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The Robert Louis Stevenson Library

Robert Louis Stevenson · 312 episodes with transcripts

Welcome, dear listener, to The Robert Louis Stevenson Library, a quiet harbour for those who delight in tales of adventure, mystery, and the curious turns of the human heart. Within these walls you will find the works of Robert Louis Stevenson read in full, chapter by chapter.

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312 episodes of The Robert Louis Stevenson Library have transcripts. Fetch them all as speaker-labeled Markdown in one script — 1 credit each, and re-fetching one you already have is free:

archive.sh
curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1882499439/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

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curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/transcripts/1000793501562

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