Here's how to download any podcast as an MP3.
✅ Find the Google Podcasts version of the episode you want to download. Type the name of the show in Google with “Google Podcasts” in the search bar
✅ Navigate to the episode you want to download in the Google Podcasts web player.
✅ Click Play
✅ Open Chrome Developer Tools by right-clicking anywhere on the page and choosing Inspect from the context menu.
✅. Find the mp3 filename by using the find command CMD+F, and searching for mp3
✅. Click the file name to select (inside the inverted commas / quotation marks) and choose copy.
✅. Paste the URL into a text editor to remove any extra info. Delete anything before https and anything after .mp3
✅. Paste the naked URL back into Google
✅. Right click the file as it plays in an embedded audio player.
✅. Choose Save As and save your MP3 locally
thank you so much, I was looking for how to do that for nearly a week
Glad it helped. 🙂
I cannot believe how difficult it is to download podcasts and this article was the best method by far. Thank you so much!
Great to hear it worked for you, Charlie.
Thank you!
@Charlie, yeah man! I am shocked, I can’t find any application to download a
podcast into mp3 or any other format.
Great post. So simple.
Sounds stupid, but I figured out the Inspect, find URL and all that on my own…. for some reason I didn’t realize I could just right click on the MP3 as it played and download it.
Thanks for taking the time
You’re welcome, Tom. Glad it helped.
So I tried this but the mp3 part in the inspect was not attached to the rest of the link, it has the link, then end quotes “,”preset”:”mp3_0_1″ and I can’t figure out how to combine it to get to the save as part.
You gotta find the right .mp3 link; try the first one that is already contigous.
BRO, NO F’N WAY! IT ACTUALLY WORKED!
Would never have worked that out without your instructions – many thanks.
What if the podcast that I’m looking for isn’t in google podcast? Is there any other method for that?
Yes, but it would require another workflow. Which network is the podcast on?
Thank you! Spent hours looking at how to do this! Works on apple podcasts website too.
wonderful
very easy
Thanks a lot
Great info ! Thanks for sharing.
The hero we need
Excellent tutorial. Thanks!
thank you so much.
spent some time figuring out the mp3 link part, but eventually found it.
very helpful ❤️
Thank you.
You are being really helpful.
Thank you so much.
your tutorial is easy to follow even for someone without any computer skills -thank you so much for this simple trick
THANK YOU
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I suggest using document.querySelector(‘video’) and getting the url from the node directly
Thanks so much for this post. Just saved my podcast lesson at school!
What if there is no “mp3” when searching?
Give me an example case
After spending endless painstaking days and wasting time with useless websites promising me that the one is better than the other one in downloading a simple podcast interview, none of them could even make out the link I gave them. Then I came across this site after moving away from the main stream of internet users and their &*^%$ useless advice and getting told here to just go and copy the damn address in the site “Inspect” section and paste it in my browser and get access to it there. I first rolled my eyes and thought by myself “what’s %^&* next?”. As I was now running out of options and patience I gave it a go. Couldn’t belief my eyes. Got my Audio file in seconds. Thank you so much Tim ! You should go and work for NASA or something because I think your ways are much easier and quicker ! Now I just need to get rid of all these ^%^&* ton of useless crap extensions and shit I was pointlessly downloading while I was on my way to you for a REAL plan ! Thanks, it was a good stop ! Now I can carry on with . . . hmmm, can’t even remember with what I was busy with after all these freeken distractions.
You’re welcome. But who’s Tim?
Keith