Podcast Search & New Episode Monitor (Apple Podcasts + RSS)

What does Podcast Search & New Episode Monitor do?

This Actor finds podcasts on Apple Podcasts by keyword, by link or from the Apple top charts (overall or by genre), then reads each show's own RSS feed to add what the directory doesn't show: website, language, first and latest episode dates, how often it publishes, whether it's still active, and the episodes themselves with audio links and durations.

Turn on monitor mode and every scheduled run returns only new episodes. It works as an Apple Podcasts API alternative that needs no API key.

Why use it?

• 🎙️ Podcast guest booking and PR. Build a list of active shows in your niche, with publishing frequency so you skip dead podcasts.
• 📈 Market and chart research. Track who ranks in Business, Technology or any genre, by country.
• 🔔 New-episode alerts. Feed new episodes into Slack, a spreadsheet, a transcription pipeline or an AI summary workflow.
• 🗂️ Directories and apps. Get clean show and episode data for your own catalog.

What data can it extract?

Field	Description
title, publisher, primaryGenre, genres	Show basics from Apple Podcasts
appleUrl, feedUrl, website	Where to find the show
latestEpisodeAt, firstEpisodeAt, avgDaysBetweenEpisodes, isActive	Publishing activity from the RSS feed
feedEpisodeCount, appleEpisodeCount	Episode counts
chartRank, chartGenreId	Position in the Apple top chart
Episode rows: title, publishedAt, durationSeconds, audioUrl, episodeNumber, season, link, description	One row per episode

Rows have type = podcast or episode, so you can split them in any spreadsheet. The Output tab has a Podcasts view and an Episodes view.

How to scrape Apple Podcasts

1. Add search terms, paste Apple Podcasts links or RSS feeds, or turn on the top chart (add a genre ID such as 1321 for Business or 1318 for Technology).
2. Choose how many episodes per show you want, or turn episodes off.
3. Click Start. Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.
4. For alerts, turn on Only new shows and episodes since last run and add a Schedule.

How much does it cost?

Pay per event: $1.20 per 1,000 podcasts and $0.40 per 1,000 episodes. No start fee. Example: tracking 50 shows daily for new episodes (about 200 new episodes a month) costs roughly $0.08 a month. A one-off list of 200 shows with their 10 latest episodes costs about $1.04. Apify's free plan includes monthly credits you can use to try it.

Input

See the Input tab for all options. Use any of: search terms, specific podcasts, or the top chart. With none of them, the Actor returns the current top 10 Apple Podcasts chart. Apple limits its directory API to about 20 calls a minute, so the Actor paces those calls; RSS feeds are read in parallel.

Output

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

[
  {
    "type": "podcast",
    "appleId": "1000000001",
    "title": "The Example Show",
    "publisher": "Example Media",
    "primaryGenre": "Technology",
    "website": "https://example.com",
    "latestEpisodeAt": "2026-01-14T08:00:00.000Z",
    "avgDaysBetweenEpisodes": 7,
    "isActive": true,
    "chartRank": 3,
    "feedUrl": "https://feeds.example.com/show.xml"
  },
  {
    "type": "episode",
    "appleId": "1000000001",
    "podcastTitle": "The Example Show",
    "title": "Episode 42: An example conversation",
    "publishedAt": "2026-01-14T08:00:00.000Z",
    "durationSeconds": 3120,
    "audioUrl": "https://cdn.example.com/episode-0001.mp3"
  }
]

Tips

• Set Episodes per show to 0 (or turn episodes off) for show lists only.
• Use Episodes published after for backfills of a date range.
• Use one monitor name per watch list.

FAQ, disclaimers and support

Do you collect host emails? No. Feed owner names and emails are deliberately skipped. Data comes from Apple's public directory API and the shows' public RSS feeds, which publishers create so their shows can be distributed.

Our Actors are ethical and do not extract any private user data, such as email addresses, gender, or location. They only extract what the user has chosen to share publicly. We therefore believe that our Actors, when used for ethical purposes by Apify users, are safe. However, you should be aware that your results could contain personal data. Personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers.

A feed failed. Some publishers block or move feeds. Failed feeds are listed in RUN_SUMMARY and the show row is still saved with Apple's data.

Questions or requests: use the Issues tab. For programmatic access, see the API tab.