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Brief explanation: mediator.jw.org returns JSON data which contain all info about the categories and videos. The script then downloads and parses the JSON file for each category (you see all the codenames in the output of the script).

A bash script is kind of a rough solution since there are languages, like Python, that support parsing JSON, but that's the only way I know!

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Ok solved it myself! I was not really looking at what was happening I was missing the dependency realpath! I'm running this in a VM of Ubuntu so the solution was apt-get install realpath yep that easy! :)

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Thanks for the feedback! I will add that as a dependency and add a note to the README.

And normally I wouldn't run it with sudo becasue that is an unnecessary risk, but I'm sure you already knew that

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How do you run this, a complete dump of the VOD main menu? Or individual Categories?

I started to write some code to download from the site and then stopped and just started to look for another solution today (this has been an ongoing problem for me) I was sick of downloading each one or streaming it. So my Plex is happy and I'm Happy! :) Thanks for this great software.

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Oh I meant how do you keep your own data as a Video On Demand main download of all at first, then run a cron job to update the total. Or do individual categories like Latest, VODChildren, VODTeenagers, and then update just those via cron jobs. I use plex so I want to download the actual files so I was going the route of the individual category to preserve the space, server load, and time. I have this running on my unRAID server so far I have it working on the main server and adding the files to the shares just beautifully. Can you use multiple --category= in one command?

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No you cannot use multiple categories in a single command. You will have to run the command multiple times. But it's a good idea...

I would do a dump of the categories I want at first, and then run a cron job with --latest. The latest videos will be from all categories though.

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Cool thanks! I got it running the way I want, I was hoping that the --latest did that!

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