Bible API

Digital Bible Library (DBL) – United Bible Societies

The Digital Bible Library® (DBL) curates Scripture translation content in a standardized digital format for a larger digital scripture development ecosystem. DBL now hosts a secure collection of over 2000 texts in more than 1400 unique languages. DBL streamlines licensing and access to high-quality, digitized translations by approved ministries, mission agencies, and technology innovators.

ABS BibleSearch API @ API.Bible – American Bible Society (free)

With nearly 1500 Bible versions available across over 1000 languages, API.Bible offers the largest collection of Bibles available. The Bible Search Application Programming Interface (API) allows any developer to include Scripture content and text anywhere in their website or application for non-commercial purposes. Access via XML or JSON requests served over HTTP using RESTful resources.

Digital Bible Platform API – Faith Comes By Hearing (free)

The Digital Bible Platform provides simple API calls for easy access to Bible text, audio, and video in 1000+ languages.

Biblia.com API – Faithlife (free)

Biblia.com API provides Web, mobile, and desktop applications with access to Bible text through web services. Specifically, there are services that get information about the available Bibles, download the text of those Bibles, and search those Bibles. Additional services support validating Bible references, comparing Bible references, and finding Bible references in text and HTML.

ESV Bible Web Service API – Crossway (free for non-commercial use)

API access to the Holy Bible, English Standard Version. The ESV API is available in HTML, plain text, and the XML format used to store the text.

NLT API – Tyndale House Publishers (free for non-commercial use)

API access to the New Living Translation of the Bible

NET Bible’s Bible.org API – NET Bible (free)

API access for using NET Bible text in your web application or service. (html/json/xml)

SWORD Engine API – CrossWire Bible Society’s open source Bible software

RESTful Bible API – more than 7 versions, 5 languages and multiple features to simplify your day to day.

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getBible API

API access to the Bible via Joomla component and JSON. Also, download Bible text in many languages at its GitHub repository, including Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai.

bible-api.com – Sinatra web app that serves RESTful JSON web API for open and public domain Bibles. Repository of public domain and freely licensed Bibles in XML and other standard formats.

jsonBible.com – interprets Scripture reference into more easily parsed format​

SWORD-to-JSON – ​Convert SWORD modules to JSON: Generate json files of many Bible versions

Node.js based Bible API GraphQL web service ​and API RESTful web service