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Daily Bible Verse Script

After spending a few minutes looking for a nice, light weight, “Verse of the day” program for Linux, I decided I’d taken too long and wrote my own. :D

It grabs the verse from the Bible Gateway feed and prints it. Very simple. But used in conjunction with something like Zenity, it serves it’s purpose quite nicely. I run mine as a startup program, so it shows it whenever I login.

To use it, simply:

  • Have Zenity and Python 3 installed
  • Add the following command to your startup programs:
    python3 /path.../daily_verse.py | zenity --text-info
  • Non-linux users might want to just run it from a terminal (ignore Zenity)

Download daily_verse.py

Let me know if you have any trouble…

Enjoy! :)

Posted on the 7th July 2009 at 12:55am
In the category: Resources, Scripts
This post was written by a mere human so errors are definitely possible, please let me know if you find any! :)
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3 Responses to “Daily Bible Verse Script”

  1. Alex: (23 Mar 2010, 8:36am)

    I cant do this for Ubuntu.Sorry for my english.help me.

  2. Jon: (23 Mar 2010, 2:10pm)

    Hi Alex, does the script work if you run it in a terminal? Make sure you’ve got Python version 3 installed, and try:

    python3 daily_verse.py

    You might also want to change the feed into Russian: http://www.biblegateway.com/votd/get/?format=atom&version=RUSV

    cheers, Jon

  3. blodgett: (24 Jun 2010, 10:12pm)

    hee! i was thinking of making something like this too, except using xcowsay instead of zenity :D

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