People data for podcasts

Starcast keeps a record of who has been on which podcast episode, hosts and guests, updated every night. We are deciding whether to offer it as an API. If your business would use it, join the early-access list below: the answers decide whether we build it, and what goes in first.

What’s in it

• More than 78,000 people and 330,000 appearances across 14,000 shows, with new episodes read every night.
• One permanent id per person across every show, so “everyone this guest has been on” is one lookup. Linked to Wikidata where the person has an entry.
• Host or guest on each episode, with where the credit came from.
• Accuracy we measure. Every week a second, stronger AI re-reads a sample of episodes and scores the credits, and we fix the rules when it finds a mistake.

It is people data, not a podcast directory. It links to each episode, but does not include show notes, artwork or audio, which belong to their publishers. People can ask us to correct or remove their page under our corrections and removal policy, and API customers will apply those removals too.

Example

The shape of one person’s record, with made-up values and two appearances. The final format may differ.

{
  "id": "pi_000123",
  "name": "Dana Rivera",
  "wikidata": "Q00000000",
  "appearances": [
    { "show": "Example Interview Show", "episode": "Dana Rivera on her new book",
      "date": "2026-10-14", "role": "guest", "source": "show notes" },
    { "show": "Dana Rivera's Weekly", "episode": "Episode 212",
      "date": "2026-10-20", "role": "host", "source": "show notes" }
  ]
}

Planned prices

Not on sale yet. These are the prices we expect to charge, so you can tell us whether they work for you.

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