Podcast Charts Tracker: Apple Ranks by Country & Genre
Pricing
Pay per usage
Podcast Charts Tracker: Apple Ranks by Country & Genre
Apple Podcasts top charts for any country and genre, up to 200 ranks per chart, from Apple's official feeds. Scheduled runs add rank movement: previous rank, change, new entries, drop-offs per show. For podcasters, agencies and sponsors. Keyless.
Apple Podcasts charts are the scoreboard of podcasting, and they are different in every country and genre. This actor pulls them straight from Apple's official chart feeds: any country, any genre, up to 200 ranks per chart, one run. Schedule it and every run also tells you what moved: previous rank, change, new entries, drop-offs. No login, no API key, no subscription.
Since Chartable shut down, rank tracking tools charge $19 to $160 a month. Here you pay per row and the first rows of every run are free.
What you get
One row per ranked podcast per chart:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
country, genre | Which chart this row is from |
rank | Current chart position |
previousRank, rankChange, isNew | Movement versus your previous run (with "Compare with previous run" on) |
droppedOff | For tracked shows that left the chart |
podcastId | Apple podcast id (joinable with lookup APIs and RSS feeds) |
name, publisher | Show and publisher |
categoryName, summary | Genre label and show description |
podcastUrl, artworkUrl | Apple Podcasts page and cover art |
checkedAt | Timestamp |
Input
- Countries: any Apple storefront codes (
us, gb, de, in, br, jp, au, ng, ke, ...) - Genres: overall chart plus 19 genres (Business, Comedy, News, True Crime, Technology, ...)
- Chart depth: up to 200 ranks per chart
- Track only these podcasts: give your show ids and get only their rows; shows absent from a chart return a free
rank: nullrow, so "not charting" costs nothing - Compare with previous run: keeps rank history between runs for movement fields
2 countries x 3 genres x top 100 = 600 rows in a single run.
Pricing
Pay per result: $0.003 per chart row. First 2 rows of every run are free. Tracked shows missing from a chart are always free rows.
Watching your own show across 10 countries daily costs at most $0.03 a day. A full daily top-100 sweep of one country's 20 charts is $6 a month.
Typical uses
- Podcasters: track your show's rank across every country you care about, daily, with movement.
- Agencies and networks: client reporting without a $160/month analytics seat.
- Sponsors and advertisers: spot rising shows in a genre before their rate card catches up.
- Guest booking and PR: pair with the Podcast Host Leads actor — this one tells you which shows are hot, that one turns show lists into host contact emails.
- Media and newsletters: chart movement stories per market.
Scheduling
Run it daily on an Apify schedule with "Compare with previous run" on. Rank history is kept per chart in a named key-value store, so movement fields are computed automatically. Consume rows via the API, webhooks, or the Google Sheets integration.
Data notes
Data comes from Apple's official public chart feeds and reflects chart state at run time. Apple refreshes charts throughout the day; movement fields compare against your own previous run, so a stable schedule gives the cleanest deltas.
