Apple Podcasts Charts Tracker 🎙️📈

Track the top podcasts on Apple Podcasts — by storefront and genre. Official Apple RSS, no key required.

This Actor pulls the Apple Podcasts top charts for any country and genre, and returns clean ranked records — rank, podcast name, creator, category, ID and link. Perfect for podcasters, networks, advertisers and market researchers monitoring what's trending.

Uses Apple's official public charts RSS — no key, no login, no browser.

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What you can do with it

• 📈 Track rankings over time — run on a schedule and log chart movement.
• 🥇 See who's #1 — overall or within any genre, in any country.
• 🌍 Multi-country — compare charts across storefronts.
• 🎯 Discover shows — build a list of top podcasts by category.
• 📊 Advertiser & network research — spot risers and category leaders.

Features

• ✅ No API key — official Apple endpoint, works out of the box.
• ✅ Overall or by genre — Comedy, News, True Crime, Business and more.
• ✅ Multi-storefront — us, gb, ca, au, de, and more.
• ✅ Up to 200 per chart — full ranked list with IDs and links.
• ✅ Resilient — retries Apple's occasionally-flaky feed.

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Input

Field	Description
Storefronts	Country codes, e.g. us, gb, ca. One chart each.
Genre IDs	Optional Apple genre IDs (e.g. 1303 Comedy). Empty = overall.
Chart size	How many per chart (up to 200).
Max results	Overall cap.

Common genre IDs

1303 Comedy · 1311 News · 1488 True Crime · 1321 Business · 1324 Society & Culture · 1315 Science · 1304 Education · 1307 Health & Fitness · 1489 Leisure · 1316 Sports · 1310 Music · 1318 Technology

Example — US Comedy + News top 50

{
  "countries": ["us"],
  "genreIds": ["1303", "1311"],
  "limit": 50
}

Output

Each row is one charted podcast:

{
  "country": "us",
  "genre_id": "1303",
  "genre": "Comedy",
  "rank": 1,
  "podcast_id": "360084272",
  "name": "The Joe Rogan Experience",
  "artist": "Joe Rogan",
  "category": "Comedy",
  "release_date": "2026-07-16T06:00:00-07:00",
  "url": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…/id360084272",
  "artwork_url": "https://…/170x170bb.png"
}

Run it on a schedule

Schedule the Actor daily to build your own chart-history dataset, and connect Google Sheets / Slack / webhook integrations to track rank changes.

Notes & limitations

• Uses Apple's official public charts RSS — no key needed.
• Apple exposes up to ~200 entries per chart per storefront/genre.
• Pair with the Apple Podcasts Reviews Scraper to add listener sentiment to any charted show.
• This is public chart data.

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Keywords

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