How to integrate Listennotes MCP with Hermes

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Introduction

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Listennotes account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,500+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating Listennotes with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to Listennotes

Ask your agent to connect to Listennotes, or simply request any Listennotes-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new Listennotes connection.


Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to Listennotes or request any Listennotes-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

What is the Listennotes MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Listen Notes MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Listen Notes account. It provides structured and secure access to podcast and episode information, recommendations, curated lists, audience data, and playlists, so your agent can find episodes by title, retrieve podcast details, discover recommendations, review audience demographics, and access playlists on your behalf.

  • Podcast and episode lookup: Have your agent search for episodes by title, retrieve detailed episode information, or fetch a podcast and its episodes.
  • Podcast discovery: Let the agent retrieve best podcast lists, curated collections, trending searches, related search terms, and typeahead suggestions.
  • Personalized recommendations: Direct your agent to find recommended podcasts or episodes based on a podcast or episode you already know.
  • Audience and publisher research: Instruct your agent to review a podcast's audience demographics or find podcasts associated with a publisher's domain.
  • Playlists and podcast submissions: Have your agent fetch your playlists and their details, submit a podcast feed to the Listen Notes database, or request a podcast's deletion.

Way Forward

With Listennotes connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Listennotes action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Post episodes by ids

Retrieves metadata for multiple known podcast episodes by ID in one request.

Create podcast via form data

Retrieves metadata for multiple podcasts by Listen Notes IDs, RSS URLs, Apple Podcasts IDs, or Spotify IDs, with optional latest episodes.

Retrieve curated podcast by id

Retrieves detailed information about a specific curated podcast using its unique identifier.

Fetch best podcasts list

The getBestPodcasts endpoint retrieves a curated list of the best podcasts from the Listen Notes platform.

Retrieve genre list

The GetGenres endpoint retrieves a comprehensive list of available genres within the listennotestest platform.

Get playlists

Retrieves a paginated, sortable list of playlists associated with your Listen Notes account, including basic playlist metadata.

Listen to just listen endpoint

Retrieves a random podcast episode from Listen Notes, with episode metadata and associated podcast information.

Get podcast audience by id

Retrieves audience demographics for a podcast by ID, including audience distribution by region when available.

Get curated podcasts

Retrieves a page of curated podcast lists from Listen Notes, with list metadata and a preview of up to five podcasts in each list.

Retrieve episode by id

Retrieves detailed information about a specific episode using its unique identifier.

Fetch Podcast Details And Episodes

Retrieves detailed metadata for a podcast by ID along with a page of its episodes.

Fetch podcast languages

Retrieves the list of supported podcast languages from Listen Notes for use in content filtering.

Get podcast domains by name

Retrieves a list of podcasts associated with a specified domain name.

Get episode recommendations by id

Retrieves a list of recommended podcast episodes based on a specific episode ID.

Get podcast recommendations by id

Retrieves a list of podcast recommendations based on a specified podcast ID.

Fetch related searches data

Retrieves search terms related to a supplied search query.

Fetch Supported Regions

Retrieves information about available regions in the listennotestest platform.

Retrieve trending searches

Retrieves a list of currently trending search terms related to podcasts.

Search Episode Titles

Searches for podcast episodes by title, optionally restricted to a specified podcast.

Search operation endpoint

Searches Listen Notes for episodes, podcasts, or curated podcast lists using a text query.

Fetch Playlist Info

Retrieves a playlist by ID, including its metadata and a sortable, paginated list of episode, custom audio, or podcast items.

Post podcast rss by id

Requests an RSS feed refresh for a podcast by ID and returns the refresh status and last refresh timestamp when available.

Delete podcast by id

Requests deletion of a podcast by ID, optionally supplying a reason, and returns the request status.

Spell check retrieval

Checks the spelling of a supplied search term and returns misspelled tokens, suggestions, and corrected text with HTML formatting.

Submit podcast rss url

Submits a podcast RSS feed to the Listen Notes database, optionally providing an email for acceptance notifications; submission does not guarantee inclusion.

Get typeahead suggestions

Retrieves typeahead search-term suggestions for a query, with optional podcast and genre suggestions.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Listennotes MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Listennotes tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Listennotes and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Hermes fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Listennotes tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Listennotes scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Listennotes data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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