Automated downloads via Docker

[Groke55]

Hi all!

 

New user here, it's my first post. Hope you're all doing great these increasingly hard times.

 

Over the last decade I have senselessly used the web and social media without even thinking about the privacy complications that have brought me later on, the amount of targeted ads that has followed the past years, and slowly increasing almost without me even noticing, has reached new heights.. and I've always taken for granted that jw.org is up and running, not even thinking about how fragile internet is nowdays, just look at the AWS outage that took down half the globe.

 

Additionally, the past six months so much have happened on the privacy front with AI training on everything we've posted the last two decades (maybe even longer), I've come to the realisation that I have to do something about that, preparing for our "basement situation" we might be in the near future. By the way this is a personal decision, and not something I would burden anyone else with, as Jehovah has his strong arm protecting absolutely everyone from spiritual harm, I just take great joy in doing these extra tech-stuff for fun and enlightment, an to me it gives that little extra sense of detatching from satan's system. Anyways..back to my personal decision; I've started to self-host most of my stuff. My calendars, contacts, de-googled apps, local passwordvaults and encrypted docker disks. I wanted to try and set up a docker that monitors our page for new videos, and makes a local copy whenever a new one is out, but I haven't figured out a way to do this. I have tried to do that with yt-dl docker, but our webpage uses more secure way of showing videos.

 

I know there is an Android app that is not official, on the Play Store, a media player for Android TV. This app seems to always be able to get the latest video that is out out there, and I figured there must be a way to look at the source code of that .apk in order to figure out how it fetches the data, and how I might be able to make an automated dockerized solution for my self-hosted home network? In the event that internet would be strictly governed, or even UDP-ports would be just outright blocked, I'd at least have a local copy of every video that has been put out online, and it saves me from a lot of manual labor, right now I am manually downloading everything.

 

Any technical insigtful brothers or sisters in here that could have some smart ideas in what i could look in to? 

TLDR: Want an automated dockerized solution to automatically fetch our videos

 

Kind regards from your brother in Scandinavia <3

[jwhess]

Our organization supports RSS feeds.

Welcome to our forum.

[Groke55]

9 minutes ago, jwhess said:

Our organization supports RSS feeds.

Welcome to our forum.

 

Thank you! That's great, allthough I've never used RSS before so I have to read more into how to do that. If you have any tips on how to get started, I'd be happy to learn about it 

 

But as I've come to understand it - by looking it up abit - the RSS method can only save the webpage, but not download the actual videos themselves?

Edited 7 hours ago by Groke55
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[Eryk]

JW Library will download all the videos locally, but why would you want to? You're better off getting a paper Bible