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.. title: Integration with BibleGateway Broken
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.. slug: blog/2019/07/14/integration-with-biblegateway-broken
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.. date: 2019-07-14 23:42:41 UTC
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.. previewimage: /cover-images/integration-with-biblegateway-broken.jpg
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Over the last few days we have received a TON of reports about OpenLP's integration with BibleGateway being broken.
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Users who rely on web Bibles from BibleGateway are telling us that they get an error message whenever they try to
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look up new passages (verses are downloaded from Bible Gateway on an as-needed basis in order to comply with Bible
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translation copyright terms).
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Unfortunately there is no quick fix for this, and because some of the libraries that OpenLP 2.4.6 uses are no longer
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available, we are not able to create new builds for the OpenLP 2.4.x release series. We are investigating other options,
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but we cannot guarantee anything.
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While we are well aware that some bibles available on BibleGateway are not available elsewhere, there are other sources
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for a lot of Bibles, such as `Zefania`_ or from the homepage of Open Song. In both cases do remember to extract the
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zip file before importing. See the `Bibles section`_ of the manual for more details on importing Bibles from other
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sources.
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Alternatively, going to https://www.biblegateway.com/ and copying and pasting the Bible text into a custom slide is
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also an option.
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The only good news here is that the new implementation for web Bibles in the upcoming OpenLP 3.0 release is not
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affected by this, although it is not ready for production use.
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We apologise for the problems people are experiencing. The bad side of using an external service like BibleGateway is
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that when they change something, OpenLP is not built to handle the change, and appears to be "broken". Sadly, there is
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no real way to prevent something like this from happening again.
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.. _Zefania: https://sourceforge.net/projects/zefania-sharp/files/Bibles/
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.. _Bibles section: http://manual.openlp.org/bibles.html
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