Freakonomics Radio Transcripts | Free YouTube Transcript API

Get transcripts of Freakonomics Radio videos via REST API. Economics applied to everyday life. Free tier available. Use the YouTube Transcript API to programmatically pull transcripts from Freakonomics Radio videos for analysis, summarization, search, or AI training.

Quick start

Get any Freakonomics Radio video's transcript in one HTTP request:

curl "https://youtubetranscript.us/api/v1/transcript?video_id=YOUR_VIDEO_ID" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"

Python example

import requests
r = requests.get("https://youtubetranscript.us/api/v1/transcript",
                 params={"video_id": "VIDEO_ID"},
                 headers={"X-API-Key": "YOUR_KEY"})
data = r.json()
for line in data["transcript"]:
    print(line["start"], line["text"])

Why use it for Freakonomics Radio?

Get started: Sign up for a free API key. 500 requests/month on the starter plan.

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