Building a Podcast Guest Tracker Across Shows and Platforms

Building a Podcast Guest Tracker Across Shows and Platforms Tracking who appears on which podcasts reveals influence networks, trending experts, and booking patterns. Let's build a Python scraper that monitors podcast guests across platforms. Data Sources Podcast RSS feeds — Direct access to episode metadata Apple Podcasts — Episode descriptions with guest names ListenNotes API — Podcast search engine with API Setting Up pip install requests beautifulsoup4 feedparser pandas spacy python3 -m spacy download en_core_web_sm Parsing RSS Feeds Every podcast has an RSS feed — the most reliable data source: import feedparser def parse_podcast_feed ( feed_url ): feed = feedparser . parse ( feed_url ) episodes = [] for entry in feed . entries : episodes . append ({ " title " : entry . get ( " title " , "" ), " published " : entry . get ( " published " , "" ), " summary " : entry . get ( " summary " , "" ), " duration " : entry . get ( " itunes_duration " , "" ), " link " : entry . get ( " link "