Podscan Podcast Intelligence Scraper

Scrape unified podcast metadata from Podscan.fm — the cross-platform podcast intelligence platform indexing 3M+ podcasts. Extract Apple Podcasts IDs, Spotify show IDs, host names, contact emails, episode counts, social links, and more.

What This Actor Does

Podscan.fm is a 2024-launched service that indexes podcasts across all major platforms (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and 50+ others) and enriches them with contact info and analytics. This actor crawls the 4,500+ podcasts in Podscan's sitemap and extracts structured metadata for each.

Use cases:

• B2B podcast outreach lists (contact emails + host names)
• Podcast market research and competitive analysis
• Influencer discovery by category, language, and episode count
• Cross-platform podcast ID matching (Apple ↔ Spotify ↔ website)

Output Fields

Field	Type	Description
podcast_name	string	Podcast display name
podcast_url	string	Podscan.fm profile URL
apple_podcasts_id	string	Apple Podcasts numeric ID
spotify_show_id	string	Spotify show identifier
publisher	string	Publishing organization name
language	string	Language code (e.g., "en")
category	string	Primary podcast category
episode_count	integer	Total episode count
latest_episode_published_at	string	Latest episode date
description	string	Full podcast description
host_names	array	Host/author names
contact_email	string	Contact email (when available)
website_url	string	Official website URL
social_links	object	Social media links by platform
scraped_at	string	ISO timestamp of scrape

Input

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
maxItems	integer	Yes	Maximum number of podcasts to scrape (use 0 for all ~4,500)

Usage

Set maxItems to control the number of results. The sitemap contains ~4,500 podcasts ranked by popularity. The default prefill of 10 is for testing — set to 0 for a full run.

The actor respects Podscan's crawl-delay: 2 from robots.txt, running at 5 concurrent requests.

Notes

• Contact emails are encoded by Cloudflare's email obfuscation and decoded by the actor
• RSS feed URLs are not exposed in the public HTML (they require account access)
• Country data is not available in the public SSR HTML