# The Holy Bible – Open Source REST API

28 Comments

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  Senaga

  December 27, 2023 at 2:01 pm

  Big man. Please is there anyway I can add translation to the bible search, that is when someone wants to search the bible how can I modifify the API to accept translation?

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  Alicia

  December 20, 2023 at 12:10 pm

  Thank you for this. My unfinished project is at https://the-way-417.web.app
  I was using Bible Gateway, but they started forcing ads even on the printer-friendly version. This is a hobby for me, and I couldn’t implement the more complicated APIs. My tech stack is Ionic Angular on Firebase, so I have to fight CORS and figure out rxjs or upgrade my entire site to use signals. A year in my code is already deprecated. I look forward to switching to your API from Bible Gateway

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  Festus

  October 25, 2023 at 9:27 pm

  Hi, can we make a query with a “to” verse?
  example John 11vs20to35 (John 11:20-35).

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  Rob

  November 1, 2023 at 11:56 pm

  No not at the moment. This would be a good feature to add though. Please consider creating an issue or pull request

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  Festus

  October 23, 2023 at 6:34 pm

  Hi, Rob, thanks for making this available for free, and without the query limits imposed by other providers. Is there a way I can host this on my own server? to reduce calls to yours, If it’s possible. Thanks once more

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  Rob

  November 1, 2023 at 11:54 pm

  Hey, thanks. Yeah, you can certainly host it yourself – check out this GitHub repository. It’s been a while since I fired it up from scratch, but should work with docker-compose still.

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  Jadon

  August 23, 2023 at 4:35 pm

  Thank you for making this amazing resource. I am making a bible memory application, and this is used for all the verse content. if you want to check out my (still very much beta) App: https://roadsbible.com

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  Rob

  September 4, 2023 at 12:03 pm

  Nice work!

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  Henry

  April 18, 2023 at 9:20 pm

  Regarding my previous question. I resolved it by making the API call from my backend. Thanks Rob.

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  Caleb

  March 20, 2023 at 8:28 pm

  Hey Rob,
  I’ve been working on an app and have been wondering about the licensing side of this. I’ve managed to find an SQLite version of the NIV and the ESV – can I use these in my app?

  How are you licensing the versions you’re making available in the API?

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  Rob

  March 31, 2023 at 11:50 pm

  I have not completed any license agreements. Are there any?

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  Henry

  March 4, 2023 at 1:22 pm

  I am getting cors error. i want to test in my dev env then deploy.

  Access to XMLHttpRequest at ‘https://bible-go-api.rkeplin.com/v1/books/1/chapters/1/1001002?translation=ESV’ from origin ‘http://localhost:3000’ has been blocked by CORS policy: The ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header has a value ‘https://bible-ui.rkeplin.com’ that is not equal to the supplied origin.

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  Steve

  January 19, 2023 at 4:21 pm

  Hey Rob! Thanks for all your work! I am looking at the search feature: https://bible-go-api.rkeplin.com/v1/search?query=%5BSearchTerm%5D, and it looks like it only returns 100 results. Is there a way to remove this constraint on the query? Thanks

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  Rob

  March 31, 2023 at 11:36 pm

  Hey, Steve. Yes, there is an offset and limit parameter that you may use to page through the results.

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  Davidalen Fountain

  January 16, 2023 at 8:09 am

  This is absolutely amazing man. I had this dream of being able to setup a place to do bible study online in the form of SOAP and to share those with friends. To create a place where you can register groups and together do bible study but I was stuck without a good way of implementing scripture. Truly love this!

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  Rob

  March 31, 2023 at 11:37 pm

  Thanks and good luck with your app!

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  Nathan Worrell

  December 2, 2022 at 6:32 pm

  Hey Rob, thank you for providing this awesome resource. You rock! God bless

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  Chris

  March 21, 2022 at 5:11 pm

  for the Rest API is it GET record or Get collection?
  I get the following error.

  Error: TypeError: Failed to fetch. Does the server allow CORS?status: undefined

  Resource settings for Get collection (GET)
  ——————-
  Resource URL: https://bible-go-api.rkeplin.com
  Relative path: /v1/translations

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  Robert

  February 16, 2022 at 8:22 pm

  is there no version without the markdown

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  Rob

  February 18, 2022 at 2:46 pm

  None of the versions return text with markdown

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  Tyler

  January 25, 2022 at 5:25 pm

  Thanks for your work friend! May God’s blessings be upon you and your work.

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  mureithi

  January 12, 2022 at 3:37 pm

  Hey can we get a random verse of the day

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  Rob

  January 18, 2022 at 8:29 pm

  Sorry, no – not with the current API.

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  Eric

  January 7, 2022 at 1:52 am

  I’m having trouble getting this endpoint to work:
  GET https://bible-go-api.rkeplin.com/v1/books/%5BBookID%5D/chapters/%5BChapterID%5D/%5BVerseID%5D

  This works in the browser:
  https://bible-go-api.rkeplin.com/v1/books/1/chapters/1

  response:
  [{“id”:1001001,”book”:{“id”:1,”name”:”Genesis”,”testament”:”OT”},”chapterId”:1,”verseId”:1,”verse”:”In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”},
  …

  but this doesn’t work:
  https://bible-go-api.rkeplin.com/v1/books/1/chapters/1/1

  I get this JSON response:
  {“code”:404,”status”:”Not Found”,”message”:”Item was not found.”}

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  Rob

  January 17, 2022 at 11:56 pm

  You’ll need to use the Verse ID. Try this:

  https://bible-go-api.rkeplin.com/v1/books/1/chapters/1/1001001

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  Andry

  August 28, 2021 at 2:52 pm

  Really love this API! finally found the NIV version,which is pretty rare, I hope you will maintain it!

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  Rob

  January 18, 2022 at 8:27 pm

  Thanks! Glad you found it useful. I hope to maintain it as long as I can.

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  David Daniel

  January 3, 2021 at 7:24 pm

  Hi Kelin,

  Thanks for the API endpoints. Been hunting the web searching for a Rest Resource that does not have a limit on the number of requests/day and at the same time support multiple translations. You project helps.

  Thanks a ton.