How to get list of podcast episodes from an album (iTunes Search API)

Question

I'm trying to obtain the list of podcasts episodes from the iTunes Search API. I'm able to make a call to the API and get back all podcast albums based on a search term:

https://itunes.apple.com/search?media=podcast&term=nerdcast

This returns the following json (cropped):

{
"resultCount": 20,
"results": [
    {
        "wrapperType": "track",
        "kind": "podcast",
        "collectionId": 381816509,
        "trackId": 381816509,
        "artistName": "Nerdcast",
        "collectionName": "Nerdcast",
        "trackName": "Nerdcast",
        "collectionCensoredName": "Nerdcast",
        "trackCensoredName": "Nerdcast",
        "collectionViewUrl": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nerdcast/id381816509?mt=2&uo=4",
        "feedUrl": "http://jovemnerd.com.br/categoria/nerdcast/feed/",
        "trackViewUrl": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nerdcast/id381816509?mt=2&uo=4",
        "artworkUrl30": "http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Podcasts/v4/e1/95/35/e1953536-8437-834e-eac8-01147ae11c9e/mza_3422052630315608394.30x30-50.jpg",
        "artworkUrl60": "http://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Podcasts/v4/e1/95/35/e1953536-8437-834e-eac8-01147ae11c9e/mza_3422052630315608394.60x60-50.jpg",
        "artworkUrl100": "http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Podcasts/v4/e1/95/35/e1953536-8437-834e-eac8-01147ae11c9e/mza_3422052630315608394.100x100-75.jpg",
        "collectionPrice": 0,
        "trackPrice": 0,
        "trackRentalPrice": 0,
        "collectionHdPrice": 0,
        "trackHdPrice": 0,
        "trackHdRentalPrice": 0,
        "releaseDate": "2014-05-16T12:12:00Z",
        "collectionExplicitness": "notExplicit",
        "trackExplicitness": "notExplicit",
        "trackCount": 301,
        "country": "USA",
        "currency": "USD",
        "primaryGenreName": "Society & Culture",
        "radioStationUrl": "https://itunes.apple.com/station/idra.381816509",
        "artworkUrl600": "http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Podcasts/v4/e1/95/35/e1953536-8437-834e-eac8-01147ae11c9e/mza_3422052630315608394.600x600-75.jpg",
        "genreIds": [
            "1324",
            "26"
        ],
        "genres": [
            "Society & Culture",
            "Podcasts"
        ]
    },
.....

I'd like now to get all episodes from that first result. I've tried to do a lookup request using the collectionId, but it just returns back the same output as above instead of all podcasts from that collection.

https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=381816509&entity=podcast

From reading the documentation and some other posts this is how I believe it should work, but it doesn't. Is anyone able to help me out? Thanks.

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 06 '15 at 18:31

11

I think what you need to do is to take that feed URL and get the tracks from there directly

"feedUrl": "http://jovemnerd.com.br/categoria/nerdcast/feed/",

I suspect that the iTunes search API documentation and implementation contain caveats that are not written clearly out.

answered Jan 06 '15 at 18:31

juhariis

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Question: is there a standard format that used by these feed URLs that can be parsed through some parser in a consistent way? – p0lAris Jan 21 '20 at 02:34

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 02 '17 at 23:20

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For me, this works. I use this code: https://github.com/ijanerik/PHP-iTunes-API/blob/master/README.md

foreach($results as $item){
$url = $item->feedUrl;
}
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url) or die("feed not loading");
print_r($xml);

answered Jun 02 '17 at 23:20

Michael Boutin

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How to get list of podcast episodes from an album (iTunes Search API)

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