
"type": "invalid_request",
"message": "<string>",
"doc_url": "<string>",
"request_id": "<string>",
"retryable": true
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "invalid_request",
"type": "invalid_request",
"message": "<string>",
"doc_url": "<string>",
"request_id": "<string>",
"retryable": true
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "invalid_request",
"type": "invalid_request",
"message": "<string>",
"doc_url": "<string>",
"request_id": "<string>",
"retryable": true
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "invalid_request",
"type": "invalid_request",
"message": "<string>",
"doc_url": "<string>",
"request_id": "<string>",
"retryable": true
}
}Find shows by name
Free-text show search over Podcast Index: its exact-title search (search/bytitle) and its fuzzy term search (search/byterm) are issued together and merged, title hits first, each show once. The provider decides which shows match — no local fuzzy matcher — and the order is Audivo’s, so the same name finds the same show every time: titles that match the query exactly come first, then titles that start with it, then titles that contain it as whole words, then the rest; within each of those, the show with the larger catalogue first, then a show with an Apple listing before one without, then the provider’s own order. Titles are compared case-insensitively, ignoring punctuation and a leading “The”, and a title is graded both whole and by the part before its subtitle (Name: Subtitle), taking the better. Every entry carries music_led and the basis for it: a music-led show the caller searched for by name is marked, never removed, because they named it; the boundary is applied when a chart-derived selection is quoted (POST /v1/quotes). A provider entry that carries no feed URL cannot be selected or identified and is reported in excluded rather than dropped.
The provider does not page this call, so next_cursor is always null and no cursor parameter is accepted; limit is how many entries come back. The provider is asked for at least twenty so the ranking has something to choose from.
curl --request GET \
--url https://k8mfogcvz4.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/v1/search/shows \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'import requests
url = "https://k8mfogcvz4.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/v1/search/shows"
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
fetch('https://k8mfogcvz4.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/v1/search/shows', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://k8mfogcvz4.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/v1/search/shows",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://k8mfogcvz4.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/v1/search/shows"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://k8mfogcvz4.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/v1/search/shows")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://k8mfogcvz4.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/v1/search/shows")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"data": [
{
"show_id": "sh_k4n7qzvw2mtxyabc",
"title": "The Vergecast",
"feed_url": "https://feeds.example.com/vergecast.xml",
"itunes_id": 430333725,
"author": "The Verge",
"categories": [
"Technology",
"Tech News"
],
"artwork_url": "https://cdn.example.com/art/vergecast.jpg",
"music_led": false,
"music_led_basis": "no music category is on the show"
},
{
"show_id": "sh_q7zmxbv2ctkn4yaf",
"title": "Song Exploder",
"feed_url": "https://feeds.example.com/songexploder.xml",
"itunes_id": null,
"author": "Hrishikesh Hirway",
"categories": [
"Music",
"Music Commentary"
],
"artwork_url": null,
"music_led": true,
"music_led_basis": "the show is categorized Music, Music Commentary"
}
],
"excluded": [
{
"title": "An Unlisted Feed",
"reason": "no_feed_url",
"detail": "the discovery provider carried no feed URL for this show, so it cannot be selected"
}
],
"next_cursor": null
}{
"error": {
"code": "invalid_request",
"type": "invalid_request",
"message": "<string>",
"doc_url": "<string>",
"request_id": "<string>",
"retryable": true
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "invalid_request",
"type": "invalid_request",
"message": "<string>",
"doc_url": "<string>",
"request_id": "<string>",
"retryable": true
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "invalid_request",
"type": "invalid_request",
"message": "<string>",
"doc_url": "<string>",
"request_id": "<string>",
"retryable": true
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "invalid_request",
"type": "invalid_request",
"message": "<string>",
"doc_url": "<string>",
"request_id": "<string>",
"retryable": true
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "invalid_request",
"type": "invalid_request",
"message": "<string>",
"doc_url": "<string>",
"request_id": "<string>",
"retryable": true
}
}Authorizations
Authorization: Bearer hk_live_... for live keys or Authorization: Bearer hk_test_... for test-mode keys. hk_test_ keys resolve real public catalog metadata but return deterministic committed fixtures, never call inference, and never mutate live credits. This is the only transport for the credential: the x-api-key alias once documented was removed in 0.2.0, because the edge authorizer reads Authorization as its single identity source and a request on any other header is refused before it is authenticated.
Never accepted on a dashboardJwt operation, and there are no exceptions. GET /v1/usage and GET /v1/limits briefly declared both schemes (0.8.0); that was withdrawn in 0.8.1 because no deployed route could honor it — both operations are served by the control-plane API, whose authorizer verifies a Cognito token and refuses an hk_live_ credential on shape, and the customer API does not route either path. An API-key holder reads its balance and reservation from QuoteResponse, which carries balance_credits and reserved_credits on every quote. Every operation in this document takes one scheme or the other and refuses the wrong one as unauthenticated.
Query Parameters
Free-text show search query.
1 - 200Maximum number of items to return.
1 <= x <= 100Response
The matching shows, ranked as described above.

