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> In fact, Apple has provided a freely accessible API to its podcast directory that anyone can use without asking Apple’s permission.

Have you tried using it? I haven’t myself but your comment made me google it quickly, and as far as I can tell, then it’s extremely limited (e.g. you can’t fetch a list of all podcasts, or newly updated podcasts, etc).

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I can only go by using Overcast which uses it and listening to Marco Arment’s podcasts - the author of Overcast.

He frequently complains about Apple’s APIs and posts about technical details about they could be improved, but he has never complained about the podcast API.

What it doesn’t do I assume is give you a list of podcast episodes. That would make sense since Apple’s own player actually polls individual RSS feeds as does Overcast.

Antennapod uses it as the default provider for its podcast search functionality.

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