Books¶
25 free Books APIs — auth type, HTTPS and CORS support for each, so you can pick the right one without opening every docs page.
| API | Description | Auth | HTTPS | CORS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Bíblia Digital | Do not worry about managing the multiple versions of the Bible | apiKey |
Yes | No |
| Amanah Sunnah | Semantic search across Quran, Hadith, Tafsir & 18K+ Rijal narrators | apiKey |
Yes | Yes |
| 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 |
| KDP Intelligence | KDP niche demand scores, competition analysis and revenue estimates | No | Yes | Yes |
| 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 |
| Runyankole Bible | Free REST API for the Runyankore-Rukiga Bible — 66 books, 31106 verses | No | Yes | Yes |
| 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 |
| Urantia Papers | Full-text + semantic search across the Urantia Papers, with audio narration, entities, translations | No | Yes | Yes |
| 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 |
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