NET Bible Web Service (API)

If you want to use the NET Bible text in your web application or service, this is the the easiest way.

The base URL for all GET requests is: http://labs.bible.org/api/?

Verse Formats

The verses being requested are passed with the GET parameter passage= See below for some samples.

• John 3:16 - Single verse
• John 3:16-17 - Range of verses
• John 3:16-17;John 1:1 - Multiple single verses and/or ranges, all separated by semi-colons
• John 3:16-17; 5:8

Example: http://labs.bible.org/api/?passage=John+3:16-17

Text Formatting Options

Use the GET parameter formatting= to specify the type of formatting you would like your text to have (example http://labs.bible.org/api/?passage=Lk%202:1;%204:4&formatting=full)

• formatting=full - this has all paragraph, bold, italics, and note tags
• formatting=para - this returns text with just paragraph and bold tags
• formatting=plain this returns just text, not html or html entities.
• Not setting the formatting var will result in the text being returned with just bold tags

Return Type (XML, Text, JSON)

You can specify the type of the returned text with the GET parameter type=
Possible types are:

• text
• xml
• json

If no type is passed, type=text will be used.

Use of the NET Bible API Must agree with the NET Bible Copyright

If you use the API and/or come up with code examples, please share to benefit the community. You can email these and we will post them on this site.