Use case
Turn an article into a podcast episode
Paste a link to a public article. PodThis fetches the text, keeps its facts, adds the context a listener needs, and produces a voiced episode with chapters and a full transcript.
https://example.com/2026/09/why-the-nordic-grid-needs-more-storage
- Paste the link
One public article, blog post or report page. PodThis fetches the page as a well-behaved crawler, respects the site’s robots rules, and extracts the readable text.
- Check the text
The article appears in the material box with its title and source line. Paywalled or login-only pages are refused with a clear message; paste the text you have access to instead.
- Generate
Pick a style and length. The episode is built on the article, attributes its claims, and links back to it as the primary source on the episode page.
How the fetch works
The Link tab in the studio takes a single public URL. Our fetcher identifies itself as PodThisBot, honours the site’s robots.txt, follows at most three redirects and reads up to 5 MB. It extracts the main article text the way reader modes do, and refuses pages that need a login, sit behind a paywall or contain fewer than 300 words of readable text. Long articles are condensed into faithful notes so they fit the studio’s material limit.
Only public web pages work. Google Docs, Notion pages and anything behind authentication cannot be fetched; paste that text instead. Links that point at a PDF are redirected to the File tab.
Attribution and rights
The article is the episode’s primary source. The script attributes claims to it, the episode page lists it first under “Sources & further reading” with a link back, and the hosts do not present the author’s work as their own. You are responsible for having the right to make a podcast from the material; the studio asks you to confirm that, and our DMCA process applies to episodes built on someone else’s text.
Where it fits
A long read you want to hear on a walk, a competitor’s announcement your team should discuss, a research summary for students, a news analysis turned into a daily commute episode. For a recurring topic, the Daily briefing use case follows it on a schedule.
Make yours
Every account starts with 5 credits and gets 3 more each month. A short episode costs one. Every feature is on every plan.