Podcast Search, Episodes & Contacts Scraper + AI

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Find podcasts, pull every episode, grab feed contacts, and—optionally—turn the raw feed into AI insights: show summaries, topic tags, target audience, and guest/host names for booking & PR outreach. No API key, no quota, no Apple developer account.

Most podcast scrapers stop at "here's the show and its episodes." This one adds the layer that actually saves you hours: an AI enrichment pass that no other Apify podcast actor offers.

What it does

• 🔎 Discover podcasts by keyword search, by top-chart genre, or directly from Apple Podcasts URLs / RSS feeds / collection IDs.
• 🎙️ Full episode lists from each show's RSS feed: title, description, publish date, audio URL, duration, season/episode numbers, artwork.
• 📇 Feed contacts: owner name, email and website pulled straight from the feed.
• 🤖 Optional AI insights (billed only when you enable them):
  • Show insights — a clean summary, topic tags and a target-audience description.
  • Guest/host extraction — real person names mined from recent episodes, perfect for building podcast-booking outreach lists.
  • Episode summaries — a one-line summary and topic tags for recent episodes.

Built for reliability: handles paged/truncated RSS feeds, retries on Apple's rate limits (HTTP 429), and degrades gracefully when a show has no public feed.

Who it's for

• PR & podcast-booking agencies — find shows in a niche, get the host/guest names and the feed contact, and pitch your clients.
• Advertisers & sponsorship researchers — surface active shows by genre, see cadence and audience.
• Transcription / AI tool builders — export clean audio URLs + GUIDs to feed a transcription pipeline.
• Researchers & analysts — build topic-tagged datasets of shows and episodes.

Input

Example input

{
"searchTerms":["startup","venture capital"],
"chartGenre":"1321",
"country":"us",
"maxPodcasts":25,
"includeEpisodes":true,
"maxEpisodesPerPodcast":50,
"includeOwnerContact":true,
"aiEnrichment":true,
"aiShowInsights":true,
"aiGuestExtraction":true
}

Output

Each record is one podcast with its episodes, contacts and (optional) AI fields:

{
"recordType":"podcast",
"collectionId":1504208000,
"podcastName":"The Example Startup Show",
"artistName":"Jane Founder",
"feedUrl":"https://feeds.example.com/show.xml",
"appleUrl":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1504208000",
"primaryGenre":"Business",
"trackCount":212,
"ownerName":"Jane Founder",
"ownerEmail":"hello@example.com",
"episodesFetched":50,
"episodes":[
{
"title":"Scaling from 0 to 1",
"pubDate":"Thu, 28 May 2026 07:00:00 -0000",
"durationSeconds":2789,
"audioUrl":"https://cdn.example.com/ep212.mp3",
"guid":"ep-212"
}
],
"aiShowSummary":"A weekly show where founders break down...",
"aiTopics":["fundraising","product-market fit","hiring"],
"aiTargetAudience":"Early-stage founders and operators...",
"aiGuests":[
{"episodeTitle":"Scaling from 0 to 1","names":["Alex Investor"],"role":"guest"}
]
}

How it works (and why it's reliable)

• Uses Apple's public iTunes JSON endpoints for search, lookup (batched) and charts — no key, no quota.
• Reads each show's public RSS feed for the episode list and contacts, following paged feeds so you get the back catalogue, not just the latest page.
• Datacenter proxy is enough — costs stay low, so the price stays fair.

Notes

• The feed contact is the address published in the RSS feed (itunes:owner). It's often the real host, but sometimes a hosting/admin catch-all — treat accordingly.
• AI features are off by default and billed per insight, so a plain scrape stays cheap.
• This actor scrapes publicly available podcast metadata. Respect each show's terms and applicable laws when using the data.