There's a wonderful pool of spiritual resources on JW.ORG. This program makes it possible to follow them easily using the practical features of a podcast player.
This will create a channel for each main page containing media resources on JW.ORG.
The file default_config.ini contains samples of the fields you need to add, especially the source for the medias.
- rename
default_config.initoconfig.ini - run main.py (python3)
python3 main.py
- you can add this line to your crontab to check for updates every week for example
The resulting URL will be http(s)://<general_url>/<podcast_file>.xml
The XML file being locally copied to <general_local_path>
Add this URL to your podcast player. The podcast player will then reads the MP4 video directly from JW.ORG as audio. The lower quality (240p) is used, the size is almost the same as if it were pure audio (so it appeared useless to convert to audio).
Tested successfully with Podcast Republic
To find new sources you'd like to add yourself, go to:
- JW.ORG / Library / Videos
- Click on one of the Video categories (Family, Programs and Events, etc.)
- Click on
See Allfor one sub-category (Annual Meeting, Special Programs, etc.) - Extract the JSON main index storing all the information for this page:
- Right-click : Inspect (Chrome)
- In Inspect, click on the Network tab
- Reload the page
- Find a
b.jw-cdn.orgpage starting withVOD(hover over the filename to see the full URL of the resource)- Right-click then
Copy / Copy link address
- Right-click then
- Click on that resource: it should contain a
categorysection, containing amediasection. - The
mediasection contains a list of resources, with items liketitle,firstPublished, etc. - That's the page you want to add to
config.ini, in thejw_urlfield
- maybe a module extracting the VOD JSON index from the public JW.ORG page