Podcast Leads Scraper: Host Emails, Ratings & Activity

Host emails, websites and social profiles, Apple ratings, publishing frequency, last-episode date and guest and sponsor signals for podcasts found by keyword, Apple top chart or URL, from Apple's public search API, each show's public RSS feed and its website, with no login or API key.

Try it: Click Start with the default input: 20 podcasts in 30 s for about $0.05 (run on October 21, 2026); 16 of the 20 came with a usable email, and the shows with no episode in the last 60 days were skipped for free.

Default input: search b2b marketing, US storefront, active within 60 days, 20 shows. Real rows from that run:

Show	Email	Apple rating	Frequency	Episodes	Last episode	Guest share
Stacking Growth | The B2B Marketing Podcast	teamtools@refinelabs.com	4.8 (29)	weekly	277	2026-09-21	0.33
Spotlight on B2B Marketing	hello@armstronglloyd.co.uk	5 (1)	every two weeks	46	2026-10-21	1
Breaking B2B - SaaS Marketing and B2B Marketing Podcast	samuelmdunning@gmail.com	4.8 (23)	weekly	505	2026-10-12	0.13
Social Media for B2B Growth: LinkedIn Strategy for B2B Marketing	support@b2bgrowthco.com	4.9 (19)	weekly	160	2026-10-15	0.17

Every row also carries the owner name, website and contact page, Instagram, X, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube links, the rating histogram, median days between episodes, average episode length, sponsor-mention share and the full list of emails with their source.

Pricing: $2.50 per 1,000 podcasts (primary event; $0.0025 per saved show). Shows removed by your filters, dead feeds and failed runs are not charged; platform usage is included.

More real examples (runs of October 13, 2026)

Input: {"searchTerms": ["b2b marketing"], "countries": ["us"], "activeWithinDays": 60, "maxPodcasts": 20}

The run took 33 seconds. It saved 20 shows, 16 of them with a usable email, and skipped 71 shows with no episode in the last 60 days for free. A few rows:

Show	Email	Apple rating	Frequency	Episodes	Last episode	Avg length	Guest share
Rattle & Pedal: B2B Marketing Podcast	jmlicki@rattleback.com	4.8 (23)	every two weeks	253	2026-09-25	36 min	0.43
Social Media for B2B Growth	support@b2bgrowthco.com	4.9 (19)	weekly	160	2026-10-05	25 min	0.17
Tiny Marketing: B2B Marketing for the Rule-Breakers	hello@sarahnoelblock.com	5.0 (2)	weekly	214	2026-10-11	27 min	0.50
B2B Marketing: Tomorrow's Best Practices... Today	hello@leadtail.com (from website)	5.0 (1)	monthly	64	2026-09-24	32 min	0.63
Stacking Growth, The B2B Marketing Podcast	teamtools@refinelabs.com	no ratings	weekly	277	2026-09-21	37 min	0.33

One full row as the actor returns it (description shortened):

{
  "name": "Rattle & Pedal: B2B Marketing Podcast",
  "author": "Jason Mlicki & Jeff McKay",
  "ownerName": "Jason Mlicki & Jeff McKay",
  "email": "jmlicki@rattleback.com",
  "hasEmail": true,
  "emails": [{ "email": "jmlicki@rattleback.com", "source": "rss-owner", "isPlatformAddress": false }],
  "website": "https://rattleandpedal.com/",
  "contactPageUrl": "https://rattleandpedal.com/contact-us/",
  "xUrl": "https://x.com/jeffmckay",
  "facebookUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/rattleback.agency",
  "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmlicki",
  "primaryGenre": "Marketing",
  "genres": ["Marketing", "Business", "Management"],
  "episodeCount": 253,
  "lastEpisodeDate": "2026-09-25T16:16:25+00:00",
  "daysSinceLastEpisode": 17.4,
  "publishingFrequency": "every two weeks",
  "medianDaysBetweenEpisodes": 14,
  "episodesLast90Days": 6,
  "avgEpisodeMinutes": 36.2,
  "firstEpisodeDate": "2018-05-06T19:26:45+00:00",
  "lastEpisodeTitle": "The Future of the Marketing Organization is Fractional with Casey Stanton",
  "language": "en-us",
  "country": "US",
  "appleRating": 4.8,
  "appleRatingCount": 23,
  "appleRatingHistogram": { "5": 21, "4": 1, "3": 0, "2": 1, "1": 0 },
  "guestEpisodeShare": 0.43,
  "sponsorMentionShare": 0,
  "acceptsGuestPitches": false,
  "mentionsSponsorship": false,
  "showType": "episodic",
  "appleId": 1386915358,
  "appleUrl": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1386915358",
  "feedUrl": "http://rattleandpedal.com/feed/podcast/",
  "source": "search:b2b marketing",
  "chartRank": null,
  "warnings": [],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-13T01:06:52+00:00"
}

Second example, from the same night. The US Entrepreneurship top chart (chartGenres: ["Entrepreneurship", "Marketing"], chartLimit: 15) returned 30 shows in 11 seconds, 24 of them with an email:

Rank	Show	Email	Rating	Frequency	Sponsor share
1	REAL AF with Andy Frisella	contact@andyfrisella.com	4.9 (32,809)	several times a week	0
3	Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha	youngandprofiting@gmail.com	4.7 (1,505)	several times a week	1.0
4	Proven Podcast	podcast@iamcharlesschwartz.com	4.4 (395)	every two weeks	0
9	Founder's Story	hello@ibhmedia.co	4.2 (235)	several times a week	0.97
10	the bossbabe podcast	operations@bossbabe.com	4.9 (2,109)	weekly	0.2

Three ways to find shows (combine freely)

1. Search terms (searchTerms): keyword search on Apple Podcasts. Apple returns up to 100 shows per term per country. Turn on expandSearch and each term is also searched with 10 variations ("saas podcast", "saas interviews" and so on), which reaches several hundred shows per term.
2. Top charts (chartGenres): Apple's top 200 per genre and country, with chartRank. You can use any Apple genre or subgenre by name ("Business", "Marketing", "Entrepreneurship", "Health & Fitness", "True Crime", "Technology", ...) or by ID. Use "All" for the overall chart.
3. Podcast URLs (podcastUrls): Apple Podcasts links, bare Apple IDs, or RSS feed URLs. Use this to enrich a list you already have.

Shows are de-duplicated across all sources by Apple ID and feed URL.

Filters (filtered shows are free)

Input	What it does
activeWithinDays	Keep shows whose latest episode came out in the last N days (for example 30 or 60). Dead shows are the biggest waste in outreach lists.
minEpisodes	Skip brand-new or tiny shows.
languages	Match the RSS language: en matches en-us and en-gb; pt-br, de, es and so on also work.
countries	Apple storefronts for search, charts and ratings (us, gb, ca, au, de, ...).
requireEmail	Only shows with a usable email. Hosting relay addresses such as podcasts60+…@anchor.fm do not count.
minAppleRatingCount	A rough audience-size filter.

Output fields

• Contact: email (best address), emails (every address with its source: rss-owner, website, rss-managingeditor, rss-description, episode-notes), ownerName, website, contactPageUrl, instagramUrl, xUrl, facebookUrl, linkedinUrl, youtubeUrl, tiktokUrl, socials (also Patreon and Threads), hosts (from podcast:person)
• Activity: episodeCount, lastEpisodeDate, daysSinceLastEpisode, publishingFrequency, medianDaysBetweenEpisodes, episodesLast90Days, avgEpisodeMinutes, firstEpisodeDate, lastEpisodeTitle
• Reach: appleRating, appleRatingCount, appleRatingHistogram, chartRank
• Outreach signals:
  • guestEpisodeShare: share of the latest 30 episodes that look like guest interviews
  • sponsorMentionShare: share of those episodes whose notes mention a sponsor, promo code or ad read
  • acceptsGuestPitches: the feed or website invites guest pitches
  • mentionsSponsorship: the feed or website invites advertisers
• Show: name, author, primaryGenre, genres, language, explicit, showType, description, hostingPlatform, appleId, appleUrl, feedUrl, artworkUrl, source, warnings, scrapedAt

The dataset has a Leads view (contact columns) and an Activity view. The CSV link in the run's Output tab exports the Leads view.

Pricing

Event	Price
Podcast lead (one saved show with all fields)	$0.0025 ($2.50 per 1,000)
Actor start	$0.00005

Platform usage is included. Shows that fail a filter, have a dead feed or are not found are not charged. Set a maximum charge per run in the run options and the actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

How the email is chosen

1. The itunes:owner email from the RSS feed. Podcasters publish it so Apple, Spotify and other directories can contact them.
2. Otherwise, an email found on the show's website, or on its contact page when the home page has none.
3. Otherwise, the feed's managingEditor or webMaster field, or an address in the show description.
4. Otherwise, an address that appears in at least two of the latest ten episodes' notes. Addresses mentioned only once are usually guests or sponsors and are left out.

Hosting-platform relay addresses (Spotify for Creators, Libsyn and so on) are listed in emails with isPlatformAddress: true but are never used as email. Social profiles follow the same rule: they come from the feed's channel fields, podcast:person, the website, or episode notes when the same profile appears in at least two episodes. Website-builder footers such as Squarespace's own Instagram are ignored.

Accuracy and limits

• Search depth: Apple's search API returns at most 100 shows per term and country. Use more terms, expandSearch, more countries or genre charts for bigger lists.
• Episode count: for feeds larger than 2.5 MB (shows with roughly 1,000+ episodes) only the newest part is read. feedTruncated is then true, episodeCount comes from Apple, and Apple's count tops out at 2,000.
• Apple ratings are per storefront and are read from the public show page. From cloud servers, Apple now and then serves that page with the rating block zeroed. The actor re-checks every zero on a fresh connection. When the page still says 0 but shows written reviews, the rating is returned as null with a warning instead of a wrong 0. A show with ratings but no written reviews can still very rarely show 0. Shows given only as RSS feed URLs have no Apple ID, so their rating is null.
• Guest and sponsor signals are text heuristics on titles and show notes, so treat them as a ranking aid, not a fact. Interview shows whose titles are just the guest's name ("Jane Doe — Topic") score lower than they should.
• Websites that block bots (Cloudflare 403/429) are skipped with a warning; the feed data is still returned.
• Speed: about 1 to 3 shows per second with ratings and website scan on. Turn off includeAppleRating and scanWebsite for the fastest runs.
• Respect anti-spam law (CAN-SPAM, GDPR, CASL) when you email. Pitch shows you have actually listened to.

FAQ

Is this allowed? The actor only uses Apple's public iTunes Search and chart endpoints, public RSS feeds and public web pages. It sends no logins and gets past no CAPTCHA or paywall. The owner email in a podcast feed is published by the podcaster for contact.

Do I need a proxy? No. Apple's endpoints work from Apify without one. There is an optional proxy setting for Apple requests in case Apple ever starts rate-limiting.

Why did a show with no email still come back? requireEmail is off by default because website, socials and Apple links are often enough to reach a host. Turn it on to pay only for shows with an email.

Can I monitor new shows in a niche? Yes. Schedule a run with activeWithinDays and minEpisodes, then dedupe on appleId in your CRM.

Spotify-only shows? Not covered. Nearly every show on Spotify is also listed on Apple Podcasts.

Changelog

• 0.1 (October 13, 2026): first release. Search, top charts by genre and URL modes; RSS owner email, website and contact-page emails, social profiles, Apple rating with histogram, activity stats, guest and sponsor signals, filters, and pay-per-event pricing.