# Spotify Podcast Episodes Scraper (`seemuapps/spotify-podcast-scraper`) Actor

Extract every episode from any public Spotify podcast. Get title, description, publish date, duration, audio preview URL, and cover art with pagination across runs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/seemuapps/spotify-podcast-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Seemu Scraping](https://apify.com/seemuapps) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Lead generation, Agents
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 70 total users, 20 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Spotify Podcast Episodes Scraper

Extract every episode from any public Spotify podcast. Get title, description, publish date, duration, audio preview URL, and cover art with pagination across runs.

### What you get

For every episode on the show, one dataset row with:

- **episodeId, url** - Spotify episode ID and canonical episode URL
- **title** - episode title
- **description** - full episode description text
- **publishDate** - release date (`YYYY-MM-DD` when day-precision, full ISO timestamp otherwise)
- **durationMs** - episode length in milliseconds
- **durationFormatted** - human-readable length (`1:23:45` or `42:30`)
- **audioPreviewUrl** - direct MP3 preview clip URL (when Spotify exposes one)
- **imageUrl** - highest-resolution episode cover art
- **explicit** - true if marked explicit
- **showName, showId** - parent show identity
- **scrapedAt** - ISO timestamp of when the run captured this row

Plus a `SHOW_INFO` record in the default key-value store with: `showId`, `showName`, `publisher`, `description`, `totalEpisodes`, `imageUrl`, `mediaType`, `explicit`, `languages`, `copyrights`.

### Use cases

- **Podcast research and analytics** - pull a full episode catalog into a spreadsheet to study release cadence and topic mix
- **Competitor analysis** - benchmark a podcast against rivals by total episodes, average duration, and publishing frequency
- **Content discovery and search** - build a searchable index of episode titles and descriptions for a show
- **Audio archival** - capture every episode preview URL and cover art before a show is delisted
- **Lead generation for podcast outreach** - surface guest names and topics from episode titles for booking pitches

### How to use

1. Paste a Spotify show URL or 22-character show ID into **Spotify Show URL or ID** - `https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk` or just `4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk` both work
2. Set **Max Items** (default 100) - how many episodes to fetch in this run; set 0 for unlimited (capped at 5000 per run as a safety net)
3. Leave **Page ID** blank on the first run
4. Run the actor - episodes appear in the **Dataset** tab in newest-first order, and show-level metadata lands in the **Key-value store** as `SHOW_INFO`
5. To fetch the next page, open the **Key-value store** tab → copy the `NEXT_PAGE_ID` value → paste it into **Page ID** on your next run. If `NEXT_PAGE_ID` is `null`, you've fetched the entire show.

### Output format

Each dataset record:

```json
{
  "episodeId": "7lPfDiR4NVRtpHeMM8rfA4",
  "url": "https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lPfDiR4NVRtpHeMM8rfA4",
  "title": "#2505 - Tom Segura",
  "description": "Tom Segura is a comedian, actor, author, and restaurateur...",
  "publishDate": "2026-05-25",
  "durationMs": 9868671,
  "durationFormatted": "2:44:29",
  "audioPreviewUrl": "https://p.scdn.co/mp3-preview/32c257d827d51de30fcc855424937065bd8a78b0.mp3",
  "imageUrl": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8aa3d019095ecf0a946d8d8d9c",
  "explicit": true,
  "showName": "The Joe Rogan Experience",
  "showId": "4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-27T12:00:00.000Z"
}
```

`SHOW_INFO` in the key-value store:

```json
{
  "showId": "4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk",
  "showName": "The Joe Rogan Experience",
  "publisher": "Joe Rogan",
  "description": "The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.",
  "totalEpisodes": 2697,
  "imageUrl": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8a48c4e5dee3559c8c586e14ae",
  "mediaType": "MIXED",
  "explicit": true,
  "languages": [],
  "copyrights": []
}
```

### Notes & limits

- **One show per run.** For multiple shows, run the actor once per show - each gets its own dataset, `SHOW_INFO`, and cursor.
- **Newest-first order.** Episodes are listed in Spotify's default order - most recent episodes first.
- **Geo-restricted episodes are still listed.** When Spotify hides an episode in your region, the row keeps `episodeId` and `url` but other fields are `null`. This preserves indexing even when metadata is locked.
- **Audio preview, not full episodes.** Spotify only exposes ~30s MP3 previews to public clients. Full episode audio requires a logged-in Spotify session and is not available here.
- **Pagination is offset-based.** `NEXT_PAGE_ID` is the absolute offset of the next episode to fetch (e.g. `50` after the first page). Long shows can have thousands of episodes - chain runs to fetch them all.
- **Wall-clock safety:** the actor stops ~60s before the platform timeout and writes `NEXT_PAGE_ID` so progress is never lost on long runs.

# Actor input Schema

## `show` (type: `string`):

Either the full Spotify show URL (e.g. 'https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk') or the 22-character base62 show ID (e.g. '4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk'). The ID will be extracted automatically.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum episodes to return in this run. Set 0 for unlimited. The actor will auto-paginate within the run until done or the run is about to time out.

## `pageId` (type: `string`):

Paste NEXT_PAGE_ID from the previous run's Key-value store to resume from where the last run stopped. Leave empty to start from the most recent episode.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "show": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk",
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One episode per record. Fields: episodeId, url, title, description, publishDate, durationMs, durationFormatted, audioPreviewUrl, imageUrl, explicit, showName, showId, scrapedAt.

## `showInfo` (type: `string`):

SHOW_INFO record in the default key-value store. Contains showId, showName, publisher, description, totalEpisodes, imageUrl, mediaType, explicit, languages, copyrights.

## `nextPageId` (type: `string`):

NEXT_PAGE_ID record in the default key-value store. Paste into Page ID on the next run to resume; null when the show has been fully listed.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "show": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("seemuapps/spotify-podcast-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "show": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("seemuapps/spotify-podcast-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "show": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk"
}' |
apify call seemuapps/spotify-podcast-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,seemuapps/spotify-podcast-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/KI4PtnqAi2aXcwudV/builds/jdQeo2fqZFeqe1REa/openapi.json