Apple Podcasts
Apple Podcasts transcript export without the 200-word limit.
Free · 2 episodes/day, up to 45 minutes each.
How it works
- 01
Paste the Apple Podcasts show URL
Open Apple Podcasts on web or in the Mac app, copy the show link (e.g. apple.com/podcast/lex-fridman-podcast/id1434243584), and drop it into podscribie. We resolve it to the underlying RSS feed via the iTunes Lookup API — no scraping, no breakage.
- 02
Pick episodes (or all of them)
We list every episode in the show. Select the few you want, or hit Select all to bulk-transcribe a 400-episode back catalog in one batch (Pro and above).
- 03
Export as Markdown + JSON zip
From the Library, hit Export. You get one .md file per episode (with YAML frontmatter for Obsidian/Dataview) plus a manifest.json with all metadata. No copy-paste, no 200-word ceiling, no iPhone required.
What you get
- Bulk-export an entire show in one click
- Speaker labels survive — “Tim Ferriss:”, not “Speaker 1:”
- Inline timestamps so you can cite the moment
- Markdown + JSON, the formats Claude/ChatGPT/Obsidian actually want
- No iPhone needed — runs in any browser, including Windows + Linux
- Auto-transcribes new episodes once you Follow the show
Frequently asked
Why can't I just copy from Apple Podcasts?+
Apple's built-in transcript view (iOS 17.4+) caps copy at roughly 200 words per selection. To copy a 90-minute episode you'd need 150+ manual selections. Apple doesn't expose a bulk-export API or a Mac/Windows transcript reader at all — the feature is iPhone and iPad only.
Doesn't Apple already provide transcripts?+
For some shows, yes — but only as a viewer feature inside the Apple Podcasts app on iPhone/iPad, with the copy limit above. There's no download button, no API, no .txt export, and no way to bulk-process a back catalog. That's the gap podscribie fills.
Will this work for older episodes?+
Yes. We pull the RSS feed, which contains every episode the show has ever published — typically the entire history. Apple's built-in transcripts only cover episodes from the last few years for shows that opted in.
Does the Sonoma trick still work?+
There was a brief window in macOS Sonoma where you could read Apple Podcasts' local cache file with a Shortcut, but Apple changed the file format in macOS 14.4 and broke it. Even when it worked, it only covered episodes you'd already listened to on that Mac. Podscribie doesn't depend on Apple's local cache so it works on any platform with any episode.
How fast is it?+
A 1-hour episode is fully transcribed and summarized in roughly 15-25 seconds using Deepgram Nova-3. A 4-hour episode (Acquired-style) finishes in under a minute. Bulk-transcribing a 100-episode back catalog completes in 5-10 minutes.
What about Spotify and other platforms?+
Most shows are cross-published to RSS so they work the same way — paste the show URL or RSS feed, transcribe, export. True Spotify-exclusives can't be transcribed because Spotify doesn't expose the audio publicly.
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Free · 2 episodes/day, up to 45 minutes each.