hagna/generalconference

Programming-friendly General Conference

This is a repository of programmer-friendly versions of General Conference talks of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is not an official church project and The Church owns the copyright to the content of the talks.

I made this because I often want to do programmatic things with the talks, and don't want to write the downloader/parser for every project.

Pull requests are welcome!

Usage

First, clone this repo, then:

pip install -r requirements.txt
python download.py --help

So, to get the talks for April 2005, this would work:

python download.py 2005 4

Directory structure

The data/ directory contains directories for each language. Inside each language directory, (e.g. data/eng/), there is a directory for each General Conference.

Inside each General Conference directory (e.g. data/eng/2015-10/) you will find:

• An index.yml file with data for the whole conference. Example
• A directory for each talk

Inside each talk directory (e.g. data/eng/2015-10/014-it-works-wonderfully) you will find:

• A metadata.yml file with information about the talk. Example
• A text.md file with the content of the talk in it. Example
• Optionally, a youtube_timing.yml file with information to match the text of a talk with the timing of the YouTube video. Example