Captivate

Captivate is a podcast hosting platform with shows, episodes, media, RSS feeds, and download analytics. Agents create and schedule episodes, upload media and artwork, pull analytics by show or date range, and react when a new episode publishes.

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A produced episode file and its show notes land in the shared drop folder

Upload Media puts the audio on the show and returns the media id

Agent confirms the media id is attached, because an episode with no media stays a draft whatever its status says

Create Episode writes the title, notes, season, and episode number with a future date so it schedules in the show's own timezone

List Scheduled Episodes confirms the slot landed where the calendar expected it

The producer gets the scheduled date, the draft notes, and the show's Apple Podcasts categories

The producer approves the publish slot and the categories before the date arrives

What This Integration Enables

Captivate is podcast hosting for shows that are a business rather than a hobby. That shows up in what the API is built around: not just episodes and RSS, but download totals, rolling averages on the interval sponsors actually ask about, monthly series, geographic and device breakdowns, and a comparison that aligns two episodes by how long each has been published rather than by calendar date. FlowRunner agents create and schedule episodes, upload audio and artwork, read and update show settings, fetch the feed URL, and pull every one of those analytics surfaces on a schedule.

The part that repays automation most is the publishing sequence itself, because Captivate has two steps that fail quietly. An episode without media attached stays a draft no matter what status is set on it, and a refused write comes back looking like an accepted one. An agent that checks both turns a class of invisible mistakes into visible automation exceptions, which is the difference between a workflow that runs and a workflow anyone trusts.

Without FlowRunner

Publishing is a checklist Upload, paste notes, set the date, check the feed, and hope nothing was skipped

Silent failures A rejected update comes back looking like a success, so a wrong description is discovered by a listener

Sponsor numbers assembled by hand Download figures are exported per episode and pasted into a deck once a month

With FlowRunner

Publishing is a process The agent uploads the media, writes the episode, and schedules it, and the producer reviews one summary

Rejections surface immediately Every write is checked against the response body, so a refused update is an exception a person sees

Sponsor numbers arrive on schedule Download totals, averages, and episode comparisons are pulled and delivered without a manual export

Use Case Scenarios

From finished audio to a scheduled episode

The edited file appears in Dropbox with the show notes in a linked Notion page. The agent calls Upload Media against the right show, reads back the media id, and creates the episode with the notes, the season and episode numbers, and a publish date in the future so Captivate schedules it rather than releasing it. It then reads List Scheduled Episodes to confirm the slot, and posts to the producer in Slack with the date, the notes as they will appear, and a note of which categories the show is filed under. Nothing goes out unattended, and nothing sits half published either.

The sponsor report that builds itself

On the first of the month the agent pulls Get Total Analytics for the show, Get Average Analytics on the interval the sponsor contract names, and Get Monthly Analytics for the trailing year. Compare Episodes lines up the last four releases by days since publication so a new episode is measured against where the others stood at the same age rather than against their lifetime totals. Every figure lands in a Google Sheets tab and a summary posts to the sales channel. The timezone is set explicitly, because a range report run in the wrong zone quietly disagrees with the dashboard.

A guest asks for a takedown

An email arrives from a former guest asking that their episode be pulled. The agent gathers the context a person needs: the episode's total downloads, its position in the season, which other episodes reference it, and what the show's feed currently advertises. It drafts the change but does not make it. Blocking an episode from Apple Podcasts removes it from the place most of the audience finds the show, and no operation restores what that costs.

Human-in-Loop Highlight

Captivate exposes a per episode setting that blocks an episode from Apple Podcasts, and the vendor's own warning is that turning it on takes the episode out. That is a takedown, not a tidy up. Downloads stop, the episode leaves the listing most subscribers browse, and switching the flag back does not restore the placement or the momentum the episode had. So a rights or guest request agent gathers everything and then stops, posting to the show owner: "Episode 112 has 31 references from other episodes' notes and is the second most downloaded of the season. The guest has asked for removal. Blocking it from Apple Podcasts is the operation that satisfies the request. Confirm, or route to legal first?" The owner decides. FlowRunner's human-in-the-loop step is not a rubber stamp on a publish. It sits on the one operation in this connector that takes something away from an audience.

Agent processes routinely

Detects exception requiring judgment

Clear match Continues automatically

Ambiguous Routes to human via preferred channel

Human decides

Agent resumes with decision

Agent Capabilities

23 actions

Account

Get User Retrieves the authenticated user record. The connection test and the source of the user id the show listings need.
List Shows Lists every show the account can reach, whatever role it holds on them.
List Managed Shows Lists only the shows the account owns or manages, with the role held on each. The right listing when a workflow should act on shows rather than just read them.

Shows

Get Show Retrieves one show's settings, artwork references, and metadata.
Update Show Updates show level fields including title, description, author, and Apple Podcasts categories. Categories are limited to three, and the connector sends them in the indexed form the API actually reads rather than the plain array it silently ignores.
Upload Show Artwork Uploads new cover art for a show. Apple's constraints apply: a square JPG or PNG in RGB, sized between the vendor's minimum and maximum, under the size cap.
Get Show Feed URL Returns the show's RSS feed address, which is what every directory and player resolves against.

Episodes

List Episodes Lists a show's published episodes with paging.
List Scheduled Episodes Lists episodes dated in the future. The confirmation step after a scheduled publish, and the source for a release calendar.
Get Episode Retrieves one episode with its notes, media reference, status, and date.
Create Episode Creates an episode. A future date schedules it in the show's own timezone rather than publishing it, and an episode with no media attached remains a draft regardless of the status sent.
Update Episode Updates an existing episode. This is where the Apple Podcasts block flag lives, which is why it carries a human gate rather than running unattended.

Media

Upload Media Uploads an audio file to a show and returns the media id an episode needs to be publishable. Media belongs to the show it was uploaded to and cannot be shared with another.
Get Media Retrieves one media record with its file details.
List Media Lists a show's media library in fixed size pages, so a workflow reading the whole library steps the offset rather than asking for more per page.
Search Media Searches the whole media library by file name, which is how a workflow finds an existing upload without paging the entire list.

Analytics

Get Overview Analytics Returns downloads and unique listeners over a date range, for the show or for one episode.
Get Average Analytics Returns rolling averages over a chosen interval. The sponsor facing number most rate cards are quoted against.
Get Total Analytics Returns all time downloads for the show or a single episode.
Get Monthly Analytics Returns the trailing twelve months as a series, which is the shape a trend chart wants.
Get Analytics In Range Returns a breakdown over an arbitrary range by location, browser, operating system, device, episode, or private subscriber. Timezone decides which day a download falls in, so the connector states the zone it used.
Compare Episodes Compares episodes aligned on how long each has been published rather than on the calendar, so a new release is measured against the others at the same age.
Get Web Player Analytics Returns plays from Captivate's own embedded player, which is a different figure from directory and app downloads.

Triggers

1 triggers

Event Triggers

On New Episode Fires when an episode appears on the show, covering a scheduled episode going live as well as one created through the API or the dashboard. Captivate publishes no webhook management routes, so this trigger polls, and its first pass records the existing library and emits nothing so a new flow does not fire once per back catalog entry.

Frequently Asked Questions

What can FlowRunner do with Captivate?

FlowRunner agents can run Get User, List Shows, and List Managed Shows in Captivate, plus 20 more actions.

Does connecting Captivate to FlowRunner require OAuth?

No. Captivate connects to FlowRunner with session-based authentication, no OAuth flow required.

Can Captivate trigger a FlowRunner workflow automatically?

Yes. Captivate supports 1 trigger that can start a FlowRunner workflow automatically.

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