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NPM URL: https://www.npmjs.com/package/japanese-db

GitHub URL: https://github.com/echamudi/japanese-toolkit/tree/master/packages/japanese-db

Japanese DB Maker

Japanese language resources database maker from various open source materials.

Usage

1. Download required materials

   • Download JMdict_e.gz from http://www.edrdg.org/jmdict/edict_doc.html.
   • Download JMnedict.xml.gz from https://www.edrdg.org/enamdict/enamdict_doc.html.
   • Download kanjidic2.xml.gz from http://www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/KANJIDIC_Project.

2. Extract all the files and create folder structure as follow:

   myJpProject/
   ├── sourceFolder/
   │   ├── JMdict_e
   │   ├── JMnedict.xml
   │   └── kanjidic2.xml
   └── destinationFolder/
       └── (empty)

   The file names must be the same as above.

3. Open myJpProject folder in terminal.

4. Run following commands

   npm install japanese-db-maker -g
   japanese-db-maker sqlite -s ./sourceFolder -d ./destinationFolder

5. If it runs successfully, you'll get the result as japanese.db inside destinationFolder folder.

Development

Testing

npm link .
npm test

Acknowledgment

The generated database file contains data from following sources.

• JMdict https://www.edrdg.org/jmdict/edict_doc.html
• JMnedict http://www.edrdg.org/enamdict/enamdict_doc.html
• KANJIDIC Project http://www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/KANJIDIC_Project
• Wanikani Audio https://github.com/tofugu/japanese-vocabulary-pronunciation-audio
• KanjiVG https://github.com/KanjiVG/kanjivg
• Kanji https://github.com/echamudi/kanji

Authors

• Ezzat Chamudi - echamudi

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

Copyright © 2020 Ezzat Chamudi

Japanese DB Maker code is licensed under MPL-2.0. Images, logos, docs, and articles in this project are released under CC-BY-SA-4.0.

Libraries, dependencies, and tools used in this project are tied with their licenses.