Pocket Casts Scraper

Extract podcast discover pages, trending shows, episode data, and curator picks from Pocket Casts directory. Built on spider-browser .

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target
pocketcasts.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

pocket-casts-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.pocketcasts.com/discover/");
await page.content();

const data = await page.extractFields({
  title: ".podcast-card__title",
  author: ".podcast-card__author",
  category: ".podcast-card__category",
  image: { selector: ".podcast-card__artwork img", attribute: "src" },
});

console.log(data);
await spider.close();

ready to run · spider-browser · TypeScript

Fetch API

One endpoint for pocketcasts.com.

Structured JSON from pocketcasts.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

POST /fetch/pocketcasts.com/

Show titleAuthorCategoryEpisode countDescriptionRating

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cURL

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/pocketcasts.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/pocketcasts.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/pocketcasts.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);

Extraction