The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

Amit Varma

Topics: Politics, News, Society & Culture

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442 episodes of The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma 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/1190896090/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

• Ep 451: Manish Sabharwal is a Good Ancestor August 24, 2026
• Ep 450: Small Doors Into the Large Rooms of India August 10, 2026
• Ep 449: Five Assassinations and an Arms Deal July 27, 2026
• Ep 448: Vidya Mahambare, the Rooted Economist July 13, 2026
• Ep 447: Rahul Ahluwalia Fights for Growth and Freedom June 29, 2026
• Ep 446: The Joyful Agency of Luis Miranda June 15, 2026
• Malini Goyal is the Curious One April 15, 2024

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curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
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