Music & Podcasts

Podcast Index Scraper

Extract open podcast directory data, feed URLs, value tags, and chapter metadata from Podcast Index database. Powered by spider-browser .

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podcastindex.org target

99.5% success rate

~4ms latency

Quick Start

Extract data in minutes

podcast-index-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://podcastindex.org/podcast/920666");
await page.content();

const data = await page.extractFields({
  title: ".podcast-title",
  author: ".podcast-author",
  description: ".podcast-description",
  categories: ".podcast-categories",
  episodeCount: ".podcast-episode-count",
  image: { selector: ".podcast-artwork img", attribute: "src" },
});

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

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Fetch API

Structured data endpoint

Extract structured JSON from podcastindex.org with a single POST request. AI-configured selectors, cached for fast repeat calls.

POST /fetch/podcastindex.org/

Show titleAuthorFeed URLCategoriesEpisode countLanguage

Try it Fetch API Docs

curl

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/podcastindex.org/ \
  -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/podcastindex.org/",
    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/podcastindex.org/", {
  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