erickouassi / openPrayers

openPrayers is an Open source API for retrieving Christian prayers for Catholic, including daily prayers, devotions, audios, and etc. ✝️

A Collection of Prayers

Catholic Prayers and Devotions:
Christian prayers, Devotions, and audios.

A web service for developers.

I am primarily maintaining this repository for my use cases.

How to

(A fork is a copy of a repository).

1. Fork the repository in your account Click here
2. Clone your repository to make a local copy
3. Use your data (.json, .jpg, .png, and .mp3)

Note: Your URL will be https://your-username.github.io/openPrayers

Direct link of the file with extension .json, .jpg, .png, and .mp3

https://github.com/your-username/your-repo/blob/main/your-file-name?raw=true

or

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/your-username/your-repo/main/your-file-name

<> Available resources

Endpoints

The API style has several endpoints to assist developers. Note that all the endpoints return JSON and are available over https. This API takes no inputs.

• Basic Prayers ./basic_prayers.json
• Rosary Prayer Calendar 2022 ./dailyrosary_2022.json
• Rosary Prayer 7-day Audios ./rosary_day.json
• The Stations of the Cross ./stations_of_the_cross.json
• Saints of the Roman Calendar ./saints-en.json
• Saints of the Roman Calendar (French) ./saints-fr.json

Use in your language

I preferred javascript(Fetch) but you can use PHP, Python, Java, etc

var requestOptions = {
    method: 'GET',
    redirect: 'follow'
  };

  fetch("myURL", requestOptions)
    .then(result => console.log(result))
    .catch(error => console.log('error', error));

feature requests

• The verse of the day Coming soon!
• Divine Mercy Novena Coming soon!

Projects using openPrayers

Do you want to list your project here? contact me here to add your own project now.

• Daily Rosary Prayer: https://dailyrosary.cf/
• Daily Audio Catholic mass reading: https://dailyaudio.cf/
• The Radical Christian: https://theradicalchristian.vercel.app/

Bugs and feature requests

Any problem? Please report it: all bugs, feature requests, pull requests, feedback, etc., are welcome!

First search for existing and closed issues.
If your problem or idea is not addressed yet, please open a new issue.

If you have questions: erickouassi.com/contact

If you want any help setting your rosary web app for yourself, group or church, I’d love to help! contact me here.

Buy me a coffee 🥤¶

If this project help you reduce time to develop, please consider buying me a coffee :)

Note: I am occasionally updating the code.

Happy Coding