TranscriptTraversal

TranscriptTraversal is a small Flask-based utility for turning 2020 Democratic primary debate transcripts into more structured, machine-usable data.

The project was built around transcripts published by The New York Times and exposes two simple workflows:

• convert a source transcript URL into structured JSON
• generate basic word-count summaries from the same source

Repository Layout

• app.py: Flask entrypoint and web form handlers
• transcript_traversal.py: transcript parsing and transformation logic
• templates/ and static/: web UI assets
• exploratory_analysis/: supporting analysis notebooks and experiments

Run Locally

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py

Then open http://127.0.0.1:5000/ in your browser.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.