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Every plan is a monthly allowance of credits and one credit is one episode, any length. A new episode is 1, ready in about two minutes on the fast lane: a forty-minute show and a three-hour interview cost the same. An episode already in the library is 1, and it is yours forever. An AI Search query is 1. Not length, not format, not which plan you're on: nothing moves a price. Each plan also sets how many API requests a day your key can make.

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A free account searches every show, browses every episode and reads the sample transcript, with 1,000 API requests a day. Credits start at $1.

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A ten-minute episode and a four-hour interview cost the same: one credit, unlock included, and we email you when it lands. If an episode's audio can't be transcribed, the credit comes back on its own.

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Every new episode runs on a rented GPU, whatever its length. Measured, not promised: we publish the typical time here. The promise is 5 minutes for a typical job, longer for big batches and always stated before you confirm. 1 credit an episode, on every plan and pack.

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Every call made with your key counts as one request against the plan's daily allowance, site clicks included. Only the calls marked with a credit price on the API page cost anything on top; search, episode lists, status, jobs and transcript reads just count as requests.

See exactly what you get, before you spend a credit

Everything below is real output from one episode we have unlocked for everyone: #878: How to Start When You're Stuck, Finish What You Begin, and Stop Waiting for Inspiration — Creative Advice from Elizabeth Gilbert, Seth Godin, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Lamott and More. Each row shows how to ask for it and a glimpse of the answer; the button opens the complete file, every line of it. That is what 1 credit buys for any other episode in the library.

Unlock an episode 1 credit

One call, then every format below is yours forever. On the site it is one button.

request

curl -X POST https://podmenti.com/api/v1/unlock -H "Authorization: Bearer pm_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"transcript": "a7c18c255b33d645"}'

response

{
  "unlocked": "a7c18c255b33d645",
  "credits": 9,
  "formats": [
    "https://podmenti.com/api/v1/transcripts/a7c18c255b33d645?format=text",
    "…"
  ]
}
Plain text included

Paragraphs, no clutter. What you read on the site and what ?format=text returns.

request

curl "https://podmenti.com/api/v1/transcripts/a7c18c255b33d645?format=text" -H "Authorization: Bearer pm_YOUR_KEY"

result

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and gyms. This is a special ASMR edition of the Tim Ferris show. Welcome. It is very late night after a long day of writing in an undisclosed foreign location, and this is the Tim Ferriss Show. We are going to cover a compilation Uh Incredible insights and advice devoted to a subject very close to my heart and currently consuming a very large percentage of my waking hours, and that is …

Timestamped text included

?format=txt. A clock in front of every segment.

request

curl -O "https://podmenti.com/api/v1/transcripts/a7c18c255b33d645?format=txt" -H "Authorization: Bearer pm_YOUR_KEY"

result

#878: How to Start When You're Stuck, Finish What You Begin, and Stop Waiting for Inspiration — Creative Advice from Elizabeth Gilbert, Seth Godin, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Lamott and More

Timestamped transcript from https://podmenti.com/t/a7c18c255b33d645

[00:00:00] Hello, boys and girls, ladies and gyms. This is a special ASMR edition of the Tim Ferris show. Welcome.
[00:00:06] It is very late night after a long day of writing in an undisclosed foreign location, and this is the Tim Ferriss Show. We are going to cover a compilation
[00:00:18] Uh
…
Subtitles: .srt and .vtt included

Drop straight into a video editor or player. Cues stay in sync with the live audio.

request

curl -O "https://podmenti.com/api/v1/transcripts/a7c18c255b33d645?format=srt" -H "Authorization: Bearer pm_YOUR_KEY"
curl -O "https://podmenti.com/api/v1/transcripts/a7c18c255b33d645?format=vtt" -H "Authorization: Bearer pm_YOUR_KEY"

.srt

1
00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:06,800
Hello, boys and girls, ladies and gyms. This is a special ASMR edition of the Tim Ferris show. Welcome.

2
00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:18,800
It is very late night after a long day of writing in an undisclosed foreign location, and this is the Tim Ferriss Show. We are going to cover a compilation
…

.vtt

WEBVTT

00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:06.800
Hello, boys and girls, ladies and gyms. This is a special ASMR edition of the Tim Ferris show. Welcome.

00:00:06.800 --> 00:00:18.800
It is very late night after a long day of writing in an undisclosed foreign location, and this is the Tim Ferriss Show. We are going to cover a compilation

00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:19.600…
Word-level JSON included

The start time of every single word. Karaoke highlighting, clip cutting, deep links to the second.

request

curl "https://podmenti.com/api/v1/transcripts/a7c18c255b33d645?format=json&timestamps=1&words=1" -H "Authorization: Bearer pm_YOUR_KEY"

result, first segment

{
  "id": "a7c18c255b33d645",
  "title": "#878: How to Start When You're Stuck, Finish What You Begin, and Stop Waiting for Inspiration — Creative Advice from Elizabeth Gilbert, Seth Godin, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Lamott and More",
  "segments": [{
    "start": 0.2, "end": 6.8,
    "text": "Hello, boys and girls, ladies and gyms. This is a special ASMR edition of the Tim Ferris show. Welcome.",
    "words": [{"w": "Hello,", "s": 0.2}, {"w": "boys", "s": 0.5}, {"w": "and", "s": 0.8}, {"w": "girls,", "s": 0.8}, {"w": "ladies", "s": 1.2}, {"w": "and", "s": 1.4}, …]
  }, …]
}
Transcribe a new episode 1 credit, any length

For anything not in the library yet, whatever its length. Unlock included, usually ready in a minute or two, email when it lands. On the site: tick the episodes, press Transcribe.

request

curl -X POST https://podmenti.com/api/v1/requests -H "Authorization: Bearer pm_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"episodes": [{"guid": "…", "url": "https://…/episode.mp3", "title": "…"}]}'

response

{
  "request_id": "9f1c…",
  "already_transcribed": [],
  "queued": 1,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 9,
  "delivery": "transcribing now, usually ready in a minute or two; we email you when it lands"
}
AI Search 1 credit

Ask for anything, get verbatim quotes with timestamps. This is the real answer for this episode, every mention it found.

request

curl -X POST https://podmenti.com/api/v1/ai-search/query -H "Authorization: Bearer pm_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"transcript_id": "a7c18c255b33d645", "topic": "books recommended by title"}'

response

{
  "found": true,
  "summary": "The host introduces several guests by listing the books they wrote.",
  "mentions": [
    {
      "quote": "Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic and City of Girls.",
      "timestamp_seconds": 114,
      "listen_url": "https://podmenti.com/t/a7c18c255b33d645#t=114"
    },
    {
      "quote": "Seth Godin has written twenty-one bestsellers, including Purple Cow, Linchpin and The Practice.",
      "timestamp_seconds": 2707,
      "listen_url": "https://podmenti.com/t/a7c18c255b33d645#t=2707"
    }
  ],
  "credits": 8
}

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