EzerWeb Daily Catholic Rosary Prayers

Description

Daily Rosary automatically shows the correct Rosary for the current day using the free Rosary API:

• Mystery set (Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious or Luminous)
• Liturgical season
• Full date and day of the week
• Embedded audio player (MP3)
• YouTube video embed

Supports multiple languages via the lang attribute (e.g., lang="fr").

Available Shortcodes

Shortcode
Description

[daily_rosary]
Full card (mystery + season + audio + YouTube)

[daily_rosary_info]
Mystery + Season + Date only (no media)

[daily_rosary_mystery]
Mystery name only

[daily_rosary_season]
Liturgical season only

[daily_rosary_date]
Date + Day only

[daily_rosary_audio]
Audio player only

[daily_rosary_video]
YouTube video only

Examples
[daily_rosary]
[daily_rosary lang=”fr”]
[daily_rosary_audio lang=”fr”]
Today we pray the [daily_rosary_mystery] in the season of [daily_rosary_season].

The data is cached until midnight so the API is only called once per day.

External services

This plugin connects to external third-party services and APIs to fetch daily Rosary content and display embedded media:

1. The Rosary API (the-rosary-api.vercel.app)

   • Purpose: Used to retrieve today’s liturgical Rosary information, including current mystery, liturgical season, audio player links, and YouTube video IDs.
   • Data Sent & When: Sends an HTTP GET request to https://the-rosary-api.vercel.app/v1/today (English) or https://the-rosary-api.vercel.app/v1/dujour (French) whenever a shortcode page is loaded and data is not cached locally. No personal user data or IP addresses are logged or sent by this plugin.
   • Terms & Privacy:
     • Terms of Service: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/erickouassi/The-Rosary-Api/refs/heads/main/TERMS.md
     • Privacy Policy: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/erickouassi/The-Rosary-Api/refs/heads/main/PRIVACY.md

2. YouTube (Google LLC)

   • Purpose: Used to embed the daily Rosary video player iframe inside shortcodes ([daily_rosary] and [daily_rosary_video]).
   • Data Sent & When: Loads an iframe directly from https://www.youtube.com/embed/ whenever a visitor views a page containing the video player shortcodes. YouTube may collect visitor IP addresses, browser details, and set third-party cookies according to Google’s policies.
   • Terms & Privacy:
     • Terms of Service: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms
     • Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy