# There doesnt seem to be an episode search?
**URL:** https://forum.antennapod.org/t/there-doesnt-seem-to-be-an-episode-search/166
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 20, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/there-doesnt-seem-to-be-an-episode-search/166 "2020-08-20T21:19:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@gruia](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/gruia)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/there-doesnt-seem-to-be-an-episode-search/166/1 "2020-08-20T21:19:36Z")
u can only search for podcasts not episodes.
i find it very useful and got used to it in other tools… like looking for a person and getting all episodes on all podcasts where he spoke
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### Author:  [@tenkara\_vt](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/tenkara_vt)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/there-doesnt-seem-to-be-an-episode-search/166/2 "2020-08-20T22:11:45Z")
There are a few other discussions here on the forum that discuss this topic. Just search “episode” using the search feature.
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### Author:  [@gruia](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/gruia)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/there-doesnt-seem-to-be-an-episode-search/166/3 "2020-08-21T08:55:13Z")
first of all i want to search episodes of a certain person, so i would search for a person. are you saying that if i add “episode” in the add new podcast search box … it will find episodes while not adding doesnt find anything?
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### Author:  [@ByteHamster](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/ByteHamster)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 9:08am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/there-doesnt-seem-to-be-an-episode-search/166/4 "2020-08-21T09:08:00Z")
> [@gruia](#):
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> are you saying that if i add “episode” in the add new podcast search box … it will find episodes while not adding doesnt find anything?
No. The idea was to search this forum. The reason why episode search is not possible was already explained here:
> [@Newbie Questions](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/newbie-questions/84/2):
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> Hi and welcome to the forum, @karramarro! I hope that my reply is not too long and complicated. It got a bit longer than what I originally planned to write. If you have more questions, feel free to ask slight_smile There are basically two ways how to make a podcast app: Centralized: There is a central server (run by the company that develops the app) that checks for new episodes and then delivers them to you. Distributed: The app itself checks new episodes. AntennaPod uses method 2, eg. we…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2022, 8:11am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/there-doesnt-seem-to-be-an-episode-search/166/5 "2022-02-25T08:11:13Z")