Compare Books APIs
Deep dive into the technical specifications of 23 Books APIs. Use this side-by-side comparison to evaluate which service best fits your architectural requirements.
| API Identity | Score | Authentication | HTTPS | CORS | Speed | Difficulty | Brief |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Bíblia Digital | 69 C Est. | API Key | No | - | Intermediate | A Biblia Digital offers a REST API to access multiple Portuguese Bible versions, chapters, and verse... | |
| Bhagavad Gita | 77 B Est. | API Key | Yes | - | Intermediate | The Bhagavad Gita API provides structured access to all 18 chapters and 700 verses with translations... | |
| Bhagavad Gita | 65 C Est. | OAuth | Yes | - | Advanced | This Bhagavad Gita API from bhagavadgita.io provides OAuth-authenticated access to all chapters and ... | |
| Bhagavad Gita telugu | 87 A Est. | No Auth | Yes | 239ms | Beginner | Bhagavad Gita Telugu API delivers all Gita verses in Telugu and Odia languages with no authenticatio... | |
| Bible-api | 87 A Est. | No Auth | Yes | 241ms | Beginner | Bible-api.com is a free, no-auth REST API that returns Bible verses and passages in multiple transla... | |
| British National Bibliography | 24 F Est. | No Auth | ? | 3070ms | Beginner | The British National Bibliography API exposes Linked Data about books published in the UK and Irelan... | |
| Crossref Metadata Search | 90 A+ Measured | No Auth | ? | 705ms | Beginner | Crossref Metadata Search provides free REST access to bibliographic metadata for over 140 million sc... | |
| Ganjoor | 0 F Est. | OAuth | Yes | - | Advanced | Ganjoor provides programmatic access to classic persian poetry works including access to related man... | |
| Google Books | 63 C Est. | OAuth | ? | - | Advanced | Google Books API lets you search millions of books and retrieve volume metadata including cover imag... | |
| GurbaniNow | 0 F Est. | No Auth | ? | 58ms | Beginner | GurbaniNow provides programmatic access to fast and accurate gurbani restful api via REST API. This ... | |
| Gutendex | 82 A Est. | No Auth | ? | 279ms | Beginner | Gutendex exposes the full Project Gutenberg catalogue—over 70,000 free ebooks—as a clean JSON API. S... | |
| Open Library | 77 B Measured | No Auth | No | 1591ms | Beginner | Open Library is the Internet Archive's book database covering millions of editions, authors, and sub... | |
| Penguin Publishing | 82 A Est. | No Auth | Yes | 645ms | Beginner | Penguin Random House's REST web service lets you query their full catalogue for titles, authors, and... | |
| PoetryDB | 92 A+ Est. | No Auth | Yes | 39ms | Beginner | PoetryDB serves a curated collection of classic English poems via a simple REST API—searchable by au... | |
| Quran | 0 F Est. | No Auth | Yes | 2923ms | Beginner | Quran provides programmatic access to restful quran api with multiple languages via REST API. This B... | |
| Quran Cloud | 95 A+ Measured | No Auth | Yes | 415ms | Beginner | Quran Cloud provides a RESTful API to fetch individual verses (Ayah), chapters (Surah), sections (Ju... | |
| Quran-api | 100 A+ Measured | No Auth | Yes | 78ms | Beginner | This community-maintained Quran API hosts the full Quran text in 90+ languages and 400+ translations... | |
| Rig Veda | 0 F Est. | No Auth | ? | 214ms | Beginner | Rig Veda provides programmatic access to gods and poets, their categories, and the verse meters, wit... | |
| The Bible | 72 B Est. | API Key | ? | - | Intermediate | API.Bible aggregates over 2,500 Bible versions across 1,600+ languages from the American Bible Socie... | |
| Thirukkural | 92 A+ Est. | No Auth | Yes | 38ms | Beginner | Thirukkural API delivers all 1,330 couplets of the ancient Tamil classic Thirukkural with explanatio... | |
| Vedic Society | 0 F Est. | No Auth | ? | 30ms | Beginner | Vedic Society provides programmatic access to descriptions of all nouns (names, places, animals, thi... | |
| Wizard World | 57 D Est. | No Auth | Yes | - | Beginner | Wizard World provides programmatic access to get information from the harry potter universe via REST... | |
| Wolne Lektury | 42 D Est. | No Auth | ? | 2204ms | Beginner | Wolne Lektury is Poland's national digital library API, giving access to thousands of freely availab... |