Podcast Scraper – Apple/iTunes, RSS, Reviews & Contacts

Turn the world's podcasts into structured data. Search Apple Podcasts (or paste RSS feeds) and get every show's metadata, full episode list with audio URLs, star ratings & written reviews, Apple chart rank, and the show owner's contact email — as JSON, CSV or Excel. AI-ready markdown + token counts included. Free APIs, no proxy needed.

💵 Pricing

Pay per result — from $0.01 per podcast (1 dataset item = 1 podcast, with nested episodes & reviews). No subscription, no proxy cost. You only pay for the podcasts you actually scrape. New Apify accounts include free monthly usage credits, so you can test it for $0.

🎧 What can the Podcast Scraper extract?

• Show data — title, author, description (+ AI-ready markdown), artwork, genres, country, language, episode count.
• 📧 Owner contact email — pulled from the RSS feed (<itunes:owner>). Perfect for sponsorship & ad outreach.
• ⭐ Ratings & reviews — Apple Podcasts star ratings and full review text.
• 📈 Apple charts — Top Podcasts by country & genre, with rank.
• Episodes — title, audio file URL, duration, publish date, episode/season numbers, GUID, image, Podcasting 2.0 transcript/chapters.

🚀 How do I use the Podcast Scraper?

1. Click Try for free.
2. Pick a mode: search (keyword), rss (feed URLs), lookup (iTunes IDs) or charts.
3. Enter your query (e.g. true crime) and optionally enable ratings & reviews.
4. Click Start → download results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull them via the API.

⚙️ Input example

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "lex fridman",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "includeEpisodes": true,
  "includeReviews": true
}

📦 Output example

{
  "title": "Lex Fridman Podcast",
  "author": "Lex Fridman",
  "primary_genre": "Technology",
  "owner_email": "lexfridman@gmail.com",
  "feed_url": "https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/",
  "episode_count": 498,
  "episodes": [
    { "title": "#400 – …", "audio_url": "https://…/ep.mp3", "duration_seconds": 10912, "token_count": 849 }
  ],
  "reviews": [
    { "author": "Algo Rhythm", "rating": 5, "title": "Amazing Podcast!", "text": "…" }
  ]
}

🎯 Use cases

• Podcast ad & sponsorship sales — build a contact database from owner emails + chart rank.
• Market & competitor research — track shows, genres, ratings and release cadence.
• AI / RAG pipelines — clean markdown show notes & episode text with token counts.
• Media monitoring — watch reviews and new episodes on a schedule.

💰 How much will it cost?

The data sources (Apple iTunes API + RSS) are free and unmetered — there is no proxy cost. You pay only the per-result price:

Podcasts scraped	Approx. cost
100	~$1
1,000	~$10
10,000	~$100
Episodes and reviews are nested inside each podcast item, so they don't add extra billable results.

🆚 Comparison

	This actor	Typical podcast scraper
Owner contact email	✅	❌
Ratings + review text	✅	❌
Apple charts	✅	❌
AI markdown + token counts	✅	❌
Proxy required	❌ none	sometimes

🔗 Related actors

• App Store Scraper — apps, ratings & reviews
• iTunes Store Scraper — music, movies, ebooks
• YouTube Transcript Scraper — video captions
• Newsletter Scraper — Substack, Beehiiv, Ghost

❓ FAQ

Do I need a proxy or API key? No. Apple's APIs and RSS feeds are open. Where does the owner email come from? The public <itunes:owner> field in the RSS feed. Does it cover Spotify? It uses Apple/iTunes + RSS — the universal source every podcast publishes to.

🛟 Support

Found an issue or need a field added? Open an issue on the actor and it'll be fixed quickly. Suggestions for new modes are welcome.

Legal & privacy

Collects publicly available podcast data, including the public owner contact email published in RSS feeds. Use contact data in line with GDPR/CAN-SPAM and Apple's terms.

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