Pocket Casts Podcast Scraper

Scrape rich podcast data from Pocket Casts - one of the world's most popular podcast apps, with millions of listeners rating shows natively inside the app. This actor exposes data you cannot get from an RSS feed or the website: native listener ratings, full episode archives in a single request, publishing cadence analytics, season metadata, and transcript availability.

Features

• 🔍 Podcast search - find podcasts by keyword
• 📊 Category charts - ranked top-podcast charts per category and region (US, UK, DE, AU, and any other region you pick)
• 🎙️ Global episode search - find individual episodes across ALL podcasts by keyword, with direct audio URLs
• 🔗 URL mode - paste a podcast link or UUID for full enrichment
• ⭐ Native ratings - average rating and total vote count from in-app listeners (exclusive: not in RSS feeds!)
• 📚 Full episode archives - every episode of a podcast in one dataset record: title, season, episode number, type (full/trailer/bonus), duration, publish date, file type/size, and the direct downloadable audio URL
• 📈 Cadence analytics - episode frequency (Daily/Weekly/…), estimated next-episode time, total episode count
• 🎞️ Season & transcript metadata - has-seasons, season count, auto-generated-transcript availability, transcript eligibility
• 💸 Funding links - the creator's support/donation links

Input

Field	Type	Description
Mode	Select	Podcast search, Category charts, Episode search, or Paste URLs
Search terms	List	Keywords (Search / Episode search modes)
Categories	Multi-select	19 category charts (Discover mode)
Region	Select	Country whose charts to return - 37 fully localized regions (US, UK, DE, AU, CA, FR, ES, IT, NL, SE, NO, DK, FI, PL, PT, IE, NZ, ZA, BR, MX, IN, JP, KR, CN, TW, HK, SG, PH, TR, IL, SA, RU, UA, CZ, AT, CH, BE). An advanced Custom region field can override it; unsupported codes stop discover mode with a clear message.
Podcast URLs or UUIDs	List	play.pocketcasts.com/podcasts/<uuid> links or bare UUIDs (URL mode)
Max podcasts	Integer	Stop after N podcasts (0 = unlimited)
Max episodes	Integer	Cap episode-search records (0 = unlimited)
Max episodes per podcast	Integer	Cap the embedded episode list, newest first (0 = all)
Include episodes	Boolean	Embed the episode archive in each podcast record
Include ratings	Boolean	Fetch native ratings for each podcast
Resume from a previous run	Text	Paste a prior run/dataset ID to skip already-collected records (no duplicate rows, no duplicate billing)
Incremental mode	Boolean	For scheduled monitoring: first run returns everything as NEW, later runs return only NEW / UPDATED / REAPPEARED
State key	Text	Name a monitoring campaign to keep or deliberately share its state
Emit unchanged / Emit expired	Boolean	Also return UNCHANGED rows, and EXPIRED rows for records that vanished (complete scans only)
MCP connectors	List	Optionally pipe results into your apps (Notion page-per-item, others best-effort). Requires authorization under Apify Settings, API & Integrations

Output

One dataset item per podcast (or per episode in Episode search mode).

Podcast record

{
  "uuid": "873e7420-042d-012e-f9a4-00163e1b201c",
  "url": "https://play.pocketcasts.com/podcasts/873e7420-...",
  "title": "The Joe Rogan Experience",
  "author": "Joe Rogan",
  "slug": "the-joe-rogan-experience",
  "description": "The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.",
  "descriptionHtml": "...",
  "category": "Comedy",
  "explicit": true,
  "showType": "episodic",
  "transcriptEligible": true,
  "episodeFrequency": "Daily",
  "estimatedNextEpisodeAt": "2026-08-28T17:00:00Z",
  "episodeCount": 2744,
  "hasSeasons": true,
  "seasonCount": 1,
  "ratingAverage": 4.5,
  "ratingTotal": 262002,
  "feedUrl": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/GLT1412515089",
  "itunesId": "360084272",
  "episodeCountReturned": 2744,
  "episodes": [
    {
      "uuid": "9d45e19f-e566-414e-8791-7762c3c113a1",
      "url": "https://play.pocketcasts.com/podcasts/.../9d45e19e-...",
      "title": "#2547 - Daniel Everett",
      "slug": "2547-daniel-everett",
      "season": 0,
      "number": 2547,
      "type": "full",
      "durationSec": 9828,
      "publishedAt": "2026-08-27T17:00:00",
      "fileType": "audio/mp3",
      "fileSizeBytes": 0,
      "audioUrl": "https://traffic.megaphone.fm/GLT8609844651.mp3",
      "hasGeneratedTranscript": true,
      "podcastUuid": "873e7420-042d-012e-f9a4-00163e1b201c",
      "podcastTitle": "The Joe Rogan Experience"
    }
  ]
}

Episode-search record

uuid, title, publishedAt, durationSec, audioUrl, podcastUuid, podcastTitle.

Use cases

• Podcast market research: rank shows by native listener ratings and volume
• Catalog building: complete episode lists with direct audio URLs
• Trend detection: publishing cadence and next-episode estimates across a category
• Lead generation: find podcasts by topic with funding/support links

Pricing

You are billed per dataset record (podcast with episodes included, or episode-search result) plus a small actor-start fee. See the Apify Console pricing panel for current rates. Incremental mode suppresses unchanged rows, so scheduled monitoring bills only what changed.

Notes

• Category charts return ~50 podcasts per category per region.
• feedUrl and itunesId are included when discovered via category charts (useful for artwork lookup).
• Direct audioUrl values are time-limited CDN links for some podcasts; re-fetch if expired.