what is pod-search fr?

pod-search is a small terminal script for Linux that finds a podcast's RSS feed link and copies it straight to the clipboard, so it can be pasted into a terminal based podcast player. The author built it because many podcast clients only need a raw feed URL, and finding that link normally means opening a browser and digging through a podcast directory, which felt like an unnecessary detour for something otherwise done entirely from the terminal. When launched, the script presents a menu built with fzf offering two modes. Searching by name uses the iTunes Search API to look up podcasts by keyword, needs no account or API key, and lets the user pick a match from a list before copying its feed URL. Browsing by genre instead pulls a live list of categories from the Podcast Index API, shows the trending podcasts in whichever category is chosen, and displays a preview with the show's description, episode count, and language before a final pick is made. Genre browsing uses Podcast Index rather than Apple because Apple no longer offers a reliable way to see top podcasts by category, and Podcast Index also provides richer details for the preview. Using genre browsing requires signing up for a free Podcast Index API key and secret and saving them, along with a custom identifying name for the app, into a small configuration file. Keyword search works with no setup at all. The script depends on a handful of common command line tools such as curl, jq, and fzf, plus either wl-copy or xclip depending on whether the system uses Wayland or X11, and it automatically detects which clipboard tool to use. To avoid calling the API constantly, genre browsing caches the category list for 30 days and each genre's trending list for 24 hours, and it will ask whether to reuse a still fresh cache or force a refresh. The author is upfront that genre browsing only surfaces roughly the top 200 trending shows per category rather than every podcast in that genre, and that the tool deliberately skips terminal image previews in favor of plain text descriptions. pod-search is released under the MIT license.