bahai-reflib-data

bahai-reflib-data

This project aims to host information on the official Bahá'í Reference Library website, in particular its unique identifiers, and host scripts for obtaining and processing those IDs, such as to map them to paragraph number.

Note that although this uses data from the Bahá'í Reference Library, this is just an individual effort not related to the site.

Per https://bahai-library.com/uhj_additional_tablets_urls, it seems that the URLS hosted on https://bahai.org/library may now be permanent, and it is hoped that since the paragraphs are not transparent, that the IDs might be permanent as well.

One bit of info: typing https://bahai.org/r/[ID] and replacing [ID] with the unique ID will redirect to the URL and potentially anchor that it targets.

A server is available via bahai-reflib-data-server.

Development

• npm i -g pnpm (If you don't have it installed already)
• pnpm i (Install dependencies)
• pnpm build-data followed by any of these optional arguments (though choosing at least one): mainCollections, collections, works, sections, paragraphIdInfo to run the (throttled) downloading and saving of the information

To-dos

• Fix apparent bug with Kitáb-i-Aqdas not gathering paragraphs

Possible to-dos

• Gather mini-sections (ensure talks are included)
• Waiting: Once ready, add the Arabic or any other languages added later (The Arabic has not been ported to the new site.) Should just need to populate the allLanguages array. (We could scrape "Other languages" from https://www.bahai.org/library/ but no telling if that structure will stay the same.)
• RSS feed for new additions to the library (based on a date-detected field)

Changelog

0.16.0

BREAKING CHANGES:

• Requires Node 18+; browser targets now: defaults, not op_mini all

• feat: update data

• chore: update devDeps.