# Apple Podcasts Scraper - Reviews, Charts & Search (`thequietstack/apple-podcasts-reviews-charts`) Actor

Apple Podcasts data from Apple's public feeds: customer reviews (rating, title, text, date, country), top charts per country and podcast search with episode count, genre and RSS feed URL. No login. Pay per result.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/thequietstack/apple-podcasts-reviews-charts.md
- **Developed by:** [TheQuietStack](https://apify.com/thequietstack) (community)
- **Categories:** For creators, Marketing
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.21 / 1,000 reviews

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?

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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.
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# README

## 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

```json
{ "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:

```json
{ "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.

# Actor input Schema

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

Apple Podcasts URL (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736) or the numeric ID. Gets the podcast row and its reviews.

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

Find podcasts by keyword (e.g. 'true crime'). Their reviews are read too if maxReviewsPerPodcast > 0.

## `chartCountries` (type: `array`):

Two-letter country codes for the Top Podcasts chart, e.g. us, gb, de, fr.

## `chartLimit` (type: `integer`):

Entries per chart (max 100).

## `reviewsForCharts` (type: `boolean`):

Adds every chart podcast to the review run.

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

Country for search and lookup, and the default review country.

## `reviewCountries` (type: `array`):

Read reviews from these country stores (each store has its own reviews). Default: the store country.

## `maxReviewsPerPodcast` (type: `integer`):

Apple publishes the 500 most recent reviews per country. 0 = no reviews.

## `sinceDate` (type: `string`):

Stop at reviews older than this date.

## `minRating` (type: `integer`):

Skip reviews below.

## `maxRating` (type: `integer`):

Skip reviews above.

## `searchLimit` (type: `integer`):

Podcasts per search term.

## `includePodcastDetails` (type: `boolean`):

One row per podcast: artist, genres, episode count, latest episode date, RSS feed URL.

## `delayMs` (type: `integer`):

Apple's Search API allows about 20 calls per minute.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "podcasts": [
    "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736"
  ],
  "chartLimit": 25,
  "reviewsForCharts": false,
  "country": "us",
  "maxReviewsPerPodcast": 100,
  "minRating": 1,
  "maxRating": 5,
  "searchLimit": 10,
  "includePodcastDetails": true,
  "delayMs": 1500
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `apps` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (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 = {
    "podcasts": [
        "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("thequietstack/apple-podcasts-reviews-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 = { "podcasts": ["https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("thequietstack/apple-podcasts-reviews-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 '{
  "podcasts": [
    "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736"
  ]
}' |
apify call thequietstack/apple-podcasts-reviews-charts --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,thequietstack/apple-podcasts-reviews-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/Kp9tZphhsXnowwegI/builds/uE1b3o4hZx5ioUHXz/openapi.json