Is there a Bible-to-SMS gateway?

[sylvar]

I'm serious. I would like to be able to text one of the following messages and get the bible verse as a return message:

• mic 6 8


• kjv mic 6 8


• niv mic 6 8


• Micah 6:8


• etc.

For those who don't recognize it (I didn't) --

He has showed you, O man, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.

I'm pretty sure I could write a Perl script (perhaps using Religion::Bible::Reference) that would take this sort of input and translate it into a query against gospelcom.net, and perhaps parse the results to get the verse in question. But I don't know how to set things up so that someone could send text messages to my script and get a response by text message.

Comments

Nice idea!

[spastic-cow.livejournal.com]

I just had this same idea this morning, did some Googling, and wound up here. Any follow up on that perl script?

Re: Nice idea!

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

Nope, I didn't want to get into it until I had a way to work with the SMS part of it. I still don't understand what's needed to send and receive SMS, and it doesn't seem to be free in the slightest, so I can't afford to test it.

If I get a lot of free time, I might work on the non-SMS components of it, but I don't see myself having that much free time for quite a while.