Advice for Sourcing Local Audio for Yomichan

[CalculusAce]

I wanted to see if you may be able to provide some advice for implementing a server for Yomichan audio that will work with content stored locally? I have a large number of local audio files that are already in base64 (it's stored in json as word : base64 audio), but I am not sure how to source them for Yomichan and facilitate playback. Is it possible to work with local content, or is it required to setup a web server to host the audio? Any input you may have on this would be very much appreciated.

Thanks!

[cyphar]

Have you tried using the file:/// schema as a source? Ultimately, since you need to have a small web server running locally to respond to Yomichan's requests, you can just pass the file contents directly anyway.

[jamesnicolas]

Not sure how helpful this is to you given how much time has passed but I'll answer anyway incase someone stumbles upon this.

First, I tried using file:/// with no luck. But cyphar is right that you still need a web server for Yomichan to communicate with. I just tested serving local audio with my web server with a separate route that just hardcoded the filename. So inside the do_GET function of a http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler

with open('my_audio.mp3', 'rb') as f:
    self.wfile.write(f.read())
    return

You mentioned that your files are saved in a json file encoded in base64 strings. So maybe for you the code would look more like

# get term from query parameter
with open('my_files.json', 'r') as f:
    files = json.load(f)
    self.wfile.write(base64decode(files[term])))
    return

[Aquafina-water-bottle]

In case anyone was looking for a local audio add-on, there's one here: https://github.com/themoeway/local-audio-yomichan (disclaimer: I'm the main contributor)