Podcast search (iTunes) API

Search podcasts via the keyless Apple iTunes Search API, normalized to title, author, genre(s), episode count, RSS feed URL, country, artwork, store URL, and ids. The feedUrl pairs with media-podcast-episodes. Answers 'find the podcast This American Life','get a podcast RSS feed','how many episodes does a podcast have','podcast author and genre'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data/media-podcast-search

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache3600s public

mediapodcastrssaudioitunesshowfeedentertainment

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/data/media-podcast-search

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "query": "This American Life",
  "limit": 3
}

Example response

{
  "query": "This American Life",
  "count": 1,
  "podcasts": [
    {
      "title": "This American Life",
      "author": "This American Life",
      "genre": "Society & Culture",
      "genres": [
        "Society & Culture",
        "News"
      ],
      "episodeCount": 499,
      "feedUrl": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/rss.xml",
      "releaseDate": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "country": "USA",
      "artworkUrl": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/.../600x600bb.jpg",
      "url": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/.../id201671138",
      "collectionId": 201671138,
      "artistId": null
    }
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "This American Life",
        "Radiolab"
      ]
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "default": 15,
      "examples": [
        10
      ]
    },
    "country": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}