Scraping Podcast Transcript Databases for Market Research

Podcasts are a goldmine of market intelligence. Founders share candid insights, experts discuss trends, and industry insiders reveal information you won't find in formal reports. Scraping transcript databases makes this searchable. Where to Find Transcripts Several platforms host podcast transcripts: Podscribe, Podcasts.apple.com (with transcripts), and individual podcast websites. Many podcasts also auto-generate transcripts through hosting platforms. Transcript Scraper pip install requests beautifulsoup4 pandas import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import pandas as pd import re from datetime import datetime class PodcastTranscriptScraper : def __init__ ( self , api_key ): self . api_key = api_key def fetch ( self , url ): proxy = f " http://api.scraperapi.com?api_key= { self . api_key } &url= { url } " return requests . get ( proxy , timeout = 30 ) def scrape_transcript_page ( self , url ): resp = self . fetch ( url ) soup = BeautifulSoup ( resp . text , " html.parser " ) # C