# Changelog of Podcast Host Email & Lead Scraper (`chilly_damask/podcast-host-email-lead-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/chilly\_damask/podcast-host-email-lead-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/chilly\_damask/podcast-host-email-lead-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 1.0.0 — 2026-07-14

First public release.

- Public, **signed-out** extraction of podcast host business emails and social links from **Apple Podcasts + RSS** — no login, no API keys, no browser, HTTP-only.
- Dual input: **niche keywords** (public iTunes Search API), **Apple Podcasts IDs** (public iTunes Lookup API), and/or **direct RSS feed URLs**.
- Host email recovered from the feed's **`<itunes:owner>` tag** (fallbacks: channel `itunes:email`, `managingEditor`, `webMaster`); when the feed exposes none, an optional **one-hop website / Linktree scan** recovers it. Each email is tagged with its provenance (`owner` / `website` / `linktree`).
- Also emits website, category, episode count, last-episode date, active status, language, author, artwork, and social links (Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Discord, Telegram).
- `bestEmail` / `hostEmail` prefer a **business domain** over freemail (Gmail, Outlook, etc.).
- Pay-per-event pricing: **$0.02 per unique email found**, **$0.01 per keyword search** — no email found, no charge (the `hasEmail` gate).
- Resilient engine: 3 retries with backoff, body-download-safe timeout, response-size cap, run-global dedupe by Apple collection ID / feed URL, and honest `{ "status": "error" }` rows instead of silently dropped shows.

#### Scope

- Apple Podcasts + RSS only. Spotify-exclusive and YouTube-exclusive shows have no public RSS feed with an owner email and are out of reach by design.

#### Roadmap

- Optional show-notes / episode-description email recovery.
- Additional podcast directories where a public feed is available.