I like Deutsche Welle Langsam Gesprochene Nachrichten as a learning resource a lot. I don't like visiting their website, it's cluttered and slow as the rest of the modern Internet. So I wrote this scraper to just get the data and display it in a minimalist manner.
What it does:
- Scrape the official LGN RSS to
lgn.jsonlines. - Download the mp3 files, two versions, slow and original tempo.
- Glue the text with metadata and audio into continuous file
lgn.html.
It's idempotent, it won't re-download files it already has.
In dedicated Python 3.6+ virtual env:
make install
make
# optionally, to store the files in a repository
make push
xdg-open lgn.html
I'd like to be able to control last touched audio player with keyboard, pause, rewind few seconds with keyboard.
2022.06.18: updated to run with 3.10 and newest scrapy the website also changed a bit