Apple Podcasts Top Charts by Country: top shows with RSS feed

The Apple Podcasts top chart per country, up to 100 shows per country and 50 countries per run: rank, show, publisher, RSS feed URL, genre, episode count and latest episode date, straight from Apple's own chart feed. Pay per ranked show.

Why this scraper

• Only delivered results are charged. Inputs that fail come back as clear error records at no cost.
• Apple's own chart, not a scraped page: the ranking comes from the feed Apple publishes for its marketing tools, the same list the Podcasts app shows, at two requests per country. Measured on the US and Dutch top 50: 100 of 100 shows enriched with feed URL, episode count, genre and latest episode date.
• The RSS feed URL on every ranked show, plus publisher, primary genre, all genres, episode count, latest episode date and explicit flag from Apple's lookup API. The feed URL is the key to the episodes; the RSS feed reader below reads them.

Who this is for

List the storefront codes in countries (two letters: us, gb, nl, de, jp; up to 50 per run) and set maxShowsPerCountry (default 50, ceiling 100, the most Apple publishes). Every row carries the country, rank, show id, title, publisher, RSS feed URL, genre, episode count, latest episode date, artwork and store link.

Who this is not for

Apple publishes one overall top chart per country with at most 100 shows; there are no per-genre charts in this feed. The chart is Apple's snapshot at run time and moves during the day, so two runs hours apart differ. A storefront code Apple does not operate comes back as one free COUNTRY_NOT_FOUND error row. publisher is empty for the rare show Apple lists without one.

Input example

{
    "countries": [
        "us",
        "nl"
    ],
    "maxShowsPerCountry": 50
}

Output example

• country
• rank
• podcastId
• title
• publisher
• feedUrl
• genre
• genres
• episodeCount
• latestEpisodeDate
• isExplicit
• artworkUrl
• url

Error codes: INVALID_COUNTRY, COUNTRY_NOT_FOUND, NO_SHOWS, BLOCKED.

One delivered row looks like this:

{
  "country": "NL",
  "rank": 1,
  "podcastId": "1513807137",
  "title": "Maarten van Rossem & Tom Jessen",
  "publisher": "Tom Jessen en Maarten van Rossem",
  "feedUrl": "https://anchor.fm/s/21c734c4/podcast/rss",
  "genre": "Nieuwscommentaar",
  "genres": [
    "Nieuwscommentaar",
    "Nieuws"
  ],
  "episodeCount": 1204,
  "latestEpisodeDate": "2026-09-15",
  "isExplicit": false,
  "artworkUrl": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts126/v4/f5/a6/6d/f5a66dbd-6faf-86b6-f43d-2457f288e3b3/mza_5767015447653460511.jpg/600x600bb.jpg",
  "url": "https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/maarten-van-rossem-tom-jessen/id1513807137",
  "status": "ok"
}

Related actors from steadydata

• apple-podcasts-search: find shows by keyword instead of by chart
• rss-feed-reader: the episodes of any show, read from its RSS feed URL
• app-store-top-charts: the same chart feed for apps

Pricing

Pay per event: one podcast-listed event per delivered result. No charge for inputs that fail, no separate platform-usage surcharge.

Free Apify plan: this actor delivers up to 25 rows per run for accounts on the Apify free plan, and then stops with a message. That limit is set by us, not by Apify. It exists so the actor keeps paying for itself for the people who do pay. Any paid Apify plan runs it at full size, billed per delivered row, with failed rows never charged.

Reviews: if this actor saves you time, a short review on this page is the one thing that helps most. Ratings are what other buyers look at first, and we have no other way to ask.

FAQ

Which countries work? Any Apple Podcasts storefront by its two-letter code: us, gb, ca, au, de, fr, nl, es, it, jp, br, mx and the rest. An unknown code costs nothing.

Can I get the episodes too? Not from this actor. Take the feedUrl and run it through the RSS and Atom Feed Reader from the related actors below; that gives every episode with title, date, summary and audio link.

Can I get the top 200? No. Apple publishes 10, 25, 50 or 100 per chart; maxShowsPerCountry cuts within that.

How fresh is the chart? It is read live at run time. Schedule the actor daily to build a ranking history per country.

Is episodeCount exact? It is the number of episodes Apple has indexed for the show; the feed itself may hold a few more or fewer.

Is personal data collected? The rank is Apple's position in the chart at run time; ties do not exist. latestEpisodeDate is the date of the most recent episode Apple has indexed, as an ISO date.

What happens when the source changes? Sources change from time to time; that is the nature of this work. The actor is monitored daily and fixed fast, and while it is broken you are not charged, because only delivered results cost anything.