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The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most now in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives.

Topics: Politics, News, Daily News

Transcribe the entire archive

1,976 episodes of The Brian Lehrer Show have transcripts. Fetch them all as speaker-labeled Markdown in one script — 1 credit each, and re-fetching one you already have is free:

curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/73331636/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

Already-saved files are skipped — safe to re-run after a top-up.

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Example Transcripts

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curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/transcripts/1000787866159

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