The previous change left video_date out because the column does not say what the video
IS. Establishing it took measurement, and the first samples were misleading. Three
video-only filesets all rendered ...S2DV pages opening on "Intro & Garden of Eden" with
Drama/Non-Drama controls, which suggested one Old Testament series. Reading
GET /api/bibles/<bible_id>, which returns the exact books array in one call, for all
1,669 video languages says otherwise:
209 27 parts, Matthew to Revelation (the whole New Testament)
116 27 parts, San Mateo to Apocalipsis (same, Spanish editions)
110 12 parts, Intro & Garden of Eden ... (Covenant, Old Testament)
27 Mark 26 Acts 23 Luke
1,006 distinct scopes in all
Generalising from three samples would have described the bulk of it exactly backwards.
Every link therefore ships its own scope rather than a shared description, and the 3
languages whose book list could not be read were dropped: an undescribed video is not
shipped.
It is typed "Bible video", never "Film". Film on this map means the JESUS Film, and
bible.is itself treats the two as different - its pages call a separate Arclight
endpoint, /api/arclight/jesus-film/languages?iso=..., to find it. So Bible video lifts a
group off "nothing found", which is true, and contributes nothing to the Scripture+film
tier. 1,666 languages carry it: 287 as their own link reaching 4,375 pins and 5.76bn
people, and 1,379 merged into the Scripture link whose media list now reads "audio,
text, video" instead of advertising half of what the page holds.
Verification for bible.is switched from a body-size heuristic to their own API. The page
answers 200 for any id, so the first version compared body sizes against a shell
measured at run time. That was a heuristic on a number the site controls, and it stopped
working when their WAF began answering HEAD with 403 and a 520-byte body for real and
bogus alike. The run-time calibration caught exactly that and ABORTED rather than mark
thousands of links verified - which is the whole reason it was measured and not
hard-coded. The API needs no heuristic: /api/bibles/OKEBSN is 200, /api/bibles/ZZZZZZ is
404. It is a tenth of the weight, it describes the same fileset the page renders, and
GET is used because HEAD is what the WAF blocks.
Also fixed: a fetch with no timeout hung the fetcher for thirteen minutes with no
output. A stall looks exactly like slow work, so every fetch in it now carries a
timeout, and the scope lookups run with bounded concurrency and 403 backoff.
6,404 links screened, 6,557 verified, 74 broken and dropped, 5 uncheckable. Screenshot
read: German shows "Bible video - 12 parts, Intro & Garden of Eden to After the Forty
Years / End Credits" as its own chip, distinct from "Film - link checked".
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