# Apple Podcasts Scraper – Shows, Episodes & Search (`stevenkramp/apple-podcasts-scraper`) Actor

Find podcasts on Apple Podcasts by search term or ID/URL via Apple's official API: title, author, genres, episode count, RSS feed URL, artwork, plus the latest episodes with date, duration, description and audio URL. Pay only per podcast returned.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/stevenkramp/apple-podcasts-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Steven Kramp](https://apify.com/stevenkramp) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 podcasts

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/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.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

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 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

```json
{
  "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.

### More from stevenkramp

Other Actors by the same developer – same quality standards, pay only for results:

**Search & trends**

- [Google Trends Scraper](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/google-trends-scraper) – interest over time, regions, rising queries
- [Keyword Trends Finder](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/keyword-trends-finder) – keyword ideas with trend direction
- [Google News Scraper](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/google-news-scraper) – news articles with real URLs
- [Google Images Scraper](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/google-images-scraper) – full-size image URLs
- [Google Shopping Scraper](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/google-shopping-scraper) – prices and merchants
- [Google Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/google-jobs-scraper) – job listings

**Apps**

- [Google Play Store Scraper](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/google-play-store-scraper) – Android app data and rankings
- [Google Play Reviews Scraper](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/google-play-reviews-scraper) – Play Store reviews and ratings
- [Apple App Store Scraper](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/apple-app-store-scraper) – iPhone, iPad and Mac app data
- [Shopify App Store Scraper](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/shopify-app-store-scraper) – Shopify apps and pricing plans

**Research & media**

- [arXiv Papers Scraper](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/arxiv-papers-scraper) – research papers and abstracts

**Websites & places**

- [Website SEO Audit](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/website-seo-audit) – broken links, titles, sitemap
- [Germany Neighborhood Profile](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/germany-neighborhood-profile) – German neighborhood rents and vacancy

### 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.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Find podcasts by topic or name, e.g. "artificial intelligence", "true crime".

## `podcasts` (type: `array`):

Apple Podcasts IDs like 1200361736 or URLs like https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736.

## `maxResultsPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Up to 200. You only pay for podcasts returned.

## `includeEpisodes` (type: `boolean`):

Adds the latest episodes of each podcast: title, date, duration, description, audio URL.

## `maxEpisodesPerPodcast` (type: `integer`):

Newest first, up to 200. Included in the price per podcast.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter country code of the Apple Podcasts store, e.g. us, gb, de.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy is used by default. Usually no change needed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 20,
  "includeEpisodes": true,
  "maxEpisodesPerPodcast": 20,
  "country": "us",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `items` (type: `string`):

One item per podcast, with its latest episodes.

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

Key fields as a table.

# 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 = {
    "searchTerms": [
        "artificial intelligence"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("stevenkramp/apple-podcasts-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 = { "searchTerms": ["artificial intelligence"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("stevenkramp/apple-podcasts-scraper").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 '{
  "searchTerms": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ]
}' |
apify call stevenkramp/apple-podcasts-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/odfE9tJMHwa5WQFHw/builds/2UKzLvX5MrJkV8Lso/openapi.json