bible_api

This is a Ruby web app that serves a JSON API for public domain and open bible translations.

Using It

This app is served from bible-api.com, which anyone can use.

With Curl and JQ

→ curl -s https://bible-api.com/John+3:16 | jq
{
  "reference": "John 3:16",
  "verses": [
    {
      "book_id": "JHN",
      "book_name": "John",
      "chapter": 3,
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "\nFor God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.\n\n"
    }
  ],
  "text": "\nFor God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.\n\n",
  "translation_id": "web",
  "translation_name": "World English Bible",
  "translation_note": "Public Domain"
}

With Ruby

→ ruby -r open-uri -r json -r pp -e "pp JSON.parse(URI.open('https://bible-api.com/John+3:16').read)"
{"reference"=>"John 3:16",
 "verses"=>
  [{"book_id"=>"JHN",
    "book_name"=>"John",
    "chapter"=>3,
    "verse"=>16,
    "text"=>
     "\n" +
     "For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.\n" +
     "\n"}],
 "text"=>
  "\n" +
  "For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.\n" +
  "\n",
 "translation_id"=>"web",
 "translation_name"=>"World English Bible",
 "translation_note"=>"Public Domain"}

Hosting it Yourself

If you want to host this application yourself, you'll need a Linux server with Ruby, Redis, and MySQL (or MariaDB) installed. Follow the steps below:

1. Clone the repo:

   git clone https://github.com/seven1m/bible_api
   cd bible_api
   git submodule update --init
   

2. Install the dependencies:

   gem install bundler
   bundle config --local deployment true # optional, but prefered on a server
   bundle install
   

3. Create the database and import the translations:

   mysql -uroot -e "create database bible_api; grant all on bible_api.* to user@localhost identified by 'password';"
   export DATABASE_URL="mysql2://user:password@localhost/bible_api"
   export REDIS_URL="redis://localhost:6379"
   bundle exec ruby import.rb
   

4. Host the app with Passenger

   ... or run bundle exec ruby app.rb if you are just testing.

Copyright

Copyright Tim Morgan. Licensed under The MIT License (MIT). See LICENSE for more info.