iTunes Podcast Search Scraper
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iTunes Podcast Search Scraper
Search Apple Podcasts catalog and extract show metadata: title, host, artwork, RSS feed URL, primary genre, episode count, country, last release date, content advisory and ratings. Bypasses Apple's 100-result search cap to return up to 5,000 unique podcasts per keyword. Top Charts mode included.
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🎙️ iTunes Podcast Search Scraper
🚀 Search Apple Podcasts catalog and bypass the 100-result cap to pull up to 5,000 unique podcasts per keyword.
The iTunes Podcast Search Scraper searches the Apple Podcasts catalog and returns structured records for any podcast: title, host, artwork, RSS feed URL, primary genre, episode count, content advisory, country, and last release date.
Apple's stock search caps any single query at ~100 results. This Actor bypasses that limit with a keyword-expansion strategy that returns up to 5,000 unique podcasts per keyword while keeping every result relevant. A separate Top Charts mode pulls up to 200 of Apple's officially ranked podcasts per genre.
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Podcast networks, ad platforms, content marketers, journalists, audio researchers, recommendation engines | Podcast discovery, ad-target prospecting, niche-genre mapping, content trend research, RSS feed enrichment |
📋 What the iTunes Podcast Search Scraper does
Five filtering workflows in a single run:
- 🔍 Search by keyword. Match across title, host, description, and genres.
- 🚀 Bypass the 100-cap. Auto-expansion with a-z and 0-9 suffixes; relevance filtered, deduped.
- 📊 Top Charts mode. Skip query, pick a genre, pull up to 200 ranked podcasts.
- 🏷️ Genre filter. 17 Apple genres including News, Business, Technology, True Crime, Comedy.
- 🌍 Country filter. Switch iTunes store country (US, GB, DE, JP, BR, ES).
💡 Why it matters: clean, server-side filtering removes the parser-and-pagination work from your team and keeps your dataset fresh on every run.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: artist, artworkUrl, collectionId, country, feedUrl, lastReleaseDate, podcastUrl, primaryGenre, title, trackCount. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
🚀 How to use
- 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
- 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the iTunes Podcast Search Scraper page on the Apify Store.
- 🎯 Set input. Pick your filters and
maxItems. - 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
- 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.
⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.
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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Apple Inc., Apple Podcasts, or any podcast publisher. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data is collected.
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