I can’t find it for the life of me now. But someone did create a web interface to Apple’s “search engine”. It’s used in different parts of the interface. ht

I can’t find it for the life of me now. But someone did create a web interface to Apple’s “search engine”. It’s used in different parts of the interface. https://cmitsolutions.com/hartford/apples-web-crawler-applebot/ https://cmitsolutions.com/hartford/apples-web-crawler-appleb... On the other hand, Apple has been operating a podcast indexer for over 15 years that anyone can submit podcast RSS feeds and has had a fully documented API for searching its index the entire time. Any third party client can use it. No, Apple never stores the audio on its servers unlike Spotify.