How I Built This (NPR) Transcripts | Free YouTube Transcript API

Get transcripts of How I Built This (NPR) videos via REST API. Founder origin stories. Free tier available. Use the YouTube Transcript API to programmatically pull transcripts from How I Built This (NPR) videos for analysis, summarization, search, or AI training.

Quick start

Get any How I Built This (NPR) 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 How I Built This (NPR)?

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