Bible API

Public API

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We have all the bible verses in our database. And our best Bible API gives easy way to access the data. Note if you are using our public API / quotes from our website an attribution link back to theysaidso.com is required. If you don't want to display attribution please sign up for the private API. Here is the code you can cut and paste to provide attribution.

Please note as announced earlier you need an API Key to use the public free plan.

Attribution

Note if you are using our public API / quotes from our website an attribution link back to theysaidso.com is required. If you don't want to display attribution please sign up for the private API. Here is the code you can cut and paste to provide attribution.


                           <span style="z-index:50;font-size:0.9em; font-weight: bold;">
                                 <img src="https://theysaidso.com/branding/theysaidso.png" height="20" width="20" alt="theysaidso.com"/>
                                 <a href="https://theysaidso.com" title="Powered by bible verses from theysaidso.com" style="color: #ccc; margin-left: 4px; vertical-align: middle;">
                                   They Said So®
                                 </a>
                           </span>
		  

Which will translate to something like this in your webpage. Nothing too big. Just a small token of appreciation from you for our service.


If you are using the paid subscription no attribution is required.

API End Points

The end point for connecting, if you subscribe directly from us use this endpoint.

http://quotes.rest/bible/ 

Authentication

Currently we support API Key based authentication. Please set a request header for standard 'Bearer' token authentication with value of your API key. Alternatively you can also pass api_key= as a request parameter, though we strongly discourage this mode of passing the key.

Formats

Want it in JSON format? Just append .json to the query like below. Alternatively you send a http accept header indicating you expect json response. Mashape by default does this so if you are using Mashape the following is not applicable.

http://quotes.rest/bible/vod.json

Just append .xml to the query to get the result in XML format.

http://quotes.rest/bible/vod.xml

Want it in javascript friendly format. We support JSONP format as well. Append .js to your request.

http://quotes.rest/bible/vod.js

Rate Limit

To maintain our service level we rate limit (10 API calls per hour) our public API usage. If you sign up and use the private api key or any of the supported authentication schemes this limit is increased to according to the service level of your plan.

Bible Verses

Many of our clients requested the same easy to use style API access to bible verses. So here is how you can get bible verses via our API. All the bible API's are public use but rate limited to 10 calls per hour for a client. If you have an API key this limit is raised to 5000 calls / hour.

Verse of the day public ratelimited

http://quotes.rest/bible/vod.json 

Random Verse public ratelimited

http://quotes.rest/bible/verse.json

Random verse with book restriction. The following API will return any random verse from book 3(aka. Leviticus)

http://quotes.rest/bible/verse.json?book=3

Random verse with book & chapter restriction. The following API will return any random verse from book 3(aka. Leviticus) and chapter 2

http://quotes.rest/bible/verse.json?book=3&chapter=2

Subscription plans

Basic
$ 4 .99 /MON
  • 1 API Key
  • 2000 API Calls / Day
  • No Contracts
  • Cancel Anytime
  • Super easy REST API
Premium
$ 9 .99 /MON
  • 1 API Key
  • 6000 API Calls / Day
  • No Contracts
  • Cancel Anytime
  • Super easy REST API
Ultra
$ 24 .99 /MON
  • 1 API Key
  • 24000 API Calls / Day
  • No Contracts
  • Cancel Anytime
  • Super easy REST API
Alternatively you can get a Free API Key for testing or simple basic "Verse of the day" integration needs.