yassa9 / bible-ar-random-verse

Getting Holy Bible ( New Testament ) random verse within a notification in i3wm

Bible-ar-random-verse

Getting Holy Bible ( New Testament ) random verse within a notification in i3wm

Verses full text is got by Bible database from WordofGOD

It downloaded with a huge database, choose AVD arabic Van Dyke edition.

Then the downloaded .json file is formatted into .txt file with 3 columns: the verse, book name, chapter & verse number

After that, the process of coding python file to read a random line from 23145 ( 1st verse in Matthew book in new testament ) to line 31103 ( obviously the last ) , however you can edit it to 1 ~ 31103 to read both old & new testaments.

Also the python script when called, it writes the verse number into CSV file, and then being ordered in verseord.csv file so you can trace most randomly viewed verses.

I used notify-send package in pacman package manager to parse the verse in it, calculated timeout of the notification based on length of the verse, you can freely adjust it.

Finally I editied my i3blocks config file to make the notification pops out when I press on i3blocks desired label by adding:

[separator]
[name]
command=echo "Random Verse"; i3-msg exec python3 [YOUR_PATH]/main.py
interval=once

Notification example: