Podcast Episode Scraper

Podcast Scraper API for any podcast with an RSS feed: one row per episode with the title, audio file URL, duration, season and episode number, date, description and artwork, plus the show's title and language. Use it to build podcast databases, feed transcription pipelines or track new episodes.

Cost: $0.001 per episode ($1 per 1,000). Feeds that cannot be read, addresses that are not feeds, and invalid entries are free. No login or API key.

What does Podcast Episode Scraper do?

It reads each podcast's RSS feed, including the iTunes tags podcast apps use (duration, season, episode, artwork), and returns the newest episodes first. It never reads host or author names or emails.

• Podcast databases: collect episodes, lengths and audio links of many shows in one table.
• Transcription and AI: pass audio URLs to a speech-to-text Actor, such as our Audio and Podcast Transcription.
• Monitoring: schedule it with Published since to get each new episode.

Try it now. The form opens with two NASA podcasts, 5 episodes each. Click Start; it takes a few seconds and costs about one cent.

How to use the podcast scraper

1. Paste podcast RSS feed addresses into Podcast feeds, one per line.
2. Set Episodes per feed and, if you want, Published since.
3. Click Start, then open the Episodes table or download the rows.

How much does the podcast scraper cost?

Event	Price
Episode (episode)	$0.001 ($1 per 1,000)
Feed that cannot be read, not a feed, or invalid address	Free

Apify adds only its small standard fee per run start. You can set a spending limit on any run, and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

Example: you build a list of 200 podcasts with their last 50 episodes each: 10,000 episodes cost $10.

Input

{
  "feedUrls": [
    "https://www.nasa.gov/feeds/podcasts/houston-we-have-a-podcast",
    "https://www.nasa.gov/feeds/podcasts/small-steps-giant-leaps"
  ],
  "maxEpisodesPerFeed": 5
}

Output

One row per result:

{
  "feedUrl": "https://www.nasa.gov/feeds/podcasts/small-steps-giant-leaps",
  "podcastTitle": "Small Steps, Giant Leaps",
  "title": "Human Factors: Designing Systems with People in Mind",
  "audioUrl": "https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NATIONALAERONAUTICSANDSPACEADMINISTRATION6370129648.mp3",
  "audioType": "audio/mpeg",
  "durationSeconds": 1139,
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-17T15:00:00.000Z",
  "status": "ok",
  "charged": true
}

status is ok for episodes, which are charged. A feed that cannot be read gives one free row with the reason in error. A STATS record in the key-value store counts episodes, free rows and requests.

Related Actors

• Speech to Text & Audio Transcription: Use it to transcribe audio, video and podcast episodes to text with timestamps and subtitles.
• RSS Feed Reader API: Use it to read RSS and Atom feeds into one row per item.
• Article Extractor: Use it to pull clean article text, dates and metadata from news and blog pages.
• Kokoro Text to Speech: Use it to turn text into spoken MP3 audio with 41 voices.

FAQ

Where do I find a podcast's RSS feed? Most podcast apps and hosting pages show it under Share, About or RSS. Apple Podcasts does not show it directly; the show's own website usually links it.

Does it download the audio? No. It returns the audio file URL. To get text, pass the URLs to a transcription Actor.

Does it respect robots.txt? Yes. It skips feeds the site does not allow for the token DonMangu-PodcastScraper or for all crawlers, as free rows.

Does it include host names? No. It returns episodes and show details, not personal details about hosts or guests.