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Lenny’s Podcast Transcripts Archive

A comprehensive archive of transcripts from Lenny’s Podcast, organized for easy use with AI coding assistants and language models.

About Lenny’s Podcast

Lenny’s Podcast features interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts, providing concrete, actionable, and tactical advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.

Repository Structure

episodes/
├── guest-name/
│   └── transcript.md
├── another-guest/
│   └── transcript.md
└── ...

Each episode has its own folder named after the guest(s), containing a transcript.md file with:

  1. YAML Frontmatter - Structured metadata including:

    • guest: Name of the guest(s)
    • title: Full episode title
    • youtube_url: Link to the YouTube video
    • video_id: YouTube video ID
    • description: Episode description
    • duration_seconds: Episode length in seconds
    • duration: Human-readable duration
    • view_count: Number of views at time of archival
    • channel: Channel name

  2. Transcript Content - Full text transcript of the episode

Usage with AI

Loading Transcripts

Each transcript is a standalone markdown file that can be easily parsed by AI systems. The YAML frontmatter provides structured metadata that can be extracted programmatically.

Example: Reading a Transcript

import yaml
import os
 
def read_transcript(filepath):
    with open(filepath, 'r') as f:
        content = f.read()
    
    # Split frontmatter and content
    parts = content.split('---')
    if len(parts) >= 3:
        frontmatter = yaml.safe_load(parts[1])
        transcript = '---'.join(parts[2:])
        return frontmatter, transcript
    return None, content
 
# Example usage
metadata, transcript = read_transcript('episodes/brian-chesky/transcript.md')
print(f"Guest: {metadata['guest']}")
print(f"Title: {metadata['title']}")

Finding Episodes by Topic

You can search across all transcripts to find episodes discussing specific topics:

# Find episodes mentioning "product-market fit"
grep -r "product-market fit" episodes/

Listing All Episodes

# List all episode folders
ls episodes/

Episode Count

This archive contains 284 transcripts from Lenny’s Podcast episodes.

Data Sources

Contributing

If you notice any issues with the transcripts or metadata, please open an issue or submit a pull request.

Disclaimer

This archive is for educational and research purposes. All content belongs to Lenny’s Podcast and the respective guests. Please visit the official YouTube channel to support the creators.

License

The transcripts are provided for personal and educational use. Please respect the original content creators’ rights.

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