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liturgical-calendar/alexa-newsbrief
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Liturgy of the Day as an Amazon Alexa skill available for your daily news brief, using the Liturgical Calendar API

v1.0.0(1y ago)02[1 PRs](https://github.com/Liturgical-Calendar/AmazonAlexa-newsbrief/pulls)Apache-2.0PHPPHP >=7.4CI passing

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AmazonAlexa-newsbrief
=====================

[](#amazonalexa-newsbrief)

Liturgy of the Day as an Amazon Alexa skill available for your daily news brief, using the Liturgical Calendar API.

Features
--------

[](#features)

- **PSR Compliant**: Implements PSR-4 (autoloading), PSR-7 (HTTP messages), PSR-16 (caching), PSR-17 (HTTP factories), and PSR-18 (HTTP client)
- **Filesystem Caching**: Optional PSR-16 cache support with configurable TTL (1 week for metadata, 1 day for calendar)
- **Internationalization**: Supports 8 languages via GNU gettext
- **SSML Support**: Speech Synthesis Markup Language for proper pronunciation

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 8.2+
- Composer
- Node.js (optional, for markdown linting)

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require liturgical-calendar/alexa-newsbrief
```

Alexa Skills
------------

[](#alexa-skills)

Three skills are available on the Alexa skill store:

- **Liturgy of the Day (English, USA)**: has four feeds to choose from, according to timezone within the USA. The calendar is the national liturgical calendar for the United States. Available for free on the store here:
- **Liturgia del Giorno (Italiano)**: unico feed con il calendario liturgico nazionale per l'Italia. Disponibile gratuitamente sullo store qui:
- **Liturgia del Giorno - Diocesi di Roma**: unico feed con il calendario liturgico specifico della Diocesi di Roma. Disponibile gratuitamente sullo store qui:

Translation
-----------

[](#translation)

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###  Health Score

29

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LowBetter than 60% of packages

Maintenance58

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity2

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity40

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 52.6% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

584d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Tags

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