A python parser to parse bible verse references from a text.

This was originally created to tag resources for building https://marvel.bible.
The script is now modified for general use.

This script is now adapted to become a core utility in UniqueBible.app project.

1. Search for verse references from text file(s)
2. Add taggings on verse references
3. Support books of bible canon and apocrypha
4. Support tagging on chains of refernces, e.g. Rom 1:2, 3, 5, 8; 9:2, 10
5. Support books of one chapter only, like Obadiah 2, Jude 3, 3John 4, etc.
6. Support chapter references [references without verse number specified], e.g. Gen 1, 3-4; 8, 9-10.
7. Support standardisation of book abbreviations and verse reference format.
8. Support parsing multiple files in one go.
9. Support extracting all references in a text. (This feature is especially useful for bulding indexes.)
10. Support tagging on range(s) of verses

BibleVerseParser.py [written with python version 3.6+]

Use "BibleVerseParser.py" together with "BibleBooks.py" & "RegexSearch.py" in the same directory.

Tag a file, where [file] is the filename:

python3 BibleVerseParser.py [file]

Tag all files in a folder, where [folder] is the folder name:

python3 BibleVerseParser.py [folder]

Interactive Mode:

python3 BibleVerseParser.py

e.g. John 3:16 is tagged as <ref onclick="bcv(43,3,16)">John 3:16</ref>
e.g. John 3:14-16 is tagged as <ref onclick="bcv(43,3,14,3,16)">John 3:14-16</ref>
e.g. John 3:14-4:3 is tagged as <ref onclick="bcv(43,3,14,4,3)">John 3:14-4:3</ref>

Prompting question (1) "Enter a file / folder name here: "
Enter the name of a file, which you want to parse. OR Enter the name of a directory containing files, which you want you parse.

Prompting question (2) "Do you want to standardise the format of all bible verse references? [YES/NO] "
Enter YES if you want to standardise all verse references with SBL-style-abbreviations and common format like Gen 2:4; Deut 6:4, etc.
Any answers other than "YES" [case-insensitive] skip the standarisation.

This bible-verse-parser is available in Dart programming language.
https://github.com/eliranwong/DartBible/blob/master/lib/BibleParser.dart

Copy files "bible-verse-parser.py" and "dictionary-for-testing.txt" and put in the same folder
(Remarks: "dictionary-for-testing.txt" is the Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary in plain text format)
(bible-verse-parser.py is used here to add taggings for bible verse references.)

Enter command in terminal: python bible-verse-parser.py
"Enter a file / folder name here: " dictionary-for-testing.txt
"Do you want to standardise the format of all bible verse references? [YES/NO] " YES
You can find the output file in the same folder named as "output_dictionary-for-testing.txt"

Source: https://github.com/billmounce/dictionary/blob/master/dictionary.txt

Attribution:
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Copyright 1993 All Rights Reserved
www.teknia.com/greek-dictionary