jitenbot/README.md

# jitenbot
Jitenbot is a program for scraping Japanese dictionary websites and
compiling the scraped data into compact dictionary file formats.

### Supported Dictionaries
* Web Dictionaries
  * [国語辞典オンライン](https://kokugo.jitenon.jp/) (Jitenon Kokugo)
  * [四字熟語辞典オンライン](https://yoji.jitenon.jp/) (Jitenon Yoji)
  * [故事・ことわざ・慣用句オンライン](https://kotowaza.jitenon.jp/) (Jitenon Kotowaza)
* Monokakido (["辞書 by 物書堂"](https://www.monokakido.jp/ja/dictionaries/app/))
  * [新明解国語辞典 第八版](https://www.monokakido.jp/ja/dictionaries/smk8/index.html) (Shinmeikai 8e)
  * [大辞林 第四版](https://www.monokakido.jp/ja/dictionaries/daijirin2/index.html) (Daijirin 4e)

### Supported Output Formats

* [Yomichan](https://github.com/foosoft/yomichan)
* MDict (.MDX & .MDD)

# Examples

<details>
  <summary>Jitenon Kokugo (web | yomichan)</summary>
  
  ![jitenon_kokugo](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8003332/236656018-631aae07-55fa-4f27-ba53-18952cf01b90.png)
</details>

<details>
  <summary>Jitenon Yoji (web | yomichan)</summary>
  
  ![yoji](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8003332/235578611-b89bf707-01a7-4887-a4d3-250346501361.png)
</details>

<details>
  <summary>Jitenon Kotowaza (web | yomichan)</summary>
  
  ![kotowaza](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8003332/235578632-f33ea8fa-8d5f-49f9-bc78-6bff7b6bf9c9.png)
</details>

<details>
  <summary>Shinmeikai 8e (print | yomichan)</summary>
  
  ![smk8](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8003332/235578664-906a31bb-ee75-4c25-becc-37968dc2eab6.png)
</details>

<details>
  <summary>Daijirin 4e (print | yomichan)</summary>
  
  ![daijirin2](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8003332/235578700-9dbf4fb0-0154-48b5-817c-8fe75e442afc.png)
</details>

<details>
  <summary>Various (GoldenDict)</summary>
  
  ![goldendict](https://github.com/stephenmk/jitenbot/assets/8003332/76104cbf-845d-4e18-8b78-3ee3ebbf4da6)
</details>

# Usage
```
usage: jitenbot [-h] [-p PAGE_DIR] [-m MEDIA_DIR] [-i MDICT_ICON]
                [--no-yomichan-export] [--no-mdict-export]
                {jitenon-kokugo,jitenon-yoji,jitenon-kotowaza,smk8,daijirin2}

Convert Japanese dictionary files to new formats.

positional arguments:
  {jitenon-kokugo,jitenon-yoji,jitenon-kotowaza,smk8,daijirin2}
                        name of dictionary to convert

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p PAGE_DIR, --page-dir PAGE_DIR
                        path to directory containing XML page files
  -m MEDIA_DIR, --media-dir MEDIA_DIR
                        path to directory containing media folders (gaiji,
                        graphics, audio, etc.)
  -i MDICT_ICON, --mdict-icon MDICT_ICON
                        path to icon file to be used with MDict
  --no-yomichan-export  skip export of dictionary data to Yomichan format
  --no-mdict-export     skip export of dictionary data to MDict format

See README.md for details regarding media directory structures
```
### Web Targets
Jitenbot will scrape the target website and save the pages to the [user cache directory](https://pypi.org/project/platformdirs/).
As a courtesy to the website owners, jitenbot is configured to pause for 10 seconds between each page request. Consequently, 
a complete crawl of a target website may take several days.

HTTP request headers (user agent string, etc.) may be customized by editing the `config.json` file created in the
[user config directory](https://pypi.org/project/platformdirs/).

### Monokakido Targets
Page data and media data must be [procured by the user](https://github.com/golddranks/monokakido/)
and passed to jitenbot via the appropriate command line flags.

<details>
  <summary>smk8 media directory</summary>

Since Yomichan does not support audio files from imported
dictionaries, the `audio/` directory may be omitted to save filesize
space in the output ZIP file if desired.

```
media
├── Audio.png
├── audio
│   ├── 00001.aac
│   ├── 00002.aac
│   ├── 00003.aac
│   │   ...
│   └── 82682.aac
└── gaiji
    ├── 1d110.svg
    ├── 1d15d.svg
    ├── 1d15e.svg
    │   ...
    └── xbunnoa.svg
```
</details>

<details>
  <summary>daijirin2 media directory</summary>

The `graphics/` directory may be omitted to save space if desired.

```
media
├── gaiji
│   ├── 1D10B.svg
│   ├── 1D110.svg
│   ├── 1D12A.svg
│   │   ...
│   └── vectorOB.svg
└── graphics
    ├── 3djr_0002.png
    ├── 3djr_0004.png
    ├── 3djr_0005.png
    │   ...
    └── 4djr_yahazu.png
```
</details>

# Attribution
`Adobe-Japan1_sequences.txt` is provided by [The Adobe-Japan1-7 Character Collection](https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/Adobe-Japan1).