# Apple Podcasts Top Charts by Country: top shows with RSS feed (`steadydata/apple-podcasts-top-charts`) Actor

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.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/steadydata/apple-podcasts-top-charts.md
- **Developed by:** [Steadydata Team](https://apify.com/steadydata) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Business, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.65 / 1,000 podcast listeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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

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# README

## 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

```json
{
    "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:

```json
{
  "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](https://apify.com/steadydata/apple-podcasts-search): find shows by keyword instead of by chart
- [rss-feed-reader](https://apify.com/steadydata/rss-feed-reader): the episodes of any show, read from its RSS feed URL
- [app-store-top-charts](https://apify.com/steadydata/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.

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/steadydata/apple-podcasts-top-charts/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `countries` (type: `array`):

One per row, up to 50, as two-letter storefront codes: us, gb, nl, de, jp.

## `maxShowsPerCountry` (type: `integer`):

Cost ceiling per chart; Apple publishes at most 100.

## Actor input object example

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

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "countries": [
        "us",
        "nl"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("steadydata/apple-podcasts-top-charts").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 = { "countries": [
        "us",
        "nl",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("steadydata/apple-podcasts-top-charts").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 '{
  "countries": [
    "us",
    "nl"
  ]
}' |
apify call steadydata/apple-podcasts-top-charts --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,steadydata/apple-podcasts-top-charts"
        }
    }
}
```

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/FnNy74d2MB3xsBE3G/builds/d1hBpJ2Bdja2bhTVf/openapi.json