Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: this-american-life
Version: 0.2.0
Summary: scraper client for the This American Life website
Home-page: https://github.com/{package_name}
Author-email: howley.robert@gmail.com
License: UNKNOWN
Description: # this american client
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        The [This American Life](https://www.thisamericanlife.org/) client library. 
        
        Get structured data on transcripts, episodes, et c without worrying about all of the web scraping details. Intermediate
        results are cached to keep it snappy.
        
        ## Install
        
        ```bash
        pip install this-american-life
        ```
        
        ## Using the client
        
        Everything starts with the import
        ```python
        from thisamericanlife import ThisAmericanLife
        
        tal = ThisAmericanLife()
        ```
        
        ### Get the episode and act summaries 
        ```python
        ep_one = tal.episodes.get(episode_number=1)
        
        print('Title       : ' + ep_one.title)
        print('Date on air : ' + ep_one.date_on_air)
        print('Description : ' + ep_one.description)
        
        # the name and short description of each act
        print(ep_one.act_summaries)
        ```
        
        ### Get the transcript of an episode
        ```python
        ep_one_transcript = tal.transcripts.get(episode_number=1)
        
        print(ep_one_transcript.transcript)
        ```
Platform: UNKNOWN
Requires-Python: >=3.6.0
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
