Apple Podcasts Scraper 🎙️

Scrape Apple Podcasts at scale — no API key, no login, datacenter-proxy friendly. Search podcasts by keyword or pull the live Top Charts for any country, and get clean structured data: title, author, RSS feed URL, genre, episode count, artwork and more.

Perfect for podcast discovery, ASO (App Store Optimization) research, market intelligence and advertiser prospecting.

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✨ What it does

• Search mode — query Apple Podcasts by any keyword (e.g. true crime, technology, finance) across any storefront country.
• Charts mode — fetch the current Top Podcasts ranking for a country, optionally filtered by genre, with the exact chart rank for each show.
• Returns the RSS feed URL for every search result — feed straight into any podcast/episode pipeline.
• Fully nullable schema — never breaks on partial data.

💡 Use cases

Use case	How this actor helps
Podcast discovery	Find every show for a topic, with feed URLs ready to ingest.
ASO / market intelligence	Track top-chart movement and genre saturation by country.
Advertiser research	Build lists of high-ranking shows + their publishers to prospect.
Competitive monitoring	Watch how rivals rank across storefronts over time.

🚀 Input

Field	Type	Description
mode	select	search (by keyword) or charts (top podcasts). Default search.
terms	array	Keywords to search (search mode). Default ["true crime","technology"].
country	string	Two-letter storefront code (us, gb, de, fr, …). Default us.
genreId	string	Optional Apple genre ID for charts, e.g. 1489 News, 1488 True Crime, 1318 Technology, 1303 Comedy.
limit	integer	Max podcasts per term / per chart (1–200). Default 50.

Example — search

{
  "mode": "search",
  "terms": ["true crime", "technology"],
  "country": "us",
  "limit": 50
}

Example — top charts

{
  "mode": "charts",
  "country": "us",
  "genreId": "1489",
  "limit": 50
}

📦 Output

One item per podcast:

{
  "podcast_id": "1200361736",
  "title": "The Daily",
  "author": "The New York Times",
  "feed_url": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/Sl5CSM3S",
  "track_count": 2666,
  "genre": "Daily News",
  "genres": ["Daily News", "Podcasts", "News"],
  "artwork": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/.../600x600bb.jpg",
  "url": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736",
  "release_date": "2026-07-20T09:45:00Z",
  "country": "USA",
  "rank": null,
  "source": "apple_podcasts",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-20T10:00:00Z"
}

In charts mode, rank holds the chart position (1 = top).

💰 Pricing

Pay-per-result, roughly ~$0.50 per 1,000 podcasts plus platform usage. Cheap enough to run daily chart snapshots across many countries.

🔗 Related actors

• Podcast Intelligence Scraper
• App Store Charts Scraper
• Deezer Music Scraper
• iTunes Store Scraper

⚖️ Legal

This actor collects only publicly available metadata from Apple's public iTunes Search API and RSS chart feeds. Use responsibly and in line with Apple's terms and applicable law.

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Keywords: apple podcasts scraper, podcast scraper, itunes podcast api, podcast rss feed extractor, top podcasts charts, podcast discovery, ASO podcast research, podcast market intelligence, podcast data export, advertiser prospecting.