# Spotify Podcast Episodes Scraper (`seemuapps/spotify-podcast-scraper`) Actor

Extract every episode from any public Spotify podcast. Get title, description, publish date, duration, audio preview URL, and cover art with pagination across runs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/seemuapps/spotify-podcast-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Andrew](https://apify.com/seemuapps) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Lead generation, Agents
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Spotify Podcast Episodes Scraper

Extract every episode from any public Spotify podcast. Get title, description, publish date, duration, audio preview URL, and cover art with pagination across runs.

### What you get

For every episode on the show, one dataset row with:

- **episodeId, url** — Spotify episode ID and canonical episode URL
- **title** — episode title
- **description** — full episode description text
- **publishDate** — release date (`YYYY-MM-DD` when day-precision, full ISO timestamp otherwise)
- **durationMs** — episode length in milliseconds
- **durationFormatted** — human-readable length (`1:23:45` or `42:30`)
- **audioPreviewUrl** — direct MP3 preview clip URL (when Spotify exposes one)
- **imageUrl** — highest-resolution episode cover art
- **explicit** — true if marked explicit
- **showName, showId** — parent show identity
- **scrapedAt** — ISO timestamp of when the run captured this row

Plus a `SHOW_INFO` record in the default key-value store with: `showId`, `showName`, `publisher`, `description`, `totalEpisodes`, `imageUrl`, `mediaType`, `explicit`, `languages`, `copyrights`.

### Use cases

- **Podcast research and analytics** — pull a full episode catalog into a spreadsheet to study release cadence and topic mix
- **Competitor analysis** — benchmark a podcast against rivals by total episodes, average duration, and publishing frequency
- **Content discovery and search** — build a searchable index of episode titles and descriptions for a show
- **Audio archival** — capture every episode preview URL and cover art before a show is delisted
- **Lead generation for podcast outreach** — surface guest names and topics from episode titles for booking pitches

### How to use

1. Paste a Spotify show URL or 22-character show ID into **Spotify Show URL or ID** — `https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk` or just `4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk` both work
2. Set **Max Items** (default 100) — how many episodes to fetch in this run; set 0 for unlimited (capped at 5000 per run as a safety net)
3. Leave **Page ID** blank on the first run
4. Run the actor — episodes appear in the **Dataset** tab in newest-first order, and show-level metadata lands in the **Key-value store** as `SHOW_INFO`
5. To fetch the next page, open the **Key-value store** tab → copy the `NEXT_PAGE_ID` value → paste it into **Page ID** on your next run. If `NEXT_PAGE_ID` is `null`, you've fetched the entire show.

### Output format

Each dataset record:

```json
{
  "episodeId": "7lPfDiR4NVRtpHeMM8rfA4",
  "url": "https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lPfDiR4NVRtpHeMM8rfA4",
  "title": "#2505 - Tom Segura",
  "description": "Tom Segura is a comedian, actor, author, and restaurateur...",
  "publishDate": "2026-05-25",
  "durationMs": 9868671,
  "durationFormatted": "2:44:29",
  "audioPreviewUrl": "https://p.scdn.co/mp3-preview/32c257d827d51de30fcc855424937065bd8a78b0.mp3",
  "imageUrl": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8aa3d019095ecf0a946d8d8d9c",
  "explicit": true,
  "showName": "The Joe Rogan Experience",
  "showId": "4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-27T12:00:00.000Z"
}
````

`SHOW_INFO` in the key-value store:

```json
{
  "showId": "4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk",
  "showName": "The Joe Rogan Experience",
  "publisher": "Joe Rogan",
  "description": "The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.",
  "totalEpisodes": 2697,
  "imageUrl": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8a48c4e5dee3559c8c586e14ae",
  "mediaType": "MIXED",
  "explicit": true,
  "languages": [],
  "copyrights": []
}
```

### Notes & limits

- **One show per run.** For multiple shows, run the actor once per show — each gets its own dataset, `SHOW_INFO`, and cursor.
- **Newest-first order.** Episodes are listed in Spotify's default order — most recent episodes first.
- **Geo-restricted episodes are still listed.** When Spotify hides an episode in your region, the row keeps `episodeId` and `url` but other fields are `null`. This preserves indexing even when metadata is locked.
- **Audio preview, not full episodes.** Spotify only exposes ~30s MP3 previews to public clients. Full episode audio requires a logged-in Spotify session and is not available here.
- **Pagination is offset-based.** `NEXT_PAGE_ID` is the absolute offset of the next episode to fetch (e.g. `50` after the first page). Long shows can have thousands of episodes — chain runs to fetch them all.
- **Wall-clock safety:** the actor stops ~60s before the platform timeout and writes `NEXT_PAGE_ID` so progress is never lost on long runs.

# Actor input Schema

## `show` (type: `string`):

Either the full Spotify show URL (e.g. 'https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk') or the 22-character base62 show ID (e.g. '4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk'). The ID will be extracted automatically.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum episodes to return in this run. Set 0 for unlimited. The actor will auto-paginate within the run until done or the run is about to time out.

## `pageId` (type: `string`):

Paste NEXT\_PAGE\_ID from the previous run's Key-value store to resume from where the last run stopped. Leave empty to start from the most recent episode.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "show": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk",
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One episode per record. Fields: episodeId, url, title, description, publishDate, durationMs, durationFormatted, audioPreviewUrl, imageUrl, explicit, showName, showId, scrapedAt.

## `showInfo` (type: `string`):

SHOW\_INFO record in the default key-value store. Contains showId, showName, publisher, description, totalEpisodes, imageUrl, mediaType, explicit, languages, copyrights.

## `nextPageId` (type: `string`):

NEXT\_PAGE\_ID record in the default key-value store. Paste into Page ID on the next run to resume; null when the show has been fully listed.

# 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 = {
    "show": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("seemuapps/spotify-podcast-scraper").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 = { "show": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("seemuapps/spotify-podcast-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "show": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk"
}' |
apify call seemuapps/spotify-podcast-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=seemuapps/spotify-podcast-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Spotify Podcast Episodes Scraper",
        "description": "Extract every episode from any public Spotify podcast. Get title, description, publish date, duration, audio preview URL, and cover art with pagination across runs.",
        "version": "1.0",
        "x-build-id": "rUD0bzhyVdIN6pFnn"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/seemuapps~spotify-podcast-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-seemuapps-spotify-podcast-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/seemuapps~spotify-podcast-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-seemuapps-spotify-podcast-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/seemuapps~spotify-podcast-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-seemuapps-spotify-podcast-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "show"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "show": {
                        "title": "Spotify Show URL or ID",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Either the full Spotify show URL (e.g. 'https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk') or the 22-character base62 show ID (e.g. '4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk'). The ID will be extracted automatically."
                    },
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "Max Items",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum episodes to return in this run. Set 0 for unlimited. The actor will auto-paginate within the run until done or the run is about to time out.",
                        "default": 100
                    },
                    "pageId": {
                        "title": "Page ID (pagination)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Paste NEXT_PAGE_ID from the previous run's Key-value store to resume from where the last run stopped. Leave empty to start from the most recent episode."
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```