DailyGod™

Bible API

A free, read-only multilingual Bible API. Currently serving BSB (English, public domain) and the Korean Daily Version (KDV); Japanese, Vietnamese, Mongolian, and Thai are being added as they pass review. Free with an API key and a generous daily limit.

Base URL: https://dailygod.org/v1

Your API keys

Authentication

Send your key in the X-API-Key header on every request.

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://dailygod.org/v1/bsb/JHN/3/16

Missing/invalid/inactive key → 401. Over your daily limit → 429 (resets 00:00 UTC).

CORS is open (*). Keys used in client-side code are visible to users — treat them as public identifiers for usage, not secrets.

Endpoints

GET /v1/translationsList translations + licenses

GET /v1/{t}/books66 books { osis, name, chapters }

GET /v1/{t}/{book}/{chapter}All verses in a chapter

GET /v1/{t}/{book}/{chapter}/{verse}A single verse

GET /v1/{t}/passage?ref=John 3:16-18A reference range

{t} is bsb or daily (alias kdv). {book} is an OSIS code (GEN, PSA, JHN…). Add ?footnotes=true to include KDV footnotes. New language editions appear in GET /v1/translations as they pass review.

The KDV returns only approved (live) text. Untranslated verses come back with "text": null, "translated": false — they do not fall back to English.

Examples

cURL

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" "https://dailygod.org/v1/daily/JHN/3?footnotes=true"

JavaScript

const r = await fetch("https://dailygod.org/v1/bsb/passage?ref=" + encodeURIComponent("John 3:16-18"), {
  headers: { "X-API-Key": "YOUR_KEY" },
});
const data = await r.json();
console.log(data.attribution, data.verses);

Licenses & attribution

bsb — Berean Standard Bible. License: Public Domain (CC0). Attribute as “Berean Standard Bible (BSB), Public Domain”.
daily — Korean Daily Version (KDV). © DailyGod — free to use, copy, and distribute (including commercially) with attribution. You may use, copy, and distribute it (including commercially) with attribution: “Korean Daily Version (KDV) — DailyGod”.

Every API response includes the relevant license and attribution fields.