Podcast Scraper – Apple/iTunes, RSS, Reviews & Contacts

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Turn the world's podcasts into structured data. Search Apple Podcasts (or paste RSS feeds) and get every show's metadata, full episode list with audio URLs, star ratings & written reviews, Apple chart rank, and the show owner's contact email — as JSON, CSV or Excel. AI-ready markdown + token counts included. Free APIs, no proxy needed.

💵 Pricing

Pay per result — from $0.01 per podcast (1 dataset item = 1 podcast, with nested episodes & reviews). No subscription, no proxy cost. You only pay for the podcasts you actually scrape. New Apify accounts include free monthly usage credits, so you can test it for $0.

🎧 What can the Podcast Scraper extract?

• Show data — title, author, description (+ AI-ready markdown), artwork, genres, country, language, episode count.
• 📧 Owner contact email — pulled from the RSS feed (<itunes:owner>). Perfect for sponsorship & ad outreach.
• ⭐ Ratings & reviews — Apple Podcasts star ratings and full review text.
• 📈 Apple charts — Top Podcasts by country & genre, with rank.
• Episodes — title, audio file URL, duration, publish date, episode/season numbers, GUID, image, Podcasting 2.0 transcript/chapters.

🚀 How do I use the Podcast Scraper?

1. Click Try for free.
2. Pick a mode: search (keyword), rss (feed URLs), lookup (iTunes IDs) or charts.
3. Enter your query (e.g. true crime) and optionally enable ratings & reviews.
4. Click Start → download results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull them via the API.

⚙️ Input example

{
"mode":"search",
"searchQuery":"lex fridman",
"maxResults":20,
"includeEpisodes":true,
"includeReviews":true
}

📦 Output example

{
"title":"Lex Fridman Podcast",
"author":"Lex Fridman",
"primary_genre":"Technology",
"owner_email":"lexfridman@gmail.com",
"feed_url":"https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/",
"episode_count":498,
"episodes":[
{"title":"#400 – …","audio_url":"https://…/ep.mp3","duration_seconds":10912,"token_count":849}
],
"reviews":[
{"author":"Algo Rhythm","rating":5,"title":"Amazing Podcast!","text":"…"}
]
}

🎯 Use cases

• Podcast ad & sponsorship sales — build a contact database from owner emails + chart rank.
• Market & competitor research — track shows, genres, ratings and release cadence.
• AI / RAG pipelines — clean markdown show notes & episode text with token counts.
• Media monitoring — watch reviews and new episodes on a schedule.

💰 How much will it cost?

The data sources (Apple iTunes API + RSS) are free and unmetered — there is no proxy cost. You pay only the per-result price:

🆚 Comparison

🔗 Related actors

• App Store Scraper — apps, ratings & reviews
• iTunes Store Scraper — music, movies, ebooks
• YouTube Transcript Scraper — video captions
• Newsletter Scraper — Substack, Beehiiv, Ghost

❓ FAQ

Do I need a proxy or API key? No. Apple's APIs and RSS feeds are open. Where does the owner email come from? The public <itunes:owner> field in the RSS feed. Does it cover Spotify? It uses Apple/iTunes + RSS — the universal source every podcast publishes to.

🛟 Support

Found an issue or need a field added? Open an issue on the actor and it'll be fixed quickly. Suggestions for new modes are welcome.

Legal & privacy

Collects publicly available podcast data, including the public owner contact email published in RSS feeds. Use contact data in line with GDPR/CAN-SPAM and Apple's terms.

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