Scripture API?

[Russell Allen]

Hi all,

I notice that a number of Bible API services exist. The ESV has a REST API to their translation at esvapi.org  Biblia also have an API at http://api.biblia.com/docs/ NET have one at http://labs.bible.org/api_web_service

Have anyone used these? 

Is there an equivalent simple API to the Crosswire Sword collection or other open resouces? If not, would anyone be interested in a simple REST API to some open licence Bible stuff, for example OEB WEB KJV etc?

Russell

openenglishbible.org

[Weston Ruter]

Greetings, Russell.

Putting together an scripture REST API specification is something we've talked about a lot in the past, but lately no movement has happened on it. There is an old/early draft overview of what the spec could look like: https://github.com/openscriptures/api/wiki/RESTful-URI-Structure

I would think the ESV API would be a good one to model for developing a new API, for lots of existing tools likely already know how to build queries to interface with it. There could be an additional query parameter for specifying the version (OWB, WEB, KJV, etc) but the rest of the parameters could remain the same, that is the ones that are relevant.

I was talking with Crossway to look at the development of an ESV API 3.0 that would be an implementation of our Open Scriptures REST API specification, but this hasn't yet materialized. I'm very keen to see this work move forward, but with recent (happy) birth of my second child, I'm now very much daddy mode.

Cheers,

Weston

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