Podcast discovery
Use Spotify Podcasts endpoints to turn podcast discovery into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Turn Spotify podcast discovery, chart, show, and episode pages into structured data for research and agents.
Collect Spotify Podcasts home, category, chart, show, episode, recommendation, and search data through structured API endpoints.
Endpoint families
6
Documented params
42
Examples
8
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
8
Methods
GET
Required params
9
Schema refs
8
{
"platform": "Spotify Podcasts",
"endpoint": "spotify-podcasts-categories",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/spotify-podcasts/categories",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Related use cases
Use cases
Collect Spotify Podcasts home, category, chart, show, episode, recommendation, and search data through structured API endpoints.
Use Spotify Podcasts endpoints to turn podcast discovery into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Spotify Podcasts endpoints to turn show and episode research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Spotify Podcasts endpoints to turn podcast chart monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Each Crawlora platform API is designed around a specific data surface. Instead of exposing a generic fetch endpoint, Crawlora combines endpoint-specific request logic, managed infrastructure, parsing, normalization, billing, and Playground-tested examples.
Request behavior is tuned for the target platform and endpoint type.
Supported endpoints can use managed proxy routing to improve reliability and reduce infrastructure work.
Dynamic pages can be routed through managed browser instances where JavaScript rendering is required.
Challenge pages and unusable upstream responses are detected and surfaced clearly.
Results are returned as documented JSON instead of raw HTML.
Test the same route from Docs and Playground before production integration.
Coverage map
These cards are generated from the active endpoint catalog, so the landing page reflects the same API surface used by Docs and Playground.
/spotify-podcasts/show
/spotify-podcasts/categories
/spotify-podcasts/charts
/spotify-podcasts/episode
/spotify-podcasts/home
/spotify-podcasts/search
Endpoint catalog
/spotify-podcasts/categoriesReturns normalized Spotify podcast category sections and items from Spotify's all-categories browsePage Pathfinder response.
/spotify-podcasts/chartsReturns normalized Spotify podcast chart rankings from podcastcharts.byspotify.com. The chart and region parameters are validated against Spotify's supported podcast chart slugs and countries. Category charts are available only in au, br, de, gb, mx, se, and us.
/spotify-podcasts/episodeReturns normalized public episode metadata from Spotify's getEpisodeOrChapter Pathfinder response, with episode page, embed page, and anonymous oEmbed fallbacks when Pathfinder is unavailable. Provide either uri or id; defaults to a known public episode when omitted.
/spotify-podcasts/homeReturns normalized sections and items from Spotify's podcast home browsePage Pathfinder response.
/spotify-podcasts/searchReturns normalized Spotify podcast shows, episodes, and top results for a search term.
/spotify-podcasts/showReturns normalized podcast show metadata from Spotify Pathfinder.
/spotify-podcasts/show/episodesReturns normalized podcast episodes for a Spotify show URI.
/spotify-podcasts/show/recommendationsReturns normalized related Spotify shows and episodes from Spotify's show recommendations response.
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How to scrape Spotify Podcasts
Spotify's official Web API covers shows and episodes you already have ids for, but not the podcast charts or the browse surfaces its own apps render. Crawlora's 8 Spotify Podcasts endpoints return search, categories, home and chart rows, show metadata, episodes, and recommendations as normalized JSON.
Search podcasts by free-text q, or read the categories and home endpoints for the sectioned browse surfaces Spotify renders in its apps.
The charts endpoint takes a chart such as top-podcasts, top-episodes, or trending — plus per-genre charts like comedy, news, or true-crime — and a two-letter region from the documented market list.
Show metadata and show-episodes take a Spotify uri; episode detail takes a uri or an id.
Show recommendations returns related shows for a uri, which is how you build a topic graph rather than a flat list.
FAQ
Spotify's Web API exposes shows and episodes you already have ids for, but not the podcast charts, the category browse surfaces, or the home sections. Those come from Spotify's own web client, which is what Crawlora's endpoints read and normalize.
top-podcasts, top-episodes, and trending, plus per-genre charts covering arts, business, comedy, education, fiction, health-fitness, history, leisure, music, news, religion-spirituality, science, society-culture, sports, technology, true-crime, and tv-film. Each takes a two-letter region.
A Spotify uri. Search and chart responses return them, so the normal flow is search or chart first, then pass the uri to the show, episodes, or recommendations endpoint.