# Apple Podcasts Show Scraper 🎧🍏🚨 - Cheap (`scrapestorm/apple-podcasts-show-scraper---cheap`) Actor

🔍 Looking to explore podcasts by keyword on Apple Podcasts? With the Apple Podcasts Show Scraper 🍏🎧, you can extract show titles, artist names, genres, release dates, and more. Fast, simple, and ideal for podcast fans, researchers, marketers, and data analysts! 📊🎙️

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapestorm/apple-podcasts-show-scraper---cheap.md
- **Developed by:** [Storm_Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapestorm) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Social media, Videos
- **Stats:** 21 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $0.00005 / actor start

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Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

### Apple Podcasts Show Scraper 🎧🍏

The Apple Podcasts Show Scraper allows you to search and extract podcast show listings directly from Apple Podcasts. Whether you're researching comedy shows, news podcasts, or niche content, this tool helps you gather structured podcast data effortlessly.

Ideal for podcast researchers, content marketers, data analysts, or platform aggregators looking to automate podcast data collection from Apple Podcasts.

### 🔍 What You Can Extract

This scraper collects detailed podcast show information directly from Apple Podcasts, including:

📄 Fields Extracted by the Apple Podcasts Scraper

| Field                   | Description                                               |
| ----------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- |
| 🆔 **ID**               | Unique Apple Podcasts identifier for the show             |
| 📁 **Type**             | Type of item (usually "podcasts")                         |
| 🔗 **Href**             | Internal Apple Podcasts reference URL                     |
| 🎙️ **Name**            | Title of the podcast show                                 |
| 👤 **Artist Name**      | Name(s) of the podcast creator(s)                         |
| 📝 **Description**      | Full description or summary of the podcast                |
| 🧼 **Content Rating**   | Whether the content is "clean" or "explicit"              |
| ©️ **Copyright**        | Copyright notice of the podcast                           |
| 📅 **Release Date**     | Last release date of the podcast                          |
| 🌐 **Language Tag**     | Language/region of the podcast (e.g., "en-US")            |
| 📡 **Feed URL**         | Direct RSS feed URL (if available)                        |
| 🔗 **Subscription URL** | URL to subscribe via iTunes                               |
| 🔗 **Podcast URL**      | Main podcast page on Apple Podcasts                       |
| 🌍 **Website URL**      | Official website of the podcast                           |
| 🏷️ **Genres**          | List of genre names/categories                            |
| 🔢 **Track Count**      | Number of episodes published                              |
| ⏰ **Release Frequency** | How often the podcast is updated (e.g., Weekly, Biweekly) |
| 🖼️ **Artwork URL**     | Direct image URL to podcast artwork/cover                 |

### 🔢 How Many Podcasts Can I Scrape?

You control the number of podcast shows scraped using the maxitems input.

👉 The scraper supports up to 75 podcast shows per search query.

### Key Features ✨

- 🇺🇸 U.S. Market Focused Podcast Discovery

- 🧩 Structured JSON Output

- 🛠️ Search by Keyword

- 📥 Export to Excel, JSON, CSV, XML

- ⚡ Fast and Reliable Scraping

- 🔍 Genre, Language, and Popularity Targeting (via Apple Podcasts UI)

### 💸 Pricing

This scraper operates on a monthly subscription basis, priced at $19.49/month.

### 🔧 How to Use

Using the Apple Podcasts Scraper is simple:

```
🔑 Sign up for an account on Apify.

🌐 Go to the Apple Podcast Show Scraper page.

📝 Fill in your bulk keyword (e.g., "news", "health", "tech").

🔢 Set the maximum number of podcast shows you want to scrape (max 75).

▶️ Run the scraper.

📁 Download the results in your preferred format (JSON, Excel, CSV, XML, etc.).
```

### Example Input 📲 👌

Here’s an example of how to structure your input:

```
{
  "keyword": "comedy",
  "maxitems": 50
}


```

| Field      | Type     | Description                                          |
| ---------- | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| `keyword`  | `string` | Keyword to search for podcast shows (e.g., "Health") |
| `maxitems` | `number` | Max number of podcast shows to scrape (Max = 75)     |

### 📤 Example Output (JSON)

Here’s a sample of what a scraped podcast show might look like:

```
{
"id": "1352231546",
"type": "podcasts",
"href": "/v1/catalog/us/podcasts/1352231546?l=en-US",
"name": "Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America",
"artistName": "Adam Belz and Greg Velasquez",
"description": "An in-depth show about the U.S. men's national soccer team...",
"contentRating": "clean",
"copyright": "© 2018 Scuffed Podcast",
"releaseDateTime": "2025-07-28T21:29:00Z",
"languageTag": "en-US",
"feedUrl": "N/A",
"subscriptionUrl": "https://buy.itunes.apple.com/...",
"url": "https://podcasts.apple.com/.../id1352231546",
"websiteUrl": "http://scuffed.simplecast.fm",
"genreNames": ["Soccer", "Podcasts", "Sports"],
"trackCount": 600,
"releaseFrequency": "Updated Weekly",
"artwork_url": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/...jpg/{w}x{h}bb.{f}"
}

```

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### 🐍 Can I Use This API in Python?

Yes! You can use the Apify SDK with Python.

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Happy scraping! 😊

# Actor input Schema

## `keyword` (type: `array`):

One or more keywords to search for on Apple Podcasts Shows 🔍

## `maxitems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of shows to scrape per keyword 📊 Set how many shows to extract

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keyword": [
    "tech",
    "action"
  ],
  "maxitems": 60
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "keyword": [
        "tech",
        "action"
    ],
    "maxitems": 60
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapestorm/apple-podcasts-show-scraper---cheap").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "keyword": [
        "tech",
        "action",
    ],
    "maxitems": 60,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapestorm/apple-podcasts-show-scraper---cheap").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keyword": [
    "tech",
    "action"
  ],
  "maxitems": 60
}' |
apify call scrapestorm/apple-podcasts-show-scraper---cheap --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapestorm/apple-podcasts-show-scraper---cheap"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/qbcjAmqJO2A3eWaNe/builds/yQCbJmIBrUD8RZhpw/openapi.json