This dataset contains podcast RSS feed metadata for podcasts classified as Turkish by both lingua-py and fast-langdetect. It includes only feed metadata and URLs (e.g., RSS URLs), not any podcast audio or episode content.

Why and how was it built?

I wanted to create this dataset because I could not find an existing one that met my needs. I then downloaded the Podcast Index dataset, which contains 4.5 million podcasts globally. Although entries are labeled as Turkish or other languages, these tags were unreliable; therefore: despite the presence of language tags in the original 4.5M-podcast index, I first concatenated title and description fields and applied a 20-character minimum length filter to the combined text, which removed only ~20K entries from the dataset. I then ran lingua-py and fastlangdetect on the remaining data and retained only entries where both detectors agreed on Turkish, resulting in a high-confidence, clean Turkish podcast subset.

What’s Inside

Source: podcastindex_feeds_lang_tr_both.parquet
Rows: 18,489
Format: Parquet
Columns: Full podcast feed metadata (RSS URL, title, description, language, enclosure URL, etc.) + language detection outputs.

License

This dataset is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

Important Notice (Copyright)

This dataset only contains RSS feed links and metadata.
It does not include any podcast audio files.
It is intended for research and indexing purposes.
The dataset does not distribute or re-host podcast content, so it does not violate podcast copyright.
If you do not want your podcast to be listed in this dataset and would like it to be removed, please contact us by opening a topic in the community section. Your request will be fulfilled.

Example Usage

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

table = pq.read_table("podcastindex_feeds_lang_tr_both.parquet")
print(table.schema)

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the original source of the podcast feed index and this subset:

@dataset{solakoglu2026_turkish_podcast_rss,
  author = {Hasan Can Solakoğlu},
  title = {Turkish Podcast RSS Links},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/hcsolakoglu/turkish-podcast-links}
}

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