Podcast Outreach Leads: Host Emails, No API Key

Find podcasts to pitch for guest spots, interviews, and sponsorships, with each show's contact email. Search Apple Podcasts by topic, such as marketing, small business, or health, and get one clean lead per show with the contact email, host, website, genre, language, episode count, latest episode date, and links, read from the show's own public RSS feed.

No API key, account, or login is needed. Filter by genre, language, recent activity, and episode count, and turn on new podcasts only so a weekly schedule builds a growing outreach list and pays only for shows you have not received before.

Who is it for?

• Founders, authors, and experts booking themselves as podcast guests.
• PR agencies and podcast booking services building pitch lists for clients.
• Brands and media buyers looking for shows to sponsor in their niche.
• Podcast networks and growth agencies finding shows to sign or offer services to.
• Marketers and researchers mapping the active shows in a topic.

No API key is needed, so you can start right away on the free Apify plan.

What data does it return?

One row per podcast that matches your filters:

• Podcast name, host or author, and the contact name and email published in the show's feed
• Where the email came from: the feed's owner email, its managing editor, or its description
• Website, Apple Podcasts link, RSS feed link, and cover art
• Genre, categories, language, and store country
• Episode count, latest episode date, and latest episode title
• Explicit flag, a short description, and the search term that found the show

Emails come only from what podcasters publish in their public feeds for listeners and directories. The Actor never guesses or verifies addresses.

How to use

1. Open the Actor and go to the Input tab.
2. Enter one or more Search terms, such as marketing or small business.
3. Pick the Country store to search, for example US or GB.
4. Optionally add Genres and Languages, and set Active within days and Minimum episodes to skip inactive or tiny shows.
5. Leave Only shows with a contact email on to get only shows you can email.
6. Click Start, then open the Output tab to view, filter, or download the leads as CSV, Excel, JSON, or HTML.
7. To grow a list over time, turn on New podcasts only, give it a Monitor name, and add a weekly schedule under Schedules.

No API key or account with Apple or any podcast service is needed.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
searchTerms	array	marketing	Topics to search Apple Podcasts for, up to 20. A show found by two terms is delivered once.
country	string	us	Two-letter Apple Podcasts store code, such as us, gb, ca, or au.
genres	array	all	Keep only shows whose genre contains one of these words, such as business or health.
languages	array	all	Keep only shows in these two-letter language codes, such as en or es.
activeWithinDays	integer	90	Keep only shows with an episode in this many days. 0 keeps every show.
minEpisodes	integer	0	Keep only shows with at least this many episodes.
requireEmail	boolean	true	Deliver only shows whose feed lists a contact email.
includeExplicit	boolean	true	Turn off to leave out shows marked explicit.
onlyNewPodcasts	boolean	false	Skip shows that an earlier run with the same monitor name already delivered, free of charge.
monitorName	string	default	Keeps a separate memory of delivered shows per name.
maxPodcastsPerTerm	integer	100	Apple Podcasts results to check per term, up to 200.
maxResults	integer	200	Stop after this many podcast leads, up to 10,000.

Example input for a weekly list of active English business and marketing shows with at least 20 episodes:

{
  "searchTerms": ["marketing", "entrepreneurship", "small business"],
  "country": "us",
  "genres": ["business", "marketing"],
  "languages": ["en"],
  "activeWithinDays": 30,
  "minEpisodes": 20,
  "onlyNewPodcasts": true,
  "monitorName": "business-guest-pitches",
  "maxResults": 500
}

Output

Each lead looks like this (a fictional example):

{
  "podcastName": "Brightleaf Growth Show",
  "hostName": "Brightleaf Media",
  "contactName": "Brightleaf Media",
  "contactEmail": "hello@brightleaf.example",
  "emailSource": "itunes:owner",
  "website": "https://brightleaf.example/podcast",
  "applePodcastsUrl": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brightleaf-growth-show/id900000001",
  "feedUrl": "https://feeds.brightleaf.example/show.xml",
  "applePodcastId": "900000001",
  "primaryGenre": "Marketing",
  "categories": ["Marketing", "Business", "Education"],
  "language": "en-us",
  "country": "USA",
  "episodeCount": 120,
  "latestEpisodeDate": "2026-11-02",
  "latestEpisodeTitle": "Episode 120: Pricing your first product",
  "explicit": false,
  "description": "Weekly interviews with founders about marketing.",
  "artworkUrl": "https://images.brightleaf.example/cover-600.jpg",
  "searchTerm": "marketing",
  "checkedAt": "2026-11-03T14:05:12Z",
  "note": null
}

Fields a feed does not publish are null. When a run finds nothing to deliver, for example because every show was already delivered or none matched, it adds one free row with only checkedAt and a note explaining why.

Every run also saves a free RUN_SUMMARY record in the default key-value store with the terms searched, shows listed and filtered, feeds read and any that failed with a sample reason, shows skipped as already delivered, leads published per term, and why the run ended.

New podcasts only

With New podcasts only on, the Actor remembers every show it delivers in a named key-value store called podcast-outreach-leads-monitor, under the monitor name you choose. Later runs with the same monitor name skip those shows before reading their feeds and do not charge for them, so a weekly schedule only adds new shows to your list. A show that failed a filter is not remembered, so it can still be delivered once it qualifies.

How it works

The Actor searches the public Apple Podcasts directory for each term, applies the genre, activity, episode, and explicit filters, and then reads each remaining show's public RSS feed a few at a time to get the contact email, website, language, and latest episode. Only the start of each feed is read, where the show details live, so long feeds stay quick. Searches are spaced to respect Apple's rate limit, and every request identifies the Actor with a contact address. A feed that cannot be read is counted in the summary while the other shows still deliver.

Pricing

This Actor uses pay per event pricing: $1.50 per 1,000 podcast leads, charged as the podcast-lead event for each lead delivered, plus a tiny Actor start fee. Run notes, the summary, shows that fail a filter, and shows skipped by New podcasts only are free. Set Max podcast leads to cap what a run can cost.

API and integrations

You can start the Actor and read its results from your own code with the Apify API, the Apify Python and JavaScript clients, or the Apify CLI. Copy ready-made calls from the API tab on the Actor page.

Send new leads to a CRM, Google Sheets, HubSpot, Slack, Zapier, Make, or a webhook from the Integrations tab, for example to add every new show in your niche to an outreach sequence.

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• Career Site Job Search: open jobs from company career sites.

Is it legal to collect podcast contact details?

The Actor reads only public data: the Apple Podcasts search results and the RSS feeds that podcasters publish so listeners and directories can find them, including the contact email they choose to list. It does not log in, bypass any limit, or guess addresses. You are responsible for how you use the leads, including following anti-spam and privacy laws such as CAN-SPAM in the US and the GDPR in the EU and UK. Send relevant, personal pitches, say who you are, and honor opt-out requests. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple.

FAQ

Do I need an API key? No. The Actor uses public data only, so there is nothing to sign up for beyond Apify.

Why do some shows have no email? Not every podcaster lists one in the feed. With Only shows with a contact email on, those shows are skipped for free. Turn it off to get them with their website, then try Website Contact Enrichment.

Why did a run return fewer leads than I asked for? Apple returns at most 200 shows per search term, and filters such as the contact email and recent activity remove some. Add more search terms or loosen filters to get more. The RUN_SUMMARY record shows how many shows each filter removed.

Is the email the host's personal address? It is whatever address the podcaster published in the feed, often a booking or business address. Use it for relevant outreach only.

Can I search other directories or add fields? Yes, see below.

Feedback and custom requests

Found a bug or a feed the Actor reads wrongly? Open an issue on the Issues tab and it will be fixed quickly. For another directory, extra fields, or a custom request such as a different filter or output, open an issue as well.