Podcast Email Finder: Host Contacts for Guest Outreach

Find the podcast email and host contacts for guest outreach, sponsorship sales and PR. Answers "podcast contact email", "podcast host email", "podcast email finder" and "podcast contacts" for any show: give it Apple Podcasts links, RSS feeds or a niche keyword, and get each show's public owner email, other emails, website, Instagram, X, LinkedIn and other socials, plus how active the show is. You pay $0.01 only for a podcast where an email was found; a podcast with no email is returned free. No login, no API key, no CAPTCHA.

Built to be called by AI agents and lead-generation pipelines as well as people: one row per podcast, the same fields every time, and the price tied to the answer you wanted.

Use cases

• Guest booking: pitch yourself or a client as a guest to every active show in a niche ("b2b saas", "gardening", "personal finance"), with the address the show registered for itself.
• Sponsorship and ad sales: build a list of shows in your market, filter to the ones still publishing, and reach the owner or network.
• PR and book launches: find the shows your audience listens to and the right inbox for each.
• Podcast networks, agencies and tools: enrich a list of Apple IDs or RSS feeds with owner, website, socials, episode count and last-episode date.
• AI agents: "find the contact email for these 30 podcasts" as one tool call that charges only for hits.

What it finds

Every contact a show publishes openly:

• Owner email from the RSS feed's itunes:owner tag: the address the show gave Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Found for about 90% of shows in our test runs.
• Other feed emails: managingEditor / webMaster, the show description, and a footer address repeated across recent episodes (a one-off address in a single episode, usually a guest's, is left out).
• Website emails, phones and socials: with followLinks on (default), up to 2 pages of the show's own website (its page, then its contact page if no email turned up). Only addresses that belong to the site are kept; theme, platform and sponsor addresses are dropped.
• Socials: Instagram, X, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn and more, from the show description, podcast:person tags and the website's header and footer.
• Show details: Apple ID and URL, feed URL, author, hosts (podcast:person), genres, language, explicit flag, episode count, first and last episode dates, active flag, artwork and funding links.

How it works

1. A keyword is searched in the Apple Podcasts directory (up to 200 shows per keyword, in the country you choose). An Apple URL or ID is looked up the same way. An RSS URL is read directly.
2. Each show's RSS feed is streamed and parsed: channel header first, then every episode for the counts and dates. Very large feeds (over 20 MB) are cut off after the header and the first episodes; firstEpisodeAt is then empty.
3. The show's own website is found (its RSS link, or a link in its notes that carries the show's name) and up to 2 pages of it are read.

Plain HTTP, no browser. Apple's directory API is paced to about 20 calls a minute with backoff, and each keyword costs one call, so a 200-show keyword run takes a few minutes.

Input

Field	Meaning
podcasts	Apple Podcasts URLs, Apple IDs (1191490065) or RSS feed URLs.
searchKeywords	Find shows by niche through Apple Podcasts search, e.g. true crime.
maxPodcastsPerKeyword	Shows taken per keyword (default 50, max 200).
country	Apple Podcasts storefront to search, e.g. US, GB, DE (default US).
activeWithinDays	Skip shows with no episode in this many days, e.g. 90. Skipped shows are not returned or charged.
onlyWithEmail	Output only shows with a public email (default false). Shows without one are free either way.
followLinks	Visit up to 2 pages of the show's website for more emails and socials (default true).
maxConcurrency, delaySecs, requestTimeoutSecs, respectRobotsTxt, proxyConfiguration	Pacing and network options. No proxy by default.

Leave everything empty to run a built-in example: 5 gardening podcasts (5 x $0.01 = $0.05 at most), stated in the run's status message.

{
  "searchKeywords": ["b2b marketing", "saas founders"],
  "maxPodcastsPerKeyword": 100,
  "country": "US",
  "activeWithinDays": 90,
  "onlyWithEmail": true
}

Output

One row per podcast. Fields that were not found are empty, never invented.

{
  "podcastName": "The Tim Ferriss Show",
  "appleId": 863897795,
  "applePodcastsUrl": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tim-ferriss-show/id863897795",
  "feedUrl": "https://rss.art19.com/tim-ferriss-show",
  "website": "https://tim.blog/podcast",
  "ownerName": "Tim Ferriss",
  "ownerEmail": "tim@fourhourbody.com",
  "email": "tim@fourhourbody.com",
  "author": "Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig",
  "emails": [{"email": "tim@fourhourbody.com", "source": "rss-owner"}],
  "phones": [],
  "socials": {
    "twitter": "https://x.com/tferriss",
    "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/timferriss",
    "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/timferriss",
    "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/@timferriss"
  },
  "hosts": [],
  "genres": ["Entrepreneurship", "Business"],
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US",
  "explicit": false,
  "episodeCount": 890,
  "lastEpisodeAt": "2026-10-08T17:30:00+00:00",
  "firstEpisodeAt": null,
  "isActive": true,
  "artworkUrl": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/.../600x600bb.jpg",
  "hasEmail": true,
  "websitePagesVisited": 2,
  "status": "ok",
  "input": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tim-ferriss-show/id863897795",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-09T14:40:37+00:00"
}

emails[].source says where each address came from: rss-owner (the feed's owner tag), rss-editor (managingEditor or webMaster), rss-description (the show description), rss-episode (a footer repeated in recent show notes) or website (the show's own site). email is the best single address: the owner's, unless that is a hosting platform's relay address and a direct one exists. isActive is true when the newest episode is from the last 90 days. firstEpisodeAt is null here because this feed is 30 MB, past the 20 MB read limit; for most shows it is filled. A show that cannot be read (feed gone, bad ID) gets a row with status: "error" and an error message, and is not charged.

The dataset has two views: Podcast contacts (one row per show) and All emails (one row per email, with its source), ready to export as CSV or Excel.

Pricing

Pay per answer, one event:

• podcast-with-email: $0.01 for each podcast where at least one public email was found.
• A podcast with no email is free. It is still returned, with its website, socials and stats.
• A podcast that cannot be read (status: "error") is free. There is no start fee.

Worked example. You search a niche and take 200 shows; about 80% of them carry a public email: 160 x $0.01 = $1.60. The 40 shows without an email cost nothing. Turn on onlyWithEmail to leave them out of the dataset; the price is the same.

Compared with the alternatives. The most-used podcast directory scraper charges $0.05 for every podcast, email or not, so the same 200 shows cost $10. Contact-only tools charge up to $0.50 per contact. Here a found email costs $0.01 and a miss costs nothing.

Set a maximum total charge on the run and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

What to expect

Measured on test runs (October 2026, US store): 47 of 52 shows in a "personal finance" run had a public email (90%), 43 of 46 across "b2b marketing" and "true crime". Independent shows usually list a personal or show address; big network shows (NBC, CBC, iHeart) usually list the network's podcast desk. Socials were found for about 70% of shows. A 50-show run takes about 30 to 40 seconds.

Limits

• Keyword search returns what Apple's directory ranks for the keyword, at most 200 shows per keyword and country. Use several keywords or countries for more.
• Only public RSS feeds are read. Private, paid (subscriber-only) and Spotify-exclusive shows without a public feed cannot be read.
• Some hosts (Spotify for Creators, some networks) hide the owner email from the feed; those shows rely on their website for an email.
• Only the show's own website is visited, at most 2 pages. Social platforms are listed, never scraped.
• Very large feeds (over 20 MB, a few long-running daily shows) are read in part: the header and contacts are complete, firstEpisodeAt is empty and episodeCount is the larger of the part read and Apple's count.

Use it from n8n, Make, Zapier or an AI agent

Actor ID: datagleaner/podcast-email-finder

Minimal input:

{"searchKeywords": ["personal finance"], "maxPodcastsPerKeyword": 20}

Each tool below runs this Actor with your own Apify API token.

• n8n: add the Apify node (@apify/n8n-nodes-apify). On n8n Cloud you install it from the community node registry. Choose Run an Actor and get dataset, set Actor to datagleaner/podcast-email-finder and paste the input above.

• Make: use the Apify app's Run an Actor module, then Get Dataset Items to read the results. Watch Actor Runs can trigger a scenario when a run finishes.

• Zapier: use the Apify action Run Actor, then the search Fetch dataset items. The trigger Finished Actor run starts a Zap when a run ends.

• AI agents (MCP): connect to https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=datagleaner/podcast-email-finder. Without a token, an agent can still find Actors with the search-actors tool, but running this one needs your Apify account. In Claude Code:

    claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=datagleaner/podcast-email-finder"
  

  Then run /mcp to sign in to Apify in your browser. Then ask in plain language, for example: "Find 50 active podcasts about B2B SaaS and give me each host's contact email, or get the owner emails for these Apple Podcasts links."

• LangChain (Python):

# pip install langchain-apify, then set APIFY_TOKEN in your environment
import json
from langchain_apify import ApifyActorsTool
tool = ApifyActorsTool("datagleaner/podcast-email-finder")
result = tool.invoke({"run_input": json.loads('{"searchKeywords": ["personal finance"], "maxPodcastsPerKeyword": 20}')})

FAQ

Where does the email come from? Mostly from the show's own RSS feed, where the owner publishes it so that directories can verify the show. Each address carries its source.

Do I need an Apple, Spotify or Podchaser account? No. Only public data is read, with no login or API key.

Which inputs work? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/name/id123456789, a bare Apple ID, or any RSS feed URL (https://feeds.simplecast.com/..., https://anchor.fm/s/.../podcast/rss, Libsyn, Buzzsprout, Megaphone, Art19 and so on).

Can I get only shows that are still publishing? Yes: set activeWithinDays, e.g. 90. Shows that fail it are skipped before their feed is even fetched when Apple already knows their last episode date.

What happens if I start it with no input? It runs the built-in example, 5 gardening podcasts, and says so in the status message.

Responsible use

The owner email is published by the show's owner in the public feed, for directories and listeners to reach the show. This Actor reads public data only. Email addresses can still be personal data: you are responsible for lawful use, including GDPR, CAN-SPAM and other anti-spam rules, honoring opt-outs, and sending relevant, individual pitches rather than bulk mail.