Build on MEGA.Bible

Everything on MEGA.Bible is open data, and the URLs are the API. Add .json to almost any page URL and you get the structured data behind it — free, no key, no registration. Cross-origin requests are allowed, so you can call it straight from a browser.

The pattern

Take a page URL and append .json. The public API is read-only.

https://mega.bible/{lang}/{path}.json

Scripture

/{lang}/bible.jsonexample
/{lang}/{translation}.jsonexample
/{lang}/{translation}/{book}.jsonexample
/{lang}/{translation}/{book}/{chapter}.jsonexample
/{lang}/{translation}/{book}/{chapter}/{verse}.jsonexample
/{lang}/compare/{a}/{b}/{book}/{chapter}.jsonexample
/{lang}/search/{translation}.json?q={query}example

Atlas & timeline

/{lang}/places.jsonexample
/{lang}/place/{slug}.jsonexample
/{lang}/people.jsonexample
/{lang}/person/{slug}.jsonexample
/{lang}/timeline.jsonexample
/{lang}/timeline/{era}.jsonexample
/{lang}/event/{slug}.jsonexample

Community articles

/{lang}/article/{slug}.json

Bulk data & downloads

Whole datasets and complete translation texts are available as versioned bulk downloads under /api/v1 — this is version 1, and changes are additive. Downloads

Licenses

Data keeps the license of its source: Scripture texts carry their translation’s license, atlas datasets their upstream licenses, and everything MEGA.Bible originates is CC0. The full list: Sources & licenses