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Free Books APIs[023]

23 free public APIs in the Books category — 17 require no authentication, 23 support HTTPS, 14 have CORS enabled.

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A Bíblia Digital

Do not worry about managing the multiple versions of the Bible

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Bhagavad Gita

Bhagavad Gita text

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Bhagavad Gita telugu

Bhagavad Gita API in telugu and odia languages

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Bible-api

Free Bible API with multiple languages

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Big Book

The Big Book API allows you to semantically search, filter, sort, and recommend books

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Crossref Metadata Search

Books & Articles Metadata

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Ganjoor

Classic Persian poetry works including access to related manuscripts, recitations and music tracks

AUTH: OAUTHHTTPSOPEN ↗
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Google Books

Books

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Gutendex

Web-API for fetching data from Project Gutenberg Books Library

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Harry Potter

API to get data from Harry Potter books, movies and characters

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Holy Bible API

Free Bible API serving 800+ text translations and 40+ audio translations

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Library Management

Manage users, books, authors, loans and reviews

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Open Library

Books, book covers and related data

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Penguin Publishing

Books, book covers and related data

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PoetryDB

Enables you to get instant data from our vast poetry collection

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Quran

RESTful Quran API with multiple languages

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Quran-api

Free Quran API Service with 90+ different languages and 400+ translations

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Quran Cloud

A RESTful Quran API to retrieve an Ayah, Surah, Juz or the entire Holy Quran

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Stephen King

The varied works and characters of the prolific author Stephen King

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The Bible

Everything you need from the Bible in one discoverable place

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Thirukkural

1330 Thirukkural poems and explanation in Tamil and English

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Wizard World

Get information from the Harry Potter universe

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Wolne Lektury

API for obtaining information about e-books available on the WolneLektury.pl website

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What are the best free Books APIs?

The directory tracks 23 free public Books APIs. Top picks include A Bíblia Digital, Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavad Gita telugu, Bible-api, Big Book — see the full list above, all free to use.

Are there free Books APIs without authentication?

17 of 23 Books APIs require no authentication and can be used immediately without an API key.

Do these APIs support HTTPS?

23 of 23 Books APIs support HTTPS.