jimbob88 / cr_bible

Separate your bible!

Carriage Return Bible Versifier

This piece of software takes an html bible (generated with Haiola), and converts these to a JSON file of "verses by paragraph".

An example of the output is as follows:

{
  "Genesis": {
    "01": [
      [1, 2],
      [3, 4, 5],
      [6, 7, 8],
      [9, 10, 11, 12, 13],
      [14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19],
      [20, 21, 22, 23],
      [24, 25],
      [26, 27, 28, 29, 30]
    ]
  }
}

This dataset was taken from the World English Bible British Edition (because these Bibles are in the public domain).

Arguments

> python .\main.py -h
usage: main.py [-h] --folder FOLDER --xmlname XMLNAME

A software for getting verse positions by paragraph

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --folder FOLDER, -f FOLDER
                        choose the folder with the bible dataset
  --xmlname XMLNAME, -x XMLNAME
                        select the name of the xml file (don't pass a path)

For example, on the World English Bible British Edition:

> python .\main.py -f .\engwebpb_html\ -x engwebpb-VernacularParms.xml

Other Information

This software has ONLY been tested on the "World English Bible British Edition" because that is the bible I was analysing this text!

How-to

1. Choose a copy of the bible from ebible.org's download page. I personally chose WEBPB.
2. Download the "Zipped mobile HTML" file. For WEBPB this was: engwebpb_html.zip.
3. Note down from this website the ID of your bible:
4. Unzip this folder into a folder with the same name, i.e: .\engwebpb_html
5. Download a copy of CR_bible and extract it to your downloads folder. This created a folder called CR_bible-master for me.
6. Copy this folder to the same directory as CR_bible (the CR_bible-master folder)
7. Open a powershell in this folder (Shift+Right-Click Open PowerShell window here)
8. Execute the following command:

> python .\main.py -f .\<folder including bible>\ -x <bible ID>-VernacularParms.xml

For the WEBP:

> python .\main.py -f .\engwebpb_html\ -x engwebpb-VernacularParms.xml

9. Now you have this JSON, you can use this in your own projects, or you can move the dataset.json file into the same folder as bible-maker and execute the following command:

> python .\main.py -p .\dataset.json -o .\<bible>.txt