# Particle Pro – Get Podcast Format Profile

> Particle Pro – Get Podcast Format Profile is a paid API for AI agents from api.particle.pro, paid per call via x402, $0.03/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns the full production format breakdown for a podcast, including guest frequency, detected formats (interview, panel, call_in, solo_narrated), advertiser presence, video presence, and episode length distribution.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.particle.pro/v1/podcasts/:id/format
- Price: $0.03/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/particle-pro-get-podcast-format-profile-232a5248
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Qa2mvrN6kppeMe07WKlxp

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability particle-pro-get-podcast-format-profile-232a5248
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the full format profile for the 'all-in' podcast — I want to know what production formats it uses, how often it features guests, whether it has ads, and how long episodes typically run?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a detailed, structured production-format analysis of a specific podcast — particularly when you need to distinguish between interview-heavy, solo-narrated, panel, or call-in shows, or when assessing advertiser and video presence. Prefer this over generic podcast search endpoints when the podcast is already identified and you need format intelligence rather than discovery or episode content.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unknown podcast slug/ID returns a 404 not found error
- Podcast exists on a platform not indexed by Particle Pro returns empty or null format data
- Insufficient episode history results in low-confidence or partial format breakdown
- Malformed path parameter (non-string or missing ID) returns a 400 validation error
- Payment not provided or insufficient USDC balance triggers a 402 payment required response

## How this service works

Get a podcast's format profile. Returns the full format breakdown for a podcast: how often episodes feature guests, detected production formats (interview, panel, call_in, solo_narrated), advertiser and video presence, episode length distribution

## Output

Returns a structured format profile for the specified podcast, including the frequency of guest appearances, a breakdown of detected production formats (interview, panel, call_in, solo_narrated) with relative weights or percentages, flags for advertiser presence and video availability, and a statistical distribution of episode lengths.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "id"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "id": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Podcast slug (e.g., 'all-in'), internal ID, or numeric iTunes ID"
      }
     }
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/particle-pro-get-podcast-format-profile-232a5248/health.json
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