Querying Logos Library for Personal Use: API Access or Local Knowledge Base?
Hello, First-time poster here.
I have recently been experimenting with using custom GPTs, creating personal theological tools to better understand the limitations of current LLM models regarding biblical research. The thought occurred that if I was able to query my Logos library for either fine-tuning or as a local knowledge base, it could potentially increase the accuracy and depth of my results.
Has there been any API access or a way to query a logos library strictly for personal use locally?
Personal note: I understand AI can be a divisive topic regarding scripture; I believe that in no way do I see this technology as a tool to avoid or replace a personal relationship with the Lord, meditation, or daily reading. I love the word and experimenting with new ways to interact with it.
I am so thankful for what the Logos team has created, and I have the utmost respect for the product and the hard work it has taken to develop. Apologies if this is an over ask.
Thank you for taking the time to read this,
Kyle
"For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace." John 1:16 | www.kylewinkle.com
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Welcome, Kyle!
Not being helpful, but hopefully others can chime in. I think you'd need to express what you're wanting to do next (ie just query the library, pull resource text, etc)?
Years back a gentleman (who is now with the Lord), wrote apps for us, showing various information in our libraries. If I remember (and I could be wrong), he was going directly against the respective library database (my brain just stopped working; it's the almost-goto for dbs).
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Kyle W said:
Has there been any API access or a way to query a logos library strictly for personal use locally?
While I don't currently have it loaded to test, I believe that the SQLLite Workbench still works to query the Logos databases. There is an API but I've forgotten where the documentation is.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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There's a Logos COM API documented here, but it was created for Logos 4 and I highly doubt it has been added to or tested for backward compatibility since then, so who knows if it still works in recent versions of Logos. I haven't seen any discussion by people using the API since Logos 7, when it was apparently still working. See here.
Given that apparently very few users ever used the Logos COM API, I'm guessing it's one of those orphaned hardly documented never updated features that might one day be deprecated and then eventually removed, over the objections of one or two users. That tends to happen to code Logos no longer wants to finish or maintain...
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Rosie Perera said:
There's a Logos COM API documented here, but it was created for Logos 4 and I highly doubt it has been added to or tested for backward compatibility since then, so who knows if it still works in recent versions of Logos. I haven't seen any discussion by people using the API since Logos 7, when it was apparently still working. See here.
It still works, at least to get a list of all the books installed in Logos. I use it in the program to create a personal index of all the resources in somebody's library - see https://community.logos.com/forums/p/65323/1269034.aspx#1269034 . Since it uses COM technology, it only works in Windows.
Richard Wilson
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