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Max von Hippel
Max von Hippel

Reputation: 2970

Search iTunes for podcast by title

I'd like to find the specific podcast episode titled "#1: The Single White Guy Focus Group." According to the iTunes search API, I believe I should be able to find it with the following:

https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=%231:+The+Single+Straight+Guy+Focus+Group&entity=podcast&attribute=keywordsTerm

But that returns an empty JSON. I also tried

https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=The+Single+Straight+Guy+Focus+Group&entity=podcast

... and ...

https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=The+Single+Straight+Guy+Focus+Group

... but I always get the same result.

{
 "resultCount":0,
 "results": []
}

I'm baffled. I know the episode is in there - here it is.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1-single-straight-guy-focus/id775053292?i=1000375469754&mt=2

(posting full url so deliberately, so you can see that indeed there is a url which does point to that specific episode)

So why can't I find it?

EDIT: Note that I am doing this in an Obj-C iOS app, in case that is relevant.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 2182

Answers (3)

W. Curtis Preston
W. Curtis Preston

Reputation: 11

I came here with a slightly different problem, and also found the documentation for the itunes search to be a bit lacking. But thanks to @ntschier I was able to put this search together:

https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=1469663053&country=US&media=podcast&entity=podcastEpisode&limit=5

This gives me the five most recent episodes from my podcast. I will be using this with Zapier (hopefully) to follow my podcast and automatically tweet/FB/LinkedIn out new episodes using their Webhooks feature.

The only problem I'm having is there seems to be a delay between the time something shows up on Apple Podcasts and when it shows up in an itunes search. Not sure what's up with that. By delay, I mean many hours at least.

Upvotes: 1

ntschier
ntschier

Reputation: 141

After a TON of hair-pulling, I've found that there is an undocumented entity (podcastEpisode) that does what we all want.

So, on the off-chance the original poster is still at this after 3 years (or more likely other frustrated folks like myself browsing) - try this (using the original example):

https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=The+Single+Straight+Guy+Focus+Group&entity=podcastEpisode

Upvotes: 8

lzbonzo
lzbonzo

Reputation: 21

Unfortunately apple API searches only by the title of the podcast and not by the title of the episode. I'm trying to add a search by episode on my app but to no avail so far

Upvotes: 2

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