swahili-kjv CLI

A CLI for swahili-kjv. You can use it to translate KJV to swahili.

Dependencies

• mariadb/sqlite
• nodejs v10+

Available Actions

Please be sure to first run sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/swahili-kjv/data and assign the proper permissions. Otherwise commands which write to that directory will fail.

0. Scraping bible.com

scrape -k path-to-key [-s (skip downloading json files already downloaded) -f (force to download html files which have already been downloaded)]

visit link to see result. Although the site is not the real reason for this. We can't to scrape the data from the pages into a db for comparison to aid in translation.

0. Adding index.html for all the versions after step 1

scrapedIndices -k path-to-key

visit link to see result. Although the site is not the real reason for this. We can't to scrape the data from the pages into a db for comparison to aid in translation.

1. Downloading KJV Bible

This can be done either by downloading a sword module and putting into a database or by importing the existing database with the kjv text.

in the first case

download [-f overwrite existing database] [-h host -u username -p password] -d dialect (mariadb/sqlite). Defaults to chapter which is the slowest way of doing it and works well on sqlite.

eg swahili-kjv download -m KJV -u user -d mariadb -p password

2. Listing

You can list books, chapters in books, verses in chapters.

To list books: list

To list chapters in a book: list shortBookName

To list verses in chapter: list shortBookName chapter

3. Download Swahili Versions

Swahili versions from bible.com. You can check the versions at swahili bible versions

1. BHN - Biblia Habari Njema
2. BHND - Biblia Habari Njema
3. BHNTLK - Biblia Habari Njema: Toleo la Kujifunza
4. NEN - Neno: Bibilia Takatifu 2014
5. SRUV - Swahili Revised Union Version
6. SRUVDC - Swahili Revised Union Version
7. SUV - Swahili Union Version
8. TKU - Agano Jipya: Tafsiri ya Kusoma-Kwa-Urahisi

swahili-kjv downloadfrommybible -m SUV{etc}
find SUV{etc}/* -size  0 -print -delete   ## run in /usr/share/swahili-kjv/data to delete zero size files in downloaded folder
swahili-kjv download -m SUV{etc} ## download missing files (if any)

4. extract from downloaded Swahili Versions

If the downloaded pages in 3 are very big, you may have moved them to a different drive. In that case remember to supply the path as below

swahili-kjv extractfrommybible -m BHN -f "/path/to/dir/containing/downloaded/bibles" -u user -p password -d mariadb

Else you can ignore the path, as:

swahili-kjv extractfrommybible -m BHN -u user -p password -d mariadb

5. Translating

translate [-b book -c chapter -v verse -u user -p password -d dialect]

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