🧘 Insight Timer Transcript Scraper

Extract full transcripts, ratings, and play counts from any Insight Timer meditation or talk — in one click.

Paste individual track URLs or a teacher's profile URL to automatically pull their most popular tracks. Built for writers, researchers, and content creators who want to study the craft of mindful communication.

⚠️ Ethical Use Only. This tool is intended for learning, research, and educational purposes — studying tone, pacing, and narrative structure. It is not meant to reproduce content verbatim. Respect the creators whose work you're studying and always credit the original teachers.

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✨ What It Does

• 📄 Full transcript extraction — pulls the complete spoken text from any track page
• 👤 Teacher profile mode — paste a teacher's profile URL (e.g. https://insighttimer.com/sarahblondin) and the scraper automatically finds and scrapes their top N most popular tracks
• ⭐ Rating & play count — captures each track's star rating, number of ratings, and total play count from structured page data
• 🔀 Mix and match — combine individual track URLs and profile URLs in the same run
• 🚀 Handles dynamic content — uses a real Chromium browser to expand Insight Timer's collapsed transcript containers

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🎯 Who Is This For?

Writers, content creators, researchers, and course builders studying mindful communication:

• 🖊️ Content writers — analyse the tone, pacing, vocabulary, and sentence rhythm of top meditation teachers to inform your own voice
• 🎙️ Podcast & script writers — study how expert teachers open, develop, and close a session at scale
• 📚 Researchers — build a corpus of guided meditation language for NLP, linguistics, or wellbeing studies
• 🧠 Course creators — understand how the best teachers structure scripts for engagement and retention
• 📊 Content strategists — cross-reference transcripts with play counts and ratings to identify what resonates most with audiences

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📥 Input

Field	Description	Default
URLs	Individual track URLs and/or teacher profile URLs (mix freely)	—
Max tracks per profile	How many popular tracks to pull when a profile URL is given	20
Delay between requests	Seconds to wait between each track request	3

URL formats accepted

Individual track URL:

https://insighttimer.com/sarahblondin/guided-meditations/transform-the-story-that-limits-you

Teacher profile URL — auto-discovers their most popular tracks:

https://insighttimer.com/sarahblondin

You can mix both in the same run. Duplicates are automatically removed.

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📤 Output

One dataset row per track:

Field	Description
title	Track title
author	Teacher / author name
rating	Average star rating (e.g. 4.94)
rating_count	Number of ratings
play_count	Total number of plays
transcript	Full transcript text
char_count	Transcript length in characters
url	Source URL
slug	URL-derived identifier
scraped_at	ISO 8601 timestamp
error	Error message if extraction failed, null on success

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💡 Example Use Cases

Study a teacher's most popular work: Paste https://insighttimer.com/sarahblondin → set Max tracks to 20 → run. You'll get 20 transcripts from Sarah Blondin's most-played meditations, each with its rating and play count, ready to analyse for tone, vocabulary, and narrative arc.

Identify what content performs best: Sort the output by play_count or rating to see which topics, lengths, or styles resonate most with audiences — a data-driven way to guide your own content.

Compare multiple teachers: Add multiple profile URLs in a single run — the scraper processes each in popularity order.

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⚙️ How It Works

1. URL detection — each input URL is classified as a teacher profile (one path segment) or an individual track (three path segments)
2. Profile expansion — for profile URLs, a Chromium browser opens the teacher's page, sets the sort to "Popular", scrolls to trigger lazy-loading, and collects up to N track links
3. Stats extraction — each track page embeds schema.org JSON-LD structured data containing the aggregateRating (rating + review count) and interactionStatistic (play count). The scraper parses this directly — no fragile CSS selectors
4. Transcript extraction — the browser expands Insight Timer's collapsed transcript container (a Chakra UI element with a fixed-height clip) via JavaScript, then extracts the full text
5. Deduplication — if the same URL appears more than once across inputs, it is only scraped once

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📌 Notes

• Only works on tracks that have a published transcript on the page. Audio-only tracks with no visible transcript return an error row (rating and play count are still captured).
• Profile pages typically surface 15–25 tracks on initial load. The scraper scrolls to trigger lazy-loading for larger requests.
• Video tracks (/video-guided-meditations/) are included when discovered via profile pages.
• Increase Delay between requests if you encounter rate limiting.

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For educational and research use only. Always credit original creators and comply with Insight Timer's Terms of Service.