this-american-life 0.2.0

scraper client for the This American Life website

this american client

The This American Life client library.

Get structured data on transcripts, episodes, et c without worrying about all of the web scraping details. Intermediate results are cached to keep it snappy.

Install

pip install this-american-life

Using the client

Everything starts with the import

from thisamericanlife import ThisAmericanLife

tal = ThisAmericanLife()

Get the episode and act summaries

ep_one = tal.episodes.get(episode_number=1)

print('Title       : ' + ep_one.title)
print('Date on air : ' + ep_one.date_on_air)
print('Description : ' + ep_one.description)

# the name and short description of each act
print(ep_one.act_summaries)

Get the transcript of an episode

ep_one_transcript = tal.transcripts.get(episode_number=1)

print(ep_one_transcript.transcript)