Pontifex Archive

Read a comprehensive collection of papal documents and church writings.

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Structures

• /app - This is the flutter app. Basically an epub reader.
• /api - This is a static api used through the Github Pages.
  • /popes.json - This file is almost totally created and updated manually, has the Popes informations and the pope documents.
  • /covers/*.png - Has non-offical covers for documents.
  • /data/[language]/*.json - These files are the document snapshot extracted from vatican website, the scraper script try to detect some document parts as notes, pope signature, chapters, etc to create a better document to read.
• /epub_builder - A python package, using poetry, to web scrape the vatican website and create a epub.