Books APIs
Access vast collections of books, religious texts, poetry, and literature through these public APIs.Available APIs
| API | Description | Auth | HTTPS | CORS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Bíblia Digital | Do not worry about managing the multiple versions of the Bible | apiKey | Yes | No |
| Bhagavad Gita | Open Source Shrimad Bhagavad Gita API including 21+ authors translation in Sanskrit/English/Hindi | apiKey | Yes | Yes |
| Bhagavad Gita | Bhagavad Gita text | OAuth | Yes | Yes |
| Bhagavad Gita telugu | Bhagavad Gita API in telugu and odia languages | No | Yes | Yes |
| Bible-api | Free Bible API with multiple languages | No | Yes | Yes |
| British National Bibliography | Books | No | No | Unknown |
| Crossref Metadata Search | Books & Articles Metadata | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Ganjoor | Classic Persian poetry works including access to related manuscripts, recitations and music tracks | OAuth | Yes | Yes |
| Google Books | Books | OAuth | Yes | Unknown |
| GurbaniNow | Fast and Accurate Gurbani RESTful API | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Gutendex | Web-API for fetching data from Project Gutenberg Books Library | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Open Library | Books, book covers and related data | No | Yes | No |
| Penguin Publishing | Books, book covers and related data | No | Yes | Yes |
| PoetryDB | Enables you to get instant data from our vast poetry collection | No | Yes | Yes |
| Quran | RESTful Quran API with multiple languages | No | Yes | Yes |
| Quran Cloud | A RESTful Quran API to retrieve an Ayah, Surah, Juz or the entire Holy Quran | No | Yes | Yes |
| Quran-api | Free Quran API Service with 90+ different languages and 400+ translations | No | Yes | Yes |
| Rig Veda | Gods and poets, their categories, and the verse meters, with the mandal and sukta number | No | Yes | Unknown |
| The Bible | Everything you need from the Bible in one discoverable place | apiKey | Yes | Unknown |
| Thirukkural | 1330 Thirukkural poems and explanation in Tamil and English | No | Yes | Yes |
| Vedic Society | Descriptions of all nouns (names, places, animals, things) from vedic literature | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Wizard World | Get information from the Harry Potter universe | No | Yes | Yes |
| Wolne Lektury | API for obtaining information about e-books available on the WolneLektury.pl website | No | Yes | Unknown |
Use Cases
- Build religious study applications
- Create digital libraries
- Develop poetry and literature platforms
- Access book metadata for cataloging systems
- Integrate spiritual texts into educational apps
