Podcast Guru Scraper 🎙️ — podcasts, episodes, the featured/genre directory & Podchaser ratings

Podcast Guru Scraper reads the Podcast Guru app's own backends directly — Podcast Index (the catalogue), Google Firestore (the featured & by-genre directory) and Podchaser (the social layer) — so it's fast, reliable and complete, with no HTML parsing or headless browser. Read-only public data, no account required. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or an API.

Modes

• Search podcasts — find podcasts by keyword.
• Show detail — full metadata for one show (by iTunes ID or feed URL).
• Episodes of a show — the episode list for one show (title, date, duration, audio URL, GUID).
• Featured directory — the featured-podcasts chart for a country.
• Browse a genre — top podcasts in a genre for a country (Arts, Comedy, True Crime, …).
• Trending episodes — what's trending right now (via Podchaser).

Turn on Include Podchaser ratings & reviews to attach each podcast's Podchaser rating average, rating count and review count — the "meta-social" layer over the raw catalogue. Turn on Include podcaster contacts to attach each show's owner email, owner name and website (from the feed's <itunes:owner>) — ready for outreach and PR lists.

{ "mode": "search", "searchTerm": "true crime", "includePodchaser": true }
{ "mode": "episodes", "itunesId": 917918570 }          // Serial
{ "mode": "genre", "genreId": "1488", "country": "US" } // True Crime

Every row shares one flat schema (podcast / episode / featured / trending), so a mixed export stays a single table; fields that don't apply to a row type are null. Descriptions are returned as clean plain text (HTML stripped).

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	Search · Show detail · Episodes · Featured · Genre · Trending.
searchTerm	string	–	Search mode: keyword.
itunesId	integer	–	Show/Episodes mode: Apple Podcasts collection id (e.g. 917918570).
feedUrl	string	–	Show/Episodes mode: RSS feed URL (alternative to iTunes ID).
country	string	US	Featured/Genre mode: storefront country.
genreId	string	Technology	Genre mode: which genre to browse.
includePodchaser	boolean	false	Attach Podchaser rating/review counts to each podcast.
includeContacts	boolean	false	Attach the podcast's owner email, owner name and website (from the RSS <itunes:owner>) — for outreach/PR.
includeReviews	boolean	false	Also fetch Podchaser review TEXT (author, date, rating, text) per podcast. Billed per review.
maxReviews	integer	3	Reviews to fetch per podcast when review text is on.
maxItems	integer	100	0 = all results.

📤 Output

Podcast rows: title, author, feed_url, itunes_id, podcast_guid, image, description, language, explicit, categories, episode_count, and (with Podchaser on) podchaser_rating_average / podchaser_rating_count / podchaser_review_count / podchaser_url. Episode rows: episode_title, episode_guid, published, duration_seconds, enclosure_url, description. Trending rows add the parent podcast_title.

📌 Good to know

• No account, no sign-in — every credential the app uses for these read paths is app-embedded or a client-credentials token obtained before any user logs in. Write actions (rate/review/follow) and user-owned data are out of scope.
• Data comes from Podcast Index, the app's Firestore directory, and Podchaser — the same sources the app shows a signed-out user.

💰 Pricing — pay per result

Charged per record returned (podcast, episode or directory row).