Podcast Episodes from RSS: Search & List Episodes

Search shows, list every episode

For podcast researchers, PR and outreach teams, media monitors and developers building podcast tools. Find shows by keyword (Apple Podcasts directory), by Apple Podcasts URL / iTunes ID, or by RSS feed URL, and get one clean row per episode: title, publish date, duration, audio URL, season and episode number. Audio is never downloaded — you get the link only.

Try it free: leave input empty and press Start. The demo is not charged and its rows carry _demo: true.

Price: $0.001 per episode — 1,000 episodes cost $1. Failed feeds, empty searches and the demo cost nothing.

Sample output

podcastTitle	episodeTitle	publishedAt	durationSeconds	season	episode
Example History Show	The Fall of Rome, Part 2	2026-10-20T07:00:00Z	2710	3	12
Example History Show	The Fall of Rome, Part 1	2026-10-13T07:00:00Z	2655	3	11
Tech Talk Weekly	Shipping AI features	2026-10-18T05:30:00Z	3602	null	null

What you can do

• Search: searchTerms runs the iTunes Search API (country selectable) and reads the top shows' feeds
• Resolve Apple links: paste https://podcasts.apple.com/.../id1234567890 or just the ID (iTunes Lookup API)
• Read feeds directly: any public podcast RSS URL
• Limits: max podcasts (1–50, default 2), max episodes per podcast (1–1000, default 5, newest first), published after date
• Fields: podcastTitle, podcastAuthor, feedUrl, appleUrl, episodeTitle, publishedAt (ISO 8601 UTC), durationSeconds, audioUrl, audioType, audioBytes, episodeUrl, season, episode, explicit, descriptionText (plain text, first 500 characters)
• Safe by design: hosts that resolve to internal addresses are never contacted (including redirect targets); feeds are limited to 15 MB and 30 s per request, max 3 in parallel with 0.5 s between requests

Use cases

• Build a list of shows and guests for outreach or sponsorship research
• Monitor new episodes of competitor or industry podcasts on a schedule
• Feed episode titles and descriptions to an LLM or search index
• Import episodes into your own podcast app or catalogue

Input

{ "searchTerms": ["python programming"], "appleUrlsOrIds": ["https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id290783428"],
  "feedUrls": ["https://feeds.npr.org/510289/podcast.xml"], "country": "US",
  "maxPodcasts": 5, "maxEpisodesPerPodcast": 20, "publishedAfter": "2026-01-01" }

Output

{ "podcastTitle": "Example History Show", "podcastAuthor": "Example Media", "feedUrl": "https://example.com/feed.xml",
  "appleUrl": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/example/id123456789", "episodeTitle": "The Fall of Rome, Part 2",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-20T07:00:00Z", "durationSeconds": 2710, "audioUrl": "https://example.com/ep12.mp3",
  "audioType": "audio/mpeg", "audioBytes": 43360000, "episodeUrl": "https://example.com/episodes/12",
  "season": 3, "episode": 12, "explicit": false, "descriptionText": "Plain-text description..." }

A per-podcast summary (status, episodes found, unresolved inputs) is saved as SUMMARY. Feed email addresses are not output. Episodes and shows belong to their publishers; check their terms before republishing. Not affiliated with Apple.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.001 per episode. Failed runs and the demo are free. Store discounts apply automatically: BRONZE −10%, SILVER −20%, GOLD −30%. On the Apify Free plan, the $5 of monthly platform credit covers about 5,000 episodes a month — enough to try it on real data.

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