Apple Podcasts Scraper: reviews, top charts and search with RSS feed URLs

Export Apple Podcasts customer reviews (stars, title, text, date, author, helpful votes, country store), the Top Podcasts chart of any country and podcast search results with artist, genres, episode count, latest episode date and the show's RSS feed URL. Uses Apple's own public feeds — no login, no API key, no browser.

Typical uses: read what listeners criticise about a competing show · track a show's ratings by country · find shows in a niche (keyword search) with their RSS feeds for outreach or analysis · daily chart snapshots for ranking history · sponsorship and ad-agency research.

Input

{ "podcasts": ["https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736"], "reviewCountries": ["us", "gb"], "maxReviewsPerPodcast": 100,
  "searchTerms": ["true crime"], "searchLimit": 10, "chartCountries": ["us", "de"], "chartLimit": 25 }

• podcasts: Apple Podcasts URLs or numeric IDs. searchTerms: keyword search. chartCountries: two-letter codes.
• reviewCountries: every country store has its own reviews. Apple publishes the 500 most recent reviews per podcast and country.
• minRating / maxRating / sinceDate: e.g. 1–2 stars only, or only reviews since a date.
• reviewsForCharts: also read the reviews of every chart podcast.

Output (real run, 5 Nov 2026)

Review row:

{ "type": "review", "podcastId": "1200361736", "podcastName": "The Daily", "reviewCountry": "us", "reviewId": "14746491435", "rating": 5,
  "title": "REALLY Important resource", "text": "Sometimes I look at the story of the day …", "author": "NotaPollyana", "date": "2026-11-03T09:04:02-07:00", "helpfulVotes": 0, "totalVotes": 0 }

Podcast row: {"type":"podcast","name":"The Daily","artist":"The New York Times","genres":["Daily News","News"],"episodeCount":2770,"latestEpisodeAt":"2026-11-04T10:51:00Z","feedUrl":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/Sl5CSM3S"}. Chart row: {"type":"chart","chartCountry":"us","rank":1,"name":"The Daily","artist":"The New York Times","genres":["News"]}. Test run: 1 podcast by URL + search "true crime" (3 shows) + charts US and DE (10 each), up to 60 reviews per show and country (US, GB): 499 rows — 475 reviews, 20 chart rows, 4 podcast rows.

Price

Pay per result: $0.0003 per review (about $0.30 per 1,000) and $0.0005 per podcast or chart row; volume tiers are cheaper. A tiny start fee applies per run. Set a maximum cost per run; the run stops cleanly when it is reached.

Notes

• Reads only Apple's public JSON endpoints (Search/Lookup API, customer-review feed, Apple Marketing Tools chart feed). The Search API allows about 20 calls per minute, so the default pause is 1.5 s.
• Review authors are the public display names Apple shows next to reviews. Not affiliated with Apple.