Apple Podcasts Scraper — Shows, Episodes, Charts & Reviews

Extract podcast data from Apple Podcasts, in any country: search shows by keyword, read the top charts by country and genre, look up shows by id or URL, list episodes straight from each show's RSS feed, and collect listener reviews. Plain HTTP requests, no browser, no login.

What you can do with it

• Market research: map every show in a niche, in any of 170+ storefronts
• Chart tracking: run daily on the top charts of a country and genre, and keep the rank history
• Lead lists for podcast advertising and PR: shows with artist, genre, episode count, latest release and website
• Episode feeds: new episodes with title, description, date, duration, audio URL, season and episode number
• Review monitoring: the newest listener reviews of your show or a competitor's

Features

• 🔎 Search: top shows for any keyword (up to 200), in several countries at once
• 🏆 Top charts: overall or by genre (19 genres), up to 200 shows per chart, with the chart rank on every show
• 📇 Show details: id, name, artist, RSS feed URL, genres, artwork, episode count, latest release date, explicit flag, content advisory rating, Apple link; with episodes on, also description, language and website
• 🎧 Episodes: read from the show's own RSS feed, newest first: title, description, published date, duration, audio URL and type, size, season, episode, episode type, explicit, GUID, link, image, chapters URL. Falls back to Apple's episode list if a feed is down
• 📅 Date filter: episodesSince and maxEpisodesPerShow keep daily monitoring cheap
• ⭐ Reviews: stars, title, text, date, helpful votes and reviewer nickname, most recent or most helpful, filtered by stars and date
• 🌍 Any storefront: us, gb, de, jp, br, au and more

Input example

{
  "searchTerms": ["true crime"],
  "maxShowsPerSearch": 20,
  "searchCountries": ["us", "gb"],
  "chartCountries": ["us"],
  "chartGenres": ["1487"],
  "maxShowsPerChart": 50,
  "maxEpisodesPerShow": 10,
  "episodesSince": "2026-09-01",
  "maxReviewsPerShow": 100
}

Output

The dataset holds three record types: show, episode and review. The Console shows each in its own view.

{
  "type": "show",
  "collectionId": "1200361736",
  "name": "The Daily",
  "artist": "The New York Times",
  "feedUrl": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/Sl5CSM3S",
  "primaryGenre": "Daily News",
  "genres": ["Daily News", "Podcasts", "News"],
  "country": "us",
  "episodeCount": 2733,
  "releaseDate": "2026-09-28T09:46:00+00:00",
  "latestEpisodeDate": "2026-09-28T09:46:25+00:00",
  "explicit": false,
  "contentAdvisoryRating": "Clean",
  "chartCountry": "us",
  "chartGenre": "all",
  "chartRank": 1,
  "url": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736"
}

{
  "type": "episode",
  "showId": "1200361736",
  "showName": "The Daily",
  "title": "He Was Deported to a Country He’d Never Heard Of",
  "published": "2026-09-28T09:46:25+00:00",
  "durationSeconds": 1636,
  "enclosureUrl": "https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/...",
  "enclosureType": "audio/mpeg",
  "episodeType": "full",
  "explicit": false,
  "guid": "bf6646a8-cdd6-4d87-92bd-6d088fe36dc3",
  "source": "rss"
}

{
  "type": "review",
  "reviewId": "14551680625",
  "showId": "1200361736",
  "score": 2,
  "title": "Overproduced and a bit patronising",
  "text": "I like the level of expertise but ...",
  "date": "2026-09-15T06:59:25+00:00",
  "voteCount": 0,
  "country": "gb"
}

Export results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or pull them via the Apify API, webhooks, Make, Zapier, n8n or MCP.

Pricing

Pay only for what you get: a small fee per run start, a fee per show, a small fee per episode and a small fee per review. Proxy costs are included.

FAQ

How many reviews can I get? Apple serves the latest 500 reviews per show, country and sort order. Run several countries for more; reviews are per storefront.

Does it download audio or transcripts? No. You get the audio URL from the feed, and nothing is downloaded.

Why is the episode list shorter than the episode count? Some hosts only publish recent episodes in the RSS feed.

Which genres can I chart? The 19 top-level Apple Podcasts genres are in the input list.

Is this legal? The Actor collects only publicly visible directory data, feeds and reviews, without logins. Reviews include the reviewer's public nickname unless you enable anonymizeReviewers. You are responsible for handling the data in line with applicable laws (such as GDPR) and Apple's terms.

Something broke? Open an issue on the Issues tab. We monitor the Actor daily and usually respond within 24 hours.