Hadith-API

Hadith-API is a RESTful API that provides a simple way to access the hadiths from 17 books of hadiths, including the nine books and others. From hadith-json That was scraped here.

The API written in Node.js using Express.js framework and MongoDB for the database.

API Endpoints

Method	Endpoint	Description	Example
GET	/docs	Get all the endpoints of the API.	/docs
GET	/books	Get all the books in the database.	/books
GET	/book/:id	Get a book with the specified id.	/book/1
GET	/book/:id/chapters	Get all the chapters of the book with the specified id.	/book/1/chapters
GET	/chapters	Get all the chapters in the database.	/chapters
GET	/chapter/:id	Get a chapter with the specified id.	/chapter/1
GET	/hadith/:id	Get a hadith with the specified id.	/hadith/1
GET	/book/:bookId/hadith/:id	Get a hadith with the specified book id and hadith id	/book/1/hadith/1

Before you start

Previously, We scraped the hadiths from the website sunnah.com and stored them in a MongoDB database. You can find the database in the hadith-json repository.

Installation

1. Clone the repository.

git clone https://github.com/a7med3bdulbaset/hadith-api.git

2. Install the dependencies.

# NPM
npm install
# Yarn
yarn install

3. Setup the .env file as the .env.example file.

# The port that the server will run on.
PORT=3500 # Change it if conflict with another port.

# The MongoDB connection string. 
MONGODB_URI=mongodb+srv://<USERNAME>:<PASSWORD>@<DATABASE>.mongodb.net/?retryWrites=true&w=majority

To get the MONGODB_URI, You need to store the database from the hadith-json repository in MongoDB Atlas. Then, get the connection string from the Atlas dashboard.

4. Compile the TypeScript code.

# NPM
npm run build
# Yarn
yarn build

5. Start the server.

# NPM
npm start
# Yarn
yarn start

This will run the server on http://localhost:3500. You can change the port in the .env file.

6. Dev server.

# NPM
npm run dev
# Yarn
yarn dev