Which episode did they talk about that?
A podcast is hundreds of hours of spoken audio that nobody can search. Taffy indexes every transcript and every comment across a whole show, so you can find which episode a topic came up in and jump straight to the timestamp — no scrubbing.
Works on any podcast published to YouTube. Yours or anyone's.
The archive grows. It never gets more findable.
Three hundred episodes, four hours each. Everything worth knowing is in there somewhere, and there is no way to search for it. Not for you, and not for the listener who swears you covered this once.
"Which episode was that in?"
A guest, a study, a story you half-remember. You know you said it. You cannot find it. Neither can the listener asking in the comments, so the answer is lost even though it exists.
The back catalog just sits there
Every great segment you ever recorded is a clip, a newsletter, a shownotes link, a sequel. But repurposing means re-listening, and re-listening to three hundred hours is not a plan.
The audience is telling you what to make next
Guest requests, topic requests, the questions that keep coming back — all of it is in the comments, spread across hundreds of episodes, where no one will ever read it in one place.
Point Taffy at the show. Ask it anything.
Taffy pulls every episode transcript and every comment on the podcast's YouTube channel and builds one searchable index. Then you ask questions in plain language and get answers with the episode and timestamp attached.
- Every episode's transcript, searched by meaning rather than exact words.
- The exact episode and timestamp for every answer — jump straight there.
- Every comment indexed too, so you can ask what listeners keep requesting.
- Works on any podcast on YouTube — your own show or one you research.
Five things a searchable archive unlocks
Whether it is your show or someone else's, an indexed back catalog answers questions that hours of scrubbing never could.
Which episode mentioned it
Ask what the host said about a topic, a guest, or a study across the whole show. Get back the episodes and the timestamps, ranked — not a list of titles to go read yourself.
Mine what you already recorded
Surface the strongest self-contained segments across every episode — the ones worth a short, a newsletter, or a re-release. The archive stops being dead weight and starts being a content library.
"Which episode should I start with?"
The most common question a big show gets, and the hardest to answer at scale. Point a listener's question at the index and hand back the exact episodes that cover what they asked about.
Research a show before you go on it
Going on someone's podcast, or booking one? Index their channel and ask what they have already covered, what their audience keeps asking, and what has never been discussed — so you bring the segment nobody else did.
Let the audience plan the next season
Every comment across every episode, in one index. Which guests do they keep asking for? Which topics get "please do a full episode on this"? Which explanations landed and which confused people? That is your next recording list, in their words.
Search what was said, not what it was titled
Episode titles are marketing. The thing you actually need is buried forty minutes into an episode called something completely unrelated. Taffy searches the spoken content, so you find the segment even when the title gives no hint.
- "Where did the host explain their morning routine?"
- "Which guest talked about raising a first fund?"
- "Find every time they recommended a book."
Chat with the whole show
Ask questions across every episode and every comment at once — the transcript and the audience together. No other podcast tool reads both.
- "Summarize everything they've said about sleep."
- "Which guests got the best audience reaction?"
- "What questions come up in the comments most?"
Who searches a podcast this way
- Hosts with a deep back catalog who want to repurpose old segments and answer "which episode" without re-listening.
- Listeners and researchers tracking what a favourite show has said about a topic across years of episodes.
- Producers and editors pulling clips and shownotes from long episodes on a schedule.
- Guests and bookers researching a show's archive and audience before an appearance.
Podcast search FAQ
YouTube and podcast apps only search episode titles and descriptions, not what was actually said inside an episode. To find which episode a topic was mentioned in, the transcripts have to be indexed. Taffy indexes every transcript across a whole show's YouTube channel and searches them by meaning, then returns the episode and the exact timestamp so you can jump straight there instead of scrubbing through hours of audio.
Yes. Taffy works with any public YouTube channel, so you can search any podcast that publishes on YouTube, not only your own. Listeners and researchers use it on shows they follow; hosts use it on their own archive and on other shows in their niche.
Taffy indexes YouTube channels, so it covers any podcast whose episodes are on YouTube — which is now most of them. If a show is audio-only and never posts to YouTube, there is nothing for Taffy to index. If the episodes are on YouTube, it does not matter whether they are full video or a static audio waveform, because Taffy reads the transcript.
Yes, and no other podcast tool does this. Taffy indexes every comment across the channel alongside the transcripts, so a host can ask which guests and topics listeners keep requesting, which moments they replay, and which questions recur — evidence for what to record next, in the audience's own words.
Those search show and episode titles, and sometimes descriptions. None of them search the spoken content of an episode, and none search the comments. Taffy indexes the full transcript and the full comment archive across the whole show, and cites the episode and timestamp for every answer.
Make the whole archive searchable.
Search a podcast that is already indexed, or index your own show and its comments and finally get the years of episodes back as something you can query.