Bulk download all 4 million podcasts and 180 million episodes

You can choose to integrate Taddy API into your app in 2 main ways:

1. Use our API

Make an API request to Taddy API to get the details of any podcast or episode.

Taddy API Costs: Available for Free, Pro, and Business Taddy API users.

Additional Setup + Maintenance: None

Additional Costs: None

Why Choose This Option?

This is the quick, straightforward way to get podcast data into your app.

2. Full Data Control

If your use case requires more control and you need to store all podcast and episode data in your own database, Taddy makes it easy to:

Export podcast data from Taddy API - A one-time export (or monthly snapshots) of all podcast and episode data from Taddy’s database.

Keep your database in sync with our database – We continuously check RSS feeds for new or updated episodes and push any updates to an endpoint on your server via webhooks.

When used together, the database export and webhooks allow you to keep your own up-to-date database of all podcasts and episodes.

Taddy API Costs: One-time fee for data export (details below) plus Taddy API Business plan is required to receive webhook events for new or updated episodes.

Additional Setup + Maintenance: Yes. (You need to maintain and host your own database/infrastructure).

Additional Costs: Yes. (~$200 to $400 per month to host your own infrastructure).

Why Choose This Option?

While not necessary for most users, this option is ideal if you want complete control over your podcast data. Start with Taddy’s API for simplicity, and transition to full data control if / when needed.

Export data from Taddy API:

Taddy offers a complete export of our podcast data, including an export of these tables:

podcast table (4 million podcasts)

episodes table (180 million episodes)

genres table (a podcast can belong to up to 5 genres)

itunes_info table (additional information on the podcast from Apple iTunes)

📦 Full Dataset Size: ~80 GB

💰 One-time Fee: $4,750 USD

📎 Download a Sample dataset of 10,000 podcasts and episodes.

If you have any further inquiries or want to purchase the full dataset, please contact [email protected]

Monthly Snapshots

If you have purchased the above one-time export and you are on the Taddy Business plan, you get access to monthly snapshots of podcast data from our database on the 1st of every month.

To download info on what snapshot files are available:

Download the JSON file at https://ax3.taddy.org/db-snapshot/contents.json. You must pass in your Taddy API X-USER-ID and X-API-KEY in the headers.

Example:

curl -H "X-USER-ID: 1" -H "X-API-KEY: xyz..." \                                                                                           
https://ax3.taddy.org/db-snapshot/contents.json > ~/Downloads/contents.json

The JSON file lists available tables, when they were last updated, and the corresponding file names.

Example:

[
  {
    "tableName": "podcastseries",
    "updatedAt": "2025-05-01T04:00:40.000Z",
    "fileNames": [
      "podcastseries.zip"
    ]
  },
  {
    "tableName": "podcastepisode",
    "updatedAt": "2025-05-01T06:18:16.000Z",
    "fileNames": [
      "podcastepisode-part1.zip",
      "podcastepisode-part2.zip",
      "podcastepisode-part3.zip"
    ]
  },
  {
    "tableName": "genres",
    "updatedAt": "2025-05-01T03:56:52.000Z",
    "fileNames": [
      "genres.zip"
    ]
  },
  {
    "tableName": "itunes_info",
    "updatedAt": "2025-05-01T03:58:17.000Z",
    "fileNames": [
      "itunes_info.zip"
    ]
  }
]

Downloading each file:

To download each file listed in contents.json, use this format: https://ax3.taddy.org/db-snapshot/{fileName} and pass in your Taddy API X-USER-ID and X-API-KEY in the headers.

Example:

curl -H "X-USER-ID: 1" -H "X-API-KEY: xyz..." \                                                                                           
https://ax3.taddy.org/db-snapshot/podcastseries.zip > ~/Downloads/podcastseries.zip

Note: If you downgrade from Taddy Business Plan to a lower plan, you will loose access to future monthly snapshots.

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]