How to Scrape Podcast Data from Apple Podcasts and Spotify

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Podcast data is valuable for media research and advertising.

Apple Podcasts (iTunes Search API, Free)

async function searchPodcasts(query) {
  const url = `https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=${encodeURIComponent(query)}&media=podcast&limit=25`;
  const res = await fetch(url);
  const data = await res.json();
  return data.results.map(p => ({
    name: p.collectionName,
    artist: p.artistName,
    episodes: p.trackCount,
    genre: p.primaryGenreName,
    rating: p.averageUserRating,
    url: p.collectionViewUrl,
    feed: p.feedUrl
  }));
}

No API key needed!

Spotify Podcasts

// Use Spotify API with client credentials
const tracks = await fetch(`https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=${query}&type=show`, {
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}` }
}).then(r => r.json());

RSS Feed Parsing

Most podcasts have RSS feeds with full episode data:

const { parseStringPromise } = require("xml2js");
const res = await fetch(feedUrl);
const data = await parseStringPromise(await res.text());
const episodes = data.rss.channel[0].item;

Use Cases

Podcast market research
Advertising inventory analysis
Content gap identification
Competitor episode tracking
Guest booking research

Resources

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