Podcast Episodes Scraper

Podcast Episodes Scraper returns the episodes of the podcasts you list, read from each show's RSS feed, one row per episode: title, release time, length in seconds, season and episode number where the feed has them, the audio file URL with its type and size, and the show notes as text. Paste Apple Podcasts links, Apple IDs or feed URLs and click Start. A feed holds only what its publisher keeps in it: on 11 October 2026 the feed of The Daily had 66 episodes. It costs $0.50 per 1,000 episodes on the Free plan ($0.25 on Business), and the $5 of monthly credit in Apify's Free plan covers about 10,000 episodes.

What data does it return?

Field	Description
title, publishedAt	Episode title and release time from the feed, ISO 8601 in UTC.
durationSeconds	Length in seconds, converted from whatever format the feed uses, such as 2337.
episodeNumber, seasonNumber, episodeType	Episode and season number when the feed declares them, and full, bonus or trailer.
audioUrl, audioType, audioBytes	Link to the audio file, its type such as audio/mpeg, and its size in bytes when the feed states it.
summary, content	Show notes as plain text. summary is the episode description, cut at 300 characters unless Full show notes is on. With it on, content holds the full notes, which many feeds publish in a longer form with links; otherwise content is null.
link, image	The episode's web page and its artwork, or the show's artwork when the episode has none.
author, explicit	Author of the episode or show, such as The New York Times, and the explicit flag.
categories	Categories the feed gives the episode itself. Rarely filled.
podcastName, podcastAppleId, podcastKey, feedUrl	The show: its name, Apple Podcasts ID (null for a feed given directly), key and RSS feed.
guid, key	The episode's ID in the feed, and the row key episode:<podcastKey>:<guid> that new-only mode compares.
appleUrl, episodeSource	rss for an episode read from the feed. apple marks an episode taken from the Apple directory, which also has its appleUrl.

How to scrape podcast episodes

1. In Podcasts, add one show per line in any of three forms: an Apple Podcasts link such as https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736, the number alone (1200361736), or an RSS feed URL such as https://feeds.npr.org/510289/podcast.xml.
2. Set Maximum episodes per podcast. Episodes are taken newest first, 100 by default.
3. To narrow the episodes, set Episodes published after (YYYY-MM-DD) or Episode keywords (any of).
4. Turn on Full show notes if you need the complete notes, links and timestamps included, and click Start.
5. The episodes appear in the Output tab, from where you can export them as CSV, Excel or JSON. The SUMMARY record in the key-value store counts the episodes found and lists feeds that could not be read.

For an API call:

{
  "podcasts": [
    "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/huberman-lab/id1545953110",
    "https://feeds.npr.org/510289/podcast.xml"
  ],
  "maxEpisodesPerPodcast": 1000,
  "episodesPublishedAfter": "2025-01-01",
  "includeContent": true
}

Example output

The newest episode of The Daily in a run on 11 October 2026, with Full show notes off, so summary ends after 300 characters and content is null.

{
  "type": "episode",
  "key": "episode:podcast:1200361736:9ccd9014-ddf7-4970-91f6-8bd9073646cb",
  "podcastKey": "podcast:1200361736",
  "podcastAppleId": "1200361736",
  "podcastName": "The Daily",
  "feedTitle": "The Daily",
  "feedUrl": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/Sl5CSM3S",
  "title": "Celine Dion’s Triumphant Return to the Stage",
  "link": "https://www.nytimes.com/the-daily",
  "appleUrl": null,
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-11T10:00:00.000Z",
  "durationSeconds": 2337,
  "episodeNumber": null,
  "seasonNumber": null,
  "episodeType": "full",
  "explicit": false,
  "author": "The New York Times",
  "summary": "A dramatic pop music comeback story is underway: Celine Dion is performing again.\nIn 2022, Dion, the renowned Canadian singer, announced that she had stiff person syndrome, a rare and incurable neurological disorder that causes painful muscle spasms and affects roughly one in a million people. Th...",
  "content": null,
  "categories": [],
  "image": "https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/b8eb8df8-42ff-4c4a-ae8b-29af83f5fd23/3ec4dc1d-4c3b-476b-a5cd-076c32d53b2c/3000x3000/cropped_1791570210682.jpg?aid=rss_feed",
  "audioUrl": "https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/03d8b493-87fc-4bd1-931f-8a8e9b945d8a/episodes/dafc2cef-4446-423b-b47d-8df99312ac06/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=03d8b493-87fc-4bd1-931f-8a8e9b945d8a&awEpisodeId=dafc2cef-4446-423b-b47d-8df99312ac06&feed=Sl5CSM3S",
  "audioType": "audio/mpeg",
  "audioBytes": 37393668,
  "guid": "9ccd9014-ddf7-4970-91f6-8bd9073646cb",
  "episodeSource": "rss"
}

How much does it cost to scrape podcast episodes?

	Free plan	Starter	Scale	Business
1,000 episodes	$0.50	$0.40	$0.325	$0.25

You pay only for the events in the table. There is no start fee, and compute time and proxies are included.

Five shows with 2,486 episodes between them, the whole feed of four and the newest 1,000 of The Joe Rogan Experience, cost $1.243 on the Free plan and $0.6215 on Business, with full show notes at the same price. Episodes removed by the date or keyword filter and episodes a watch has already returned are not charged.

Limits

• How far back a show goes depends on its feed. In the run above, Huberman Lab's feed had all 448 episodes since December 2020, Call Her Daddy's 617 since 2018 and Planet Money's 355 since June 2023, while The Joe Rogan Experience reached the cap of 1,000.
• Numbers and sizes are only as complete as the feed: Call Her Daddy numbered 614 of 617 episodes, The Daily and Planet Money none. audioBytes was filled for 1,037 of the 2,486 episodes, and categories for none.
• When a show has no public feed, or its feed cannot be read, episodes come from the Apple directory instead. That source gives at most the latest 200 episodes and no episode numbers, seasons or file sizes, and the rows say episodeSource: "apple". A feed URL without an Apple ID has no such fallback: it is listed under feedsFailed in SUMMARY and adds no rows.
• The keyword filter, Episode keywords (any of), matches whole words and phrases, ignoring case, and looks through the whole show notes even when only 300 characters are returned. sleep kept 130 of the 187 Huberman Lab episodes released since January 2025, most of them without the word in the title.
• Audio files are not downloaded. Many audioUrl links pass through the publisher's measurement redirects before reaching the file, as in the example.
• The run is quick: the five shows above, 2,486 episodes with full notes, took 6 seconds.

New episode alerts

Turn on Return only rows new since the last run, add a Watch name or save the input as a task, and schedule a daily run. Each run returns and charges only episodes whose key no earlier run of the watch returned, and episodes held back by Maximum rows come in the next run. Republishing an episode under a new guid makes it new to the watch.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape podcast episodes?

Publishers put their RSS feeds online so that any podcast app can list and play the episodes, and the actor reads those feeds and Apple's public directory without an account. It returns episode metadata, show notes and links to the audio; it does not download or store audio, and it collects nothing about listeners. Show notes belong to their publishers, so you are responsible for how you reuse them.

Can I use a feed that is not on Apple Podcasts?

Yes. Any RSS or Atom feed URL works on its own, and its episodes come without an Apple ID. For an Apple link or ID, the actor finds the feed through Apple's lookup with the Storefront you set, us by default.

How do I get transcripts?

The actor does not transcribe audio. Pass the audioUrl values to a speech-to-text service, or check content with Full show notes on, since some publishers put a transcript link there.

Related scrapers

• Apple Podcasts Scraper
• Apple Podcast Charts Scraper
• RSS Feed Scraper

Support

This actor is built and maintained by deriverge s.r.o., a software company based in the Czech Republic. If a run fails or a field you need is missing, please open an issue in the Issues tab or write to us at info@deriverge.com. We respond in English and Czech. Runs can be scheduled in Apify Console or started from the API tab, which has examples for Python, JavaScript and cURL and works with Make, Zapier, n8n and the Apify MCP server. If the actor saves you time, a short review helps other people find it.