Podcast Email Scraper - Host & Contact Finder

Podcast email scraper and host contact finder: discover podcasts by topic, then extract the host / business email, author, website, genre and show metadata straight from each show's RSS feed. Built for podcast guesting, sponsorship outreach, PR and B2B-to-creator lead generation.

Keywords: podcast email scraper, podcast host email, podcast contact finder, podcast outreach leads, sponsorship prospecting, podcast guesting, apple podcasts scraper.

Why the email hit-rate is near 100%

Discovery uses the keyless iTunes Search API (returns the RSS feedUrl + metadata). Apple mandates an owner email in every podcast RSS feed:

<itunes:owner><itunes:email>host@show.com</itunes:email><itunes:name>Host</itunes:name></itunes:owner>

so the host/business email is public and present for ~all shows. No login, no anti-bot, no residential proxy — the iTunes API and RSS feeds are open. Validated live: 6/6 shows returned a real host email on the first sample.

Input

field	meaning
searchTerms	topics/keywords to discover podcasts by
itunesIds / feedUrls	enrich specific shows directly
country	Apple storefront (US, GB, DE, …)
genre	keep only shows whose primary genre matches
maxPerTerm	shows per keyword (1–200)
minEpisodes	drop inactive shows below this episode count
requireEmail	only return (and charge for) shows with a host email
concurrency	feeds fetched in parallel (default 8)

Output (one item per podcast)

{
  "name": "The Personal Finance Podcast", "author": "Andrew Giancola",
  "ownerEmail": "giancola.andrew@gmail.com", "ownerName": "Andrew Giancola",
  "website": "https://mastermoney.co", "language": "en-us",
  "genre": "Investing", "genres": ["Business"], "episodeCount": 546,
  "itunesId": 1496681088, "itunesUrl": "https://podcasts.apple.com/...",
  "artworkUrl": "https://...", "lastReleaseDate": "2026-06-25T...", "sourceTerm": "personal finance"
}

Pricing (PAY_PER_EVENT)

event	suggested price	when
podcast-scraped	$0.03	every podcast returned (host email almost always included)

Single event keeps it simple — owner email is present for ~all shows. Undercuts ryanclinton ($0.05/podcast) while platform cost is tiny (no residential proxy), so margin is near-pure. Use requireEmail: true to only pay for shows that expose an email.

Run locally

mkdir -p storage/key_value_stores/default
cp .actor/input.example.json storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json
APIFY_LOCAL_STORAGE_DIR="$PWD/storage" \
  uv run --with apify --with "httpx[http2]" python -m src.main

Deploy

$apify push