🎙️ Podcast Scraper — Apple Podcasts, Top Charts, RSS & Episodes

Scrape podcasts and episodes in bulk: search Apple Podcasts by keyword, get the top charts of any country by category, or paste Apple Podcasts links or RSS feeds. For every show you get its details from Apple plus the RSS feed: owner email, website, language, categories, episode count, first and latest episode and how often it publishes. Episodes come with audio URL, duration, date, description, season/episode numbers and the transcript link when the podcaster publishes one.

$2 per 1,000 podcasts · $0.30 per 1,000 episodes. Errors are free. No API key, no login.

• ✅ Search Apple Podcasts in any country (up to 200 shows per keyword, in Apple's ranking order)
• ✅ Top charts by country and category: All, Business, Comedy, Education, News, Technology, True Crime, Sports, Health & Fitness… (up to 200)
• ✅ Any podcast: Apple Podcasts link, Apple ID or RSS feed URL (shows that aren't on Apple work too)
• ✅ Podcast details: title, author, owner name & email (as published in the feed), website, description, language, categories, explicit flag, artwork, Apple URL, feed URL, episode count, first/latest episode date, average days between episodes
• ✅ Episodes: title, publish date, duration in seconds, audio file URL, type and size, season & episode numbers, description, link, GUID, image and transcript URL (Podcasting 2.0)
• ✅ Filters: newest N episodes or only the last N days

Who uses it

• Podcast guest booking & PR — build lists of active shows in your niche with the owner's contact email and how often they publish.
• Advertisers & sponsors — find shows by category and country, check activity and episode length.
• Market research — track the top charts per country and category over time.
• AI & content teams — collect audio URLs and transcripts for summaries, clips, search and RAG.
• Podcast tools & directories — enrich your catalog with fresh episode data.

How to use it

1. Add search terms (marketing, true crime), pick top charts (with a country like us, gb, es, de), and/or paste podcast links or RSS feeds.
2. Choose whether to include episodes, how many per show, and an optional last N days filter.
3. Run and export to CSV, Excel or JSON, or schedule it to collect new episodes every day.

Input example

{
  "searchTerms": ["marketing"],
  "charts": ["technology", "business"],
  "country": "us",
  "chartSize": 50,
  "includeEpisodes": true,
  "maxEpisodesPerPodcast": 10
}

Output example

{
  "type": "podcast",
  "appleId": 1200361736,
  "title": "The Daily",
  "author": "The New York Times",
  "feedUrl": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/Sl5CSM3S",
  "appleUrl": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736",
  "genre": "Daily News",
  "episodeCount": 2755,
  "language": "en",
  "ownerEmail": "thedaily@nytimes.com",
  "firstEpisodeAt": "2021-10-24T10:00:00Z",
  "latestEpisodeAt": "2026-10-20T09:45:00Z",
  "avgDaysBetweenEpisodes": 4.3,
  "source": "podcast"
}

{
  "type": "episode",
  "podcast": "Buzzcast",
  "title": "Buzzsprout Gets A Dark Side",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-16T12:00:00Z",
  "durationSeconds": 797,
  "audioUrl": "https://op3.dev/e/https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.buzzsprout.com/231452/episodes/19972692-buzzsprout-gets-a-dark-side.mp3",
  "audioType": "audio/mpeg",
  "episode": 250,
  "season": null,
  "transcriptUrl": "https://www.buzzsprout.com/231452/19972692/transcript.vtt",
  "description": "…"
}

Pricing

• $0.002 per podcast ($2 per 1,000 shows)
• $0.0003 per episode ($0.30 per 1,000 episodes)

Higher Apify plans get an automatic discount, and you can set a maximum cost per run.

Tips

• Transcribe the episodes that have no transcript: send the audioUrl list to Audio & Video to Text — Whisper Speech to Text (it reads direct audio links, returns text, SRT and VTT).
• Combine several runs without duplicates using Merge, Filter, Deduplicate & Transform Datasets.

FAQ

Where does the owner email come from? From the podcast's public RSS feed (itunes:owner), where podcasters publish it so directories can contact them. Some hosts hide it — then the field is empty.

Does it include Apple ratings and reviews? No — Apple doesn't expose podcast ratings in its public APIs. You get the chart rank and Apple's search order.

Why does episodeCount differ from the number of episodes in the feed? episodeCount is Apple's number; feedEpisodes is how many the RSS feed currently lists (some hosts only keep the latest ones).

Spotify-only podcasts? If you have the show's RSS feed, paste it — most Spotify podcasts also publish one. Spotify itself isn't scraped.

Is it legal? The Actor reads Apple's public search/chart data and the RSS feeds podcasters publish for distribution. Respect the creators' rights and privacy laws when you reuse the data.

Something doesn't work? Open an issue in the Issues tab with the show — we answer fast.