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Pay per event

Dharma Seed Teacher & Talk Archive Scraper

Scrape the Dharma Seed archive of 600+ Western Insight/Vipassana meditation teachers and 30,000+ CC-licensed dharma talks. Returns teacher profiles with embedded talk metadata including audio URLs.

Pricing

Pay per event

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BowTiedRaccoon

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Monthly active users

7 days ago

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What it returns

One record per teacher, each with embedded talk metadata:

Field	Description
`teacher_id`	Unique teacher ID from Dharma Seed
`name`	Teacher full name
`tradition`	Inferred tradition (Theravada, Zen, Tibetan, etc.)
`center_affiliation`	Primary teaching center (IMS, Spirit Rock, Amaravati, etc.)
`bio`	Full biography
`photo_url`	URL to teacher photo on media.dharmaseed.org
`profile_url`	Link to teacher profile page
`talk_count`	Total number of recorded talks
`retreat_count`	Number of retreats extracted from the teacher's talks
`country`	Teacher's country
`latest_talk_date`	Date of most recent recording (YYYY-MM-DD)
`talks`	JSON array of talk objects — each with `talk_id`, `title`, `audio_url`, `duration_min`, `recorded_date`, `venue_id`, `retreat_id`

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`maxItems`	integer	10	Maximum number of teacher records to collect
`maxTalksPerTeacher`	integer	0	Max talks to include per teacher (0 = all talks)

Performance note: With maxTalksPerTeacher: 0 (all talks), a full archive run fetches ~30,000+ individual talk records. For quick lookups, set maxTalksPerTeacher: 10-50. For teacher profiles without talk details, set maxTalksPerTeacher: 0 and maxItems to your teacher count.

Example output

{
  "teacher_id": 4,
  "name": "Ajahn Amaro",
  "tradition": "Theravada",
  "center_affiliation": "Insight Meditation Society",
  "bio": "As co-abbot of Abhayagiri Monastery...",
  "photo_url": "https://media.dharmaseed.org/uploads/photos/teacher_4_125_0.png",
  "profile_url": "https://www.dharmaseed.org/teacher/4/",
  "talk_count": 212,
  "retreat_count": 45,
  "country": "USA",
  "latest_talk_date": "2021-08-22",
  "talks": "[{\"talk_id\":68215,\"title\":\"Opening Reflections\",\"audio_url\":\"https://www.dharmaseed.org/talks/68215/...mp3\",\"duration_min\":41.9,\"recorded_date\":\"2021-08-21\",\"venue_id\":195,\"retreat_id\":4945}]"
}

Who uses this data

Meditation app content teams (Calm, Ten Percent Happier, Waking Up) sourcing CC-licensed teaching content
Podcast aggregators building dharma talk directories
Academic researchers in comparative religion, Buddhist studies
Journalists covering the Western vipassana movement
Teacher directories and listing sites

Source

All content from dharmaseed.org is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Use of audio content must comply with this license.

Notes

Teacher records without a public listing on Dharma Seed are automatically filtered
The tradition and center_affiliation fields are inferred from bio text — not stored explicitly by Dharma Seed
Audio URLs are direct MP3 download links (no authentication required)

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