Books APIs

A Biblia Digital offers a REST API to access multiple Portuguese Bible versions, chapters, and verses in structured JSON format.

The Bhagavad Gita API provides structured access to all 18 chapters and 700 verses with translations from 21+ authors in Sanskrit, English, and Hindi.

This Bhagavad Gita API from bhagavadgita.io provides OAuth-authenticated access to all chapters and verses with English commentary and multiple translations.

Bhagavad Gita Telugu API delivers all Gita verses in Telugu and Odia languages with no authentication required.

Bible-api.com is a free, no-auth REST API that returns Bible verses and passages in multiple translations using a simple URL pattern.

The British National Bibliography API exposes Linked Data about books published in the UK and Ireland, including titles, authors, ISBNs, and subject classifications.

Crossref Metadata Search provides free REST access to bibliographic metadata for over 140 million scholarly articles, books, and conference papers indexed by DOI.

Ganjoor provides programmatic access to classic persian poetry works including access to related manuscripts, recitations and music tracks via REST API.

Google Books API lets you search millions of books and retrieve volume metadata including cover images, descriptions, and preview links from Google's vast book index.

GurbaniNow provides programmatic access to fast and accurate gurbani restful api via REST API.

Gutendex exposes the full Project Gutenberg catalogue—over 70,000 free ebooks—as a clean JSON API.

Open Library is the Internet Archive's book database covering millions of editions, authors, and subjects.

Penguin Random House's REST web service lets you query their full catalogue for titles, authors, and ISBNs.

PoetryDB serves a curated collection of classic English poems via a simple REST API—searchable by author, title, or first line.

Quran provides programmatic access to restful quran api with multiple languages via REST API.

Quran Cloud provides a RESTful API to fetch individual verses (Ayah), chapters (Surah), sections (Juz), or the complete Quran text with multiple audio recitations and translations.

This community-maintained Quran API hosts the full Quran text in 90+ languages and 400+ translations as static JSON files on GitHub CDN—no rate limits, no key needed.

Rig Veda provides programmatic access to gods and poets, their categories, and the verse meters, with the mandal and sukta number via REST API.

API.Bible aggregates over 2,500 Bible versions across 1,600+ languages from the American Bible Society.

Thirukkural API delivers all 1,330 couplets of the ancient Tamil classic Thirukkural with explanations in both Tamil and English.

Vedic Society provides programmatic access to descriptions of all nouns (names, places, animals, things) from vedic literature via REST API.

Wizard World provides programmatic access to get information from the harry potter universe via REST API.

Wolne Lektury is Poland's national digital library API, giving access to thousands of freely available Polish literary works including full texts, author data, and cover images.