# Transcribe the latest podcast episodes from an RSS feed

**Use case:** 

Give a podcast RSS feed (here NPR News Now, a five-minute hourly newscast) and get the newest episode transcribed with Whisper: full text, timestamped segments and paragraphs, episode title and publish date, plus SRT and VTT subtitle files. Add Apple Podcasts links or more feeds, raise the episode count, or schedule it to transcribe only new episodes.

## Input

```json
{
  "urls": [],
  "podcastFeeds": [
    "https://feeds.npr.org/500005/podcast.xml"
  ],
  "maxEpisodesPerFeed": 1,
  "usePublisherTranscripts": true,
  "language": "en",
  "saveSubtitles": true,
  "summarize": false,
  "speakerLabels": false,
  "wordTimestamps": false,
  "subtitleLanguages": [],
  "maxTotalMinutes": 8,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "fileConcurrency": 3,
  "fileTimeoutSecs": 1800,
  "newEpisodesOnly": false,
  "backfillOlderEpisodes": false
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "input": {
    "label": "Input"
  },
  "inputIndex": {
    "label": "Input index"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "Audio",
    "format": "link"
  },
  "mediaUrl": {
    "label": "Media found on page",
    "format": "link"
  },
  "episodeTitle": {
    "label": "Episode"
  },
  "success": {
    "label": "Success"
  },
  "transcriptSource": {
    "label": "Source"
  },
  "language": {
    "label": "Language"
  },
  "durationSeconds": {
    "label": "Duration seconds"
  },
  "billedMinutes": {
    "label": "Billed min"
  },
  "wordCount": {
    "label": "Word count"
  },
  "speakers": {
    "label": "Speakers"
  },
  "text": {
    "label": "Text"
  },
  "summary": {
    "label": "Summary"
  },
  "srtUrl": {
    "label": "SRT",
    "format": "link"
  },
  "charged": {
    "label": "Charged"
  },
  "error": {
    "label": "Error"
  },
  "errorType": {
    "label": "Error type"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Audio & Video to Text - Speech to Text Transcription, SRT](https://apify.com/tidytools/audio-transcriber.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/tidytools/audio-transcriber.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

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 full API examples (JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP, OpenAPI), see this Task's Actor page: https://apify.com/tidytools/audio-transcriber.md

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`).