Pocket Casts
Search and list podcasts. Queue and play podcast episodes from your agent.
Details
Pocket Casts skill lets your agent search podcasts, list episodes, and manage queue. For podcast discovery and listening.
When to use
Use when the agent should recommend or queue podcasts. May use Pocket Casts or similar API; good for media routines.
How Pocket Casts fits into your OpenClaw setup
Media skills extend OpenClaw beyond text — generating, converting, and managing images, audio, and video from the same conversational interface you use for everything else. Pocket Casts is part of this group, and it turns requests that would normally mean opening a separate app into a single message.
How it works in practice
Working with Pocket Casts feels like briefing a colleague: describe what you want, attach or reference the source material, and the assistant returns the result in the channel. Iteration is fast because feedback is conversational — say what to change and the next version arrives in the same thread.
Installing Pocket Casts
Setup takes a few minutes. Open a terminal in your OpenClaw directory, run the command below, and restart the assistant so it picks up the new capability. Check the skill's README before first use — if it needs an API key or account access, you want that configured up front.
When the assistant comes back online, give it one easy request that only this skill can handle. If it responds correctly, you are done. If not, you have caught the problem while the install is still fresh in your mind — far better than discovering it mid-task next week.
clawhub install pocket-castsGetting the most out of it
Skills compound. Pocket Casts on its own is useful; combined with the rest of a well-chosen toolkit, it becomes part of workflows the assistant strings together without being told. Browse the rest of the ClawHub catalogue with that in mind — the best setups are built around how you actually work, not around individual features.
If you would rather skip the trial and error, that is exactly what we do. We install and configure OpenClaw, select and tune skills like Pocket Casts for your workflow, and build custom skills where the catalogue falls short.