Podcast Index Scraper

Extract open podcast directory data, feed URLs, value tags, and chapter metadata from Podcast Index database.

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target
podcastindex.org: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/podcastindex.org/

return_format

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/podcastindex.org/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://podcastindex.org/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "show_title": "string",
    "author": "string",
    "feed_url": "string",
    "categories": "string",
    "episode_count": "string",
    "language": "string",
    "last_update": "string",
    "value_tags": "string"
  }
}

# Podcast Index Scraper

**Show title**: string
**Author**: string
**Feed URL**: string
**Categories**: string
**Episode count**: string
**Language**: string
**Last update**: string
**Value tags**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from podcastindex.org with a single POST. Call it with no selectors and the model names the fields, or pass your own CSS to skip the AI.

podcast-index-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://podcastindex.org/podcast/920666");

// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();

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

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();

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

import requests

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

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({}),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);