Apple Podcasts Scraper – Shows, Episodes & Search

Find podcasts on Apple Podcasts by topic or name, or fetch them by ID/URL. You get the show data and its latest episodes in one result: title, date, duration, description and audio URL. The data comes from Apple's official iTunes Search API.

$1.50 per 1,000 podcasts, episodes included. You only pay for podcasts returned.

What you get for each podcast

Field	Example
title, author, podcastId, url	The Daily · The New York Times · 1200361736
feedUrl	RSS feed of the show
primaryGenre, genres, explicit, contentRating	News · Daily News
episodeCount, latestEpisodeDate	2,741 episodes
artwork	600 × 600 cover image
episodes[]	title, releaseDate, durationSeconds, description, audioUrl, url, guid (newest first, up to 200)
searchTerm, searchPosition, country, scrapedAt	run context

Use cases

• Podcast guest booking and PR: find active shows for your topic and check when they last published.
• Market research: see which podcasts exist in a niche, how many episodes they have and how often they publish.
• Content and AI pipelines: collect episode titles, descriptions and audio URLs, for example to transcribe them.
• Monitoring: schedule runs to track new episodes of shows you follow.

How to use

{
  "searchTerms": ["artificial intelligence"],
  "podcasts": ["https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736"],
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 20,
  "includeEpisodes": true,
  "maxEpisodesPerPodcast": 20,
  "country": "us"
}

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.0015 per podcast returned ($1.50 per 1,000), including up to 200 episodes each. Platform usage is included.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor works as a tool for AI assistants and agents – Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, n8n and other MCP clients – through Apify's hosted MCP server. Add this server URL to your client:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=stevenkramp/apple-podcasts-scraper

Sign in with your Apify account when asked. Your agent can then call the Actor in plain language, for example: "Find 20 active podcasts about real estate investing and list their latest episode dates." Runs started by your agent are normal Actor runs on your Apify account at the same pay-per-event price.

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FAQ

Contact e-mails? Not included. We return public show and episode data only, and no e-mail addresses.

Rate limits? Apple's API allows about 20 requests per minute. The Actor respects this. Each podcast with episodes needs one request, so 100 podcasts take about 5 minutes.

Something broken? Open an issue in the Issues tab. We fix problems quickly.