New ZIM request: All english audiobooks from librivox.org

[knowledge-is-power]

New ZIM request: All english audiobooks from librivox.org

• Website URL: https://librivox.org/
• License: Public domain
• Desired ZIM Title: Librivox (english)
• Desired ZIM Description: complete collection of all english audiobooks on librivox.org
• Desired ZIM Icon –png (URL or attach one): none
• Language (ISO 639-3): eng
• Desired Main Page (homepage, if different from website URL): n/a
• Is this a MediaWiki?: no

As gutenberg.org zim file is already available. i also wanted one for librivox.org, a related public domain project. due to no zim file being available, i scoured the entire internet for something similar but nothing showed up, so here is my request. this is quite a good project for spreading free knowledge inline with kiwix's vision.
i hope this will become available quite soon (i am just very eager to get it).

highly appreciate your work towards spreading free knowledge.
Thank you.

[RavanJAltaie]

Recipe created
https://farm.openzim.org/recipes/librivox_audiobooks_en_all
I'll update the library link once ready

[RavanJAltaie]

@benoit74
The recipe succeeded
https://dev.library.kiwix.org/viewer#librivox_audiobooks_en_all_2024-08
But the searches are not working, I think we need to remove search forms, what do you think?

[benoit74]

The ZIM is not working at all from my experience:

• all book links are targeting the online website, not a resource inside the ZIM, see e.g. https://dev.library.kiwix.org/viewer#librivox_audiobooks_en_all_2024-08/librivox.org/the-little-robinson-of-paris-by-eugenie-foa/, if you open "Preface" it loads a file from the web
• browsing by genre (open any link on https://dev.library.kiwix.org/content/librivox_audiobooks_en_all_2024-08/librivox.org/search%3Fprimary_key%3D0%26search_category%3Dgenre%26search_page%3D1%26search_form%3Dget_results%26search_order%3Dalpha#) is not working

[benoit74]

Zimit cannot work on this website. We need to build some form of scraper to retrieve the audio books and build a custom in-ZIM search probably. Contact needs to be made with project owners to check what could be the appropriate way to get the whole catalog (list of books and their associated audio files).