The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Topics: History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

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445 episodes of The China History Podcast 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/489369498/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.

Example Transcripts

• A Concise History of China-Pangu to Puyi - Part 2 September 2, 2026
• A Concise History of China-Pangu to Puyi - Part 1 August 26, 2026
• This Was Funnier in China | Laszlo and Jesse Appell February 4, 2026
• Ep. 371 | Choie Sew Hoy and the Sinking of the S.S. Ventnor January 28, 2026
• Ep. 370 | The Looting of the Eastern Tombs December 18, 2025
• A Useful Chengyu - Hébù Shí Ròumí 何不食肉糜 November 10, 2025
• WWII Pacific Atrocities | Quin Cho and the Kwantung Army November 5, 2025

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curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/transcripts/1000787383242