Apple Api for Podcast App in Cocoa

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I am creating a podcast App for mac, where user can search podcasts on itunes. Is there any Apple's built in api by which i can search and play podcast from apple itunes. Or any other api for search podcast from itunes. Thanks

Edit:

Now i find out and list the podcast using http://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/toppodcasts/genre=1304/limit=30/json but i am not getting path or list of all episode for that podcast. So that i can list all episode of podcast.

After searching i find out something useful from accepted answer of this post

Display List of Episodes from List of Podcasts But i am not getting any feed url in the json data which return me list of podcast. Any one can tell me how i can get all episode xml/json for a podcast, like displaying in accepted answer of above post.

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Did you ever finish this @Surjeet ? – dylankbuckley
@DylanBuckley: Yes, I finished this with the help of iTunes Search Api. That was the best solution which i found at that time. – Surjeet Singh

1 Answers

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The api documentation here may be your best bet for searching. Moving that to downloading/playing the podcast is going to be a tricky proposition. Perhaps you can use the search data to get the original rss feed, and then access the podcast directly from the source, rather than from iTunes.