# Apple Channels Scraper 🎧📡🍏🚨 (`scrapestorm/apple-channels-scraper`) Actor

🔍 Looking to explore podcast channels by keyword on Apple Podcasts? With the Apple Podcasts Channel Scraper 🍏📡, you can extract channel names, descriptions, show counts, artwork, and more. Fast, simple, and ideal for podcast fans, researchers, marketers, and data analysts! 📊🎙️

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapestorm/apple-channels-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Storm\_Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapestorm) (community)
- **Categories:** Videos, Social media, Automation
- **Stats:** 6 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$19.49/month + usage

To use this Actor, you pay a monthly rental fee to the developer. The rent is subtracted from your prepaid usage every month after the free trial period. You also pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher Apify subscription plan you have.

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

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

### 🍏 Apple Podcasts Channel Scraper 🎧📡

The Apple Podcasts Channel Scraper allows you to extract detailed podcast channel listings directly from Apple Podcasts. Whether you're building a podcast aggregation platform or conducting research on podcast networks, this tool helps you collect structured and reliable channel data effortlessly.

Perfect for data analysts, content marketers, podcast curators, or platform developers looking to automate Apple Podcasts channel data extraction.

### 🔍 What You Can Extract

This scraper collects comprehensive podcast channel data, including:

📄 Fields Extracted by the Channel Scraper

| Field                       | Description                                        |
| --------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| 🆔 **ID**                   | Unique Apple Podcasts identifier for the channel   |
| 📁 **Type**                 | Type of item (typically "podcast-channels")        |
| 🏷️ **Seller**              | Name of the content distributor (if available)     |
| ⏰ **Release Frequency**     | How often shows in the channel are updated         |
| 📝 **Description**          | Full description of the podcast channel            |
| 🎨 **Background Swatch**    | Background color swatch of the channel branding    |
| 🔗 **Apple Podcasts URL**   | Direct link to the channel page on Apple Podcasts  |
| #️⃣ **Show Count**          | Total number of shows listed under this channel    |
| 👁️ **Display Type**        | Type of display (free, subscription, etc.)         |
| 🌍 **Website URL**          | External website associated with the channel       |
| 🔗 **Seller URL**           | Website or landing page for the seller/distributor |
| 🎙️ **Channel Name**        | Title of the podcast channel                       |
| 📊 **Available Show Count** | Number of shows currently available                |
| 🖼️ **Artwork URL**         | Image URL to the channel artwork/cover             |
| 🖼️ **Logo Artwork URL**    | Image URL to the channel's logo icon               |

### 🔢 How Many Channels Can I Scrape?

You control the number of podcast channels scraped using the maxitems input.

👉 The scraper supports up to 75 channels per search query.

### Key Features ✨

- 🇺🇸 U.S. Market-Focused Channel Discovery

- 🧩 Structured JSON Output

- 🛠️ Search by Keyword

- 📥 Export to Excel, JSON, CSV, XML

- ⚡ Fast and Reliable Scraping

- 🎙️ Aggregates Metadata for Channel-Level Insights

### 💸 Pricing

This scraper operates on a monthly subscription basis, priced at $19.49/month.

### 🔧 How to Use

Using the Apple Podcasts Channel Scraper is simple:

```
🔑 Sign up for an account on Apify.

🌐 Go to the Apple Podcasts Channel Scraper page.

📝 Enter your bulk search keyword (e.g., "comedy", "finance").

🔢 Set the maxitems (up to 75).

▶️ Run the scraper.

📁 Download the results in your preferred format: JSON, Excel, CSV, or XML.
```

### Example Input 📲 👌

Here’s an example of how to structure your input:

```
{
  "keyword": "comedy",
  "maxitems": 50
}


```

| Field      | Type     | Description                                         |
| ---------- | -------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| `keyword`  | `string` | Keyword to search for podcast channels              |
| `maxitems` | `number` | Max number of podcast channels to scrape (Max = 75) |

### 📤 Example Output (JSON)

Here’s a sample of what a scraped podcast show might look like:

```
{
"id": "6442714899",
"type": "podcast-channels",
"seller": "N/A",
"releaseFrequency": "Updated Semiweekly",
"description": "Founded by Bill Burr and Al Madrigal...",
"backgroundSwatch": "FFFFFF",
"url": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/all-things-comedy-network/id6442714899",
"showCount": 49,
"displayType": "free",
"websiteUrl": "https://bit.ly/FollowAllThingsComedy",
"sellerUrl": "N/A",
"name": "All Things Comedy Network",
"availableShowCount": 48,
"artwork_url": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/...jpg/%7Bw%7Dx%7Bh%7Dbb.%7Bf%7D",
"logoArtwork_url": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/...png/%7Bw%7Dx%7Bh%7D%7Bc%7D.%7Bf%7D"
}


```

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***

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# Actor input Schema

## `keyword` (type: `array`):

One or more keywords to search for on Apple Podcasts channels 🔍

## `maxitems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of channels to scrape per keyword 📊 Set how many channels to extract (max 75 per search)

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keyword": [
    "comedy",
    "action"
  ],
  "maxitems": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "keyword": [
        "comedy",
        "action"
    ],
    "maxitems": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapestorm/apple-channels-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 = {
    "keyword": [
        "comedy",
        "action",
    ],
    "maxitems": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapestorm/apple-channels-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 '{
  "keyword": [
    "comedy",
    "action"
  ],
  "maxitems": 50
}' |
apify call scrapestorm/apple-channels-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapestorm/apple-channels-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/2lci2moQaK8jpb77q/builds/m2gE0z9SMLae3zs3T/openapi.json