Apple Podcasts Scraper – Podcasts, Episodes & Reviews API (No API Key)

Extract structured data from Apple Podcasts without an API key: full podcast (show) details, episodes, and reviews — by keyword or numeric podcast ID, in any country storefront. Export to JSON, CSV, or Excel.

This Apple Podcasts scraper is built for podcast publishers, media researchers, marketers, and data teams who want clean, reliable Apple Podcasts data without fighting HTML, browser automation, or rate limits. Use it as a key-free Apple Podcasts API to power discovery research, episode catalogs, and review analysis.

Pairs with the Apple App Store Scraper and Google Play Scraper for full app + podcast intelligence across the Apple and Google ecosystems.

What it does

• 🔎 Search podcasts by keyword and get every matching show.
• 🎙️ Podcast details – complete metadata by numeric podcast ID (lookup batches up to 100 IDs per call).
• 🎧 Episodes – title, release date, duration, audio URL, description, artwork, and more (optional).
• ⭐ Reviews – reviewer, star rating, title, text, helpful votes, and date from the public review feed (optional).
• 🌍 Any country & language – choose the storefront via country.
• 🧱 Deeper back catalog (optional) – when the iTunes episode cap (~200) isn't enough, the show's RSS feed is parsed for older episodes too (still bounded by maxEpisodes).
• 📤 Export anywhere – download as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or pull via the Apify API / dataset.

Why this scraper

Uses Apple's official iTunes endpoints (search, lookup, the episode lookup, and the customer-reviews feed) — so it's fast, reliable, and key-free, with none of the blocking that plagues HTML scrapers. There is no login and no API key to manage. Episodes beyond Apple's cached cap are pulled straight from the show's own RSS feed, so you can reach deeper into the podcast dataset and pull older episodes (up to your maxEpisodes limit).

How discovery works

Apple's Search API is keyword-based for podcasts. Provide searchTerms (each term is URL-encoded and sent to the search endpoint) and/or podcastIds (numeric collection IDs, batched up to 100 per lookup). There is no reliable genre-browse endpoint, so genre IDs are returned only as a passthrough output field — they are not used as an input filter.

Example input

{
  "searchTerms": ["true crime"],
  "podcastIds": ["1200361736"],
  "country": "us",
  "maxPodcastsPerSearch": 50,
  "maxItems": 200,
  "scrapeEpisodes": true,
  "maxEpisodes": 100,
  "scrapeFullEpisodeFeed": false,
  "scrapeReviews": true,
  "maxReviewsPerPodcast": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Example podcast output

{
  "type": "podcast",
  "id": 1200361736,
  "name": "The Daily",
  "artist": "The New York Times",
  "artistId": 121664449,
  "url": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736",
  "feedUrl": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/54nAGcIl",
  "genre": "Daily News",
  "genres": ["News", "Podcasts"],
  "genreIds": ["1489", "26"],
  "episodeCount": 2637,
  "rating": null,
  "ratingCount": null,
  "contentAdvisoryRating": "Clean",
  "explicit": "cleaned",
  "country": "USA",
  "releaseDate": "2026-06-20T09:00:00Z",
  "artwork": "https://.../600x600bb.jpg",
  "artworkUrl30": "https://.../30x30bb.jpg",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-20T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Note: rating and ratingCount are frequently null for podcasts — Apple does not expose aggregate star ratings in the search/lookup responses. Per-review star ratings are available via scrapeReviews.

Example episode output

{
  "type": "episode",
  "podcastId": 1200361736,
  "podcastName": "The Daily",
  "id": 1000659912345,
  "title": "Friday's Episode",
  "episodeGuid": "gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/...",
  "releaseDate": "2026-06-20T09:00:00Z",
  "durationMs": 1620000,
  "description": "Today on the show...",
  "shortDescription": "Today on the show...",
  "audioUrl": "https://.../episode.mp3",
  "previewUrl": "https://.../episode.mp3",
  "fileExtension": "mp3",
  "contentType": "audio",
  "contentAdvisoryRating": "clean",
  "closedCaptioning": "none",
  "feedUrl": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/54nAGcIl",
  "artwork": "https://.../600x600bb.jpg",
  "trackViewUrl": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/.../id1000659912345",
  "episodeNumber": null,
  "seasonNumber": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-20T12:00:00.000Z"
}

episodeNumber and seasonNumber are null for episodes from the iTunes lookup; they are only populated for episodes pulled from the RSS feed (when scrapeFullEpisodeFeed is on). RSS-sourced episodes also carry an extra "source": "rss" field and have id: null, shortDescription: null, and trackViewUrl: null (no iTunes track data).

Example review output

{
  "type": "review",
  "podcastId": 1200361736,
  "reviewId": "1234567890",
  "userName": "podfan_99",
  "userUrl": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/reviews/id...",
  "title": "Essential listening",
  "text": "I start every morning with this show.",
  "score": 5,
  "voteSum": 3,
  "voteCount": 4,
  "updated": "2026-06-19T08:12:00-07:00",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-20T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Output fields

Each item carries a type discriminator: podcast, episode, or review. Use it to split the mixed dataset into three clean tables (see the dataset views: Podcasts, Episodes, Reviews).

Podcast (type: "podcast")

Field	Type	Description
type	string	Always "podcast".
id	number	iTunes collection ID (falls back to track ID).
name	string	Podcast (show) name.
artist	string	Publisher / author name.
artistId	number	Publisher iTunes artist ID.
url	string	Apple Podcasts page URL.
feedUrl	string	The show's real RSS feed URL.
genre	string	Primary genre name.
genres	array	All genre names.
genreIds	array	All genre IDs (passthrough only; not an input filter).
episodeCount	number	Track count reported by Apple.
rating	number	Aggregate star rating (often null for podcasts).
ratingCount	number	Number of ratings (often null for podcasts).
contentAdvisoryRating	string	Content advisory, e.g. "Clean" / "Explicit".
explicit	string	Explicitness flag, e.g. "cleaned" / "explicit" / "notExplicit".
country	string	Storefront country of the result (e.g. "USA").
releaseDate	string	Latest episode date reported by Apple (ISO 8601).
artwork	string	Highest-resolution artwork available (600 → 100 → 60 px).
artworkUrl30	string	30px thumbnail artwork.
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of the scrape.

Episode (type: "episode")

Field	Type	Description
type	string	Always "episode".
podcastId	number	Parent podcast collection ID.
podcastName	string	Parent podcast name.
id	number	Episode track ID (null for RSS-sourced episodes).
title	string	Episode title.
episodeGuid	string	Episode GUID.
releaseDate	string	Publish date.
durationMs	number	Duration in milliseconds.
description	string	Episode notes / show notes.
shortDescription	string	Short description (null for RSS-sourced episodes).
audioUrl	string	Direct media URL.
previewUrl	string	Preview/media URL (usually identical to audioUrl).
fileExtension	string	Media file extension, e.g. mp3 / m4a / mp4.
contentType	string	Media content type, e.g. audio / video.
contentAdvisoryRating	string	Episode advisory flag (e.g. clean / explicit).
closedCaptioning	string	Closed-captioning flag from the iTunes lookup.
feedUrl	string	The show's RSS feed URL.
artwork	string	Highest-resolution episode/show artwork (600 → 160 → 60 px).
trackViewUrl	string	Apple Podcasts episode URL (null for RSS-sourced episodes).
episodeNumber	number	Episode number — only populated from the RSS feed fallback.
seasonNumber	number	Season number — only populated from the RSS feed fallback.
source	string	Present and equal to "rss" only for episodes pulled from the RSS feed; absent for iTunes-lookup episodes.
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of the scrape.

Review (type: "review")

Field	Type	Description
type	string	Always "review".
podcastId	number	Podcast the review belongs to.
reviewId	string	Review ID.
userName	string	Reviewer display name.
userUrl	string	Reviewer profile URL.
title	string	Review title.
text	string	Review body.
score	number	Star rating (1–5).
voteSum	number	Sum of helpful votes.
voteCount	number	Number of helpful votes cast.
updated	string	Review date (ISO 8601 with offset).
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of the scrape.

Common use cases

• Discovery & competitive research – see which shows rank for your target keywords in any storefront.
• Episode catalogs – build a dataset of episodes with audio URLs, durations, and artwork.
• Review analysis & sentiment – export reviews and star ratings to JSON/CSV for sentiment and topic analysis.
• Catalog monitoring – track publish cadence, episode counts, and metadata over time.
• Podcast data feeds – power dashboards, BI tools, or your own database with a clean podcast dataset.
• Lead & PR research – find shows and publishers in a niche for outreach and advertising.

Input reference

Field	Type	Default	Description
searchTerms	array	–	Keywords to search Apple Podcasts (each must be non-empty).
podcastIds	array	–	Numeric iTunes collection IDs to scrape directly (batched 100 per lookup).
country	string	us	Two-letter storefront country code.
maxPodcastsPerSearch	integer	50	Max podcasts per search term (1–200).
maxItems	integer	200	Max podcasts in total (0 = no limit).
scrapeEpisodes	boolean	false	Also fetch episodes for every podcast found.
maxEpisodes	integer	100	Cap on episodes per podcast (only when scrapeEpisodes is on).
scrapeFullEpisodeFeed	boolean	false	Parse the show's RSS feed for older episodes when the lookup cap (~200) isn't enough. Total per podcast is still bounded by maxEpisodes, so raise maxEpisodes to actually pull more.
scrapeReviews	boolean	false	Also scrape reviews for every podcast found.
maxReviewsPerPodcast	integer	100	Cap on reviews per podcast (only when scrapeReviews is on).
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy	Proxy settings (the default Apify proxy is plenty).

FAQ

Do I need an Apple/iTunes API key? No. This Apple Podcasts scraper uses Apple's public iTunes endpoints — there is no API key and no login required.

How do I find a podcast ID? It's the number in the Apple Podcasts URL, e.g. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736 → 1200361736.

Why are rating and ratingCount empty? Apple does not expose aggregate star ratings for podcasts in the search/lookup responses. Enable scrapeReviews to get per-review star ratings (score) instead.

How many episodes can I get? The iTunes lookup returns up to ~200 most-recent episodes — and for some shows fewer, because it reflects Apple's cached copy of the feed. To reach older episodes, enable scrapeFullEpisodeFeed (which parses the show's own RSS feed) and raise maxEpisodes above the lookup count — the total per podcast is always capped by maxEpisodes, so leave it at the default 100 and the RSS fallback won't add anything.

How many reviews can I get? Apple's public review feed exposes up to ~500 most-recent reviews per podcast (about 10 pages × ~50), per storefront.

Can I scrape other countries? Yes — set country to gb, de, jp, ca, au, etc. The storefront also affects the review feed and availability.

How does pagination work? Search results are capped per term by maxPodcastsPerSearch (Apple's max is 200). Reviews are auto-paginated through the customer-reviews feed up to 10 pages (the ~500-review ceiling) and your maxReviewsPerPodcast cap; episodes come from the iTunes lookup and, optionally, the show's RSS feed for older episodes — always bounded by maxEpisodes. You never manage page tokens manually.

Do I need a proxy? Apple's iTunes endpoints are open and rarely block, so the default Apify proxy is sufficient. You can supply your own proxyConfiguration if you prefer.

What export formats are supported? Results are stored in an Apify dataset and can be exported to JSON, CSV, or Excel, or pulled programmatically via the Apify API.

Are new episodes always present? Episodes published on Apple Podcasts can lag in the iTunes API due to a known sync delay, so "most recent" is best-effort. The RSS fallback (scrapeFullEpisodeFeed) reflects the publisher's feed directly.

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