Podcast Episodes and Published Transcripts from RSS

This podcast scraper pulls rss podcast episode lists and any published podcast transcript.

Paste a public RSS feed URL, or an Apple Podcasts show URL. Each episode becomes one row: title, date, duration, audio URL, show notes text, and the transcript when the feed itself publishes a podcast:transcript tag. There is no speech-to-text in this version.

Input

Field	What it does
RSS feeds or Apple Podcasts show URLs	One or more public feed URLs, or an Apple show page such as https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736. An Apple show URL is resolved through Apple's public lookup endpoint to the publisher's feedUrl. Episode pages on Apple are not read.
Maximum rows	Hard ceiling on rows returned, and therefore on the cost of the run. Default 50, maximum 10,000.
Download published transcripts	On by default. When a feed names a public transcript file, that file is fetched and the text is put on the row. Off keeps the transcript URL only.
Proxy configuration	Optional Apify proxy. Off by default, including on a local run.

Pricing

Pay per result. $0.002 per row. No start fee.

Every dataset row bills from row one, including an error row for a URL that 404s or is blocked. A run that returns no rows costs nothing. Maximum rows is the spend cap.

Output (one row per episode)

One example row from a real local run on 2026-09-20 against https://podnews.net/rss (transcript and show notes shortened here):

{
  "error": false,
  "input_url": "https://podnews.net/rss",
  "feed_url": "https://podnews.net/rss",
  "show_title": "Podnews Daily - podcast industry and podcasting news",
  "show_author": "Podnews LLC",
  "episode_guid": "https://podnews.net/update/podcasts-front-of-store",
  "title": "Are podcasts at the front of the store?",
  "date": "2026-09-18T10:52:28Z",
  "date_raw": "Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:52:28 +0000",
  "duration": "306",
  "duration_seconds": 306,
  "audio_url": "https://op3.dev/e,pg=9b024349-ccf0-5f69-a609-6b82873eab3c/podnews.net/audio/podnews260918.mp3",
  "audio_type": "audio/mpeg",
  "audio_bytes": 4919999,
  "episode_url": "https://podnews.net/update/podcasts-front-of-store",
  "show_notes": "Sponsored by The Podglomerate . From first recording to final export. ... Are podcasts at the front of the store? Showing a preview of data from the upcoming Podcast Landscape 2026 study at Podcast Movement NYC...",
  "transcript": "From Manhattan in New York City, the latest from podnews.net with the Podglomerate. Are podcasts at the front of the store? ...",
  "transcript_url": "https://podnews.net/audio/podnews260918.mp3.vtt",
  "transcript_type": "text/vtt",
  "transcript_language": null,
  "source_url": "https://podnews.net/rss",
  "fetched_at": "2026-09-20T21:48:48Z"
}

Field	What it holds
title	Episode title from the feed
date	Publish time in UTC when it could be parsed; otherwise the raw string
date_raw	pubDate (or Atom equivalent) exactly as published
duration	itunes:duration as published (306 or 00:34:48)
duration_seconds	Same duration as an integer number of seconds, when parseable
audio_url	Enclosure URL for the audio file. The file itself is not downloaded.
audio_type / audio_bytes	Enclosure type and byte length, when published
show_notes	Episode description / content, HTML stripped to text
transcript	Text of a published transcript file, or null
transcript_url / transcript_type	The podcast:transcript URL and MIME type, when present
show_title / show_author	Public names from the feed channel
episode_url / episode_guid	Episode link and guid, when published
input_url / feed_url	What you pasted, and the RSS URL actually read
error	true only on a failed URL (missing feed, block, not XML)
fetched_at	When this run read the feed, in UTC

What this does not do

• It does not transcribe audio. If the feed has no podcast:transcript tag, transcript is null.
• It does not download or host the audio file. audio_url is the publisher's link.
• It does not scrape Apple Podcasts episode pages or artwork. Apple show URLs are resolved only through the public lookup JSON.
• It does not invent missing fields. Unreadable values are null.
• It does not grant a licence to republish a show. You supply the URLs; each publisher's terms still apply.
• It does not log in, solve a CAPTCHA, or use cookies.

Limits

• maxItems is 1–10,000 (default 50). The run stops there even if the feed is longer.
• Apple's lookup endpoint is documented at about 20 calls per minute. Many Apple show URLs in one run will be slow on purpose.
• A 404 or block on one URL becomes one error row for that URL; other URLs in the same run still run.
• Email addresses and phone-number-shaped strings found in notes or transcripts are replaced with [redacted].

Refunds and support

Refunds: if a run returns zero rows for a valid input, email operations@ustechautomations.com within 7 days and we refund that run. Support: same address, replies within 2 business days.