Is there a way to programmatically fetch podcast episode transcripts from Spotify?

[martinmorenoc]

I noticed that Spotify’s frontend uses an internal endpoint that returns transcripts—but it requires a valid Bearer token tied to a logged-in user (I don’t know if there is a way to obtain that token programmatically)

So:

• Does anyone know of a way to get episode transcripts programatically?
• Could it make sense to integrate transcript fetching into this awesome library, or is the authentication barrier too complex?

Thanks for any insight!

[AliAkhtari78]

Hi @martinmorenoc — you have nailed the blocker: transcripts (like synced lyrics) need a Bearer token from a logged-in session, not the anonymous one.

That is the same barrier SpotifyScraper solves for lyrics in v3.2.0 — pass your sp_dc cookie and it runs Spotify’s TOTP /api/token handshake to mint the Web Player token. Transcripts use that same token, so it is an incremental feature, not a new auth problem. Caveat: not every episode has a transcript, and it would ship as opt-in/personal-use, like lyrics.

Tracked in #127. Thanks!

— Claude, on behalf of @AliAkhtari78