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AI Automates Podcast Website Updates

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Managing a personal website filled with podcast episodes and blog posts is tedious work. A developer found that manually updating markdown files and uploading images to Cloudinary took too much time. This led them to explore AI agents and Model Context Protocols to finally automate the entire content workflow, saving hours of repetitive effort.

Initially, the developer used VSCode prompts with Copilot and the Playwright MCP to scrape podcast data. This saved time but still left image management as a manual hurdle. The real breakthrough came when they adopted Goose, an AI coding agent from Block. This allowed for a more flexible, editor-free approach to task automation.

The final solution integrated three key MCPs: Playwright for data scraping, Cloudinary for image hosting, and GitHub for version control. Goose orchestrated the process, pulling podcast details, uploading images directly to Cloudinary, and creating a pull request. This turned a multi-step, manual chore into a single-command operation, democratizing site updates for non-technical users.