Public API
SubscribeWe 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=
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
- 1 API Key
- 2000 API Calls / Day
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- Super easy REST API
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- No Contracts
- Cancel Anytime
- Super easy REST API
- 1 API Key
- 24000 API Calls / Day
- No Contracts
- Cancel Anytime
- Super easy REST API