user157: Does anyone know of an API for Buddhist texts along the same lines as this one for the Bible. I do some spare time software projects and I would like to hook up to Buddhist text API just as part of playing around with some new technologies. Currently I'm using the Google Books API for it.
What I'm imaging is that one could make a web request to a URL such as http://buddhisttextapi/dhammapada/verse/12 and you would get back the 12th verse of the dhammapada in whatever translation. So for the technically minded I'm interested in some kind of REST API - preferably under active development or at least with some decent documentation.
Many Thanks 

user295: SC has a API. E.g. : https://suttacentral.net/data?suttas=dn1,dn2
Also see: https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/suttacentral-api-apps/1927/8
Also the data is in Github. E.g. https://github.com/suttacentral/suttacentral-data/blob/master/text/en/pi/su/an/an1/an1.21-40.html 
Similarly you can download the whole Access to Insight website as files: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tech/download/bulk.html

157: <p>Does anyone know of an API for Buddhist texts along the same lines as this one for the <a href="https://bibles.org/pages/api" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bible</a>. I do some spare time software projects and I would like to hook up to Buddhist text API just as part of playing around with some new technologies. Currently I'm using the <a href="https://developers.google.com/books/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Google Books</a> API for it.</p>

<p>What I'm imaging is that one could make a web request to a URL such as <a href="http://buddhisttextapi/dhammapada/verse/12" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://buddhisttextapi/dhammapada/verse/12</a> and you would get back the 12th verse of the dhammapada in whatever translation. So for the technically minded I'm interested in some kind of REST API - preferably under active development or at least with some decent documentation.</p>

<p>Many Thanks </p>
 295: <p>SC has a API. E.g. : <a href="https://suttacentral.net/data?suttas=dn1,dn2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://suttacentral.net/data?suttas=dn1,dn2</a></p>

<p>Also see: <a href="https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/suttacentral-api-apps/1927/8" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/suttacentral-api-apps/1927/8</a></p>

<p>Also the data is in Github. E.g. <a href="https://github.com/suttacentral/suttacentral-data/blob/master/text/en/pi/su/an/an1/an1.21-40.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/suttacentral/suttacentral-data/blob/master/text/en/pi/su/an/an1/an1.21-40.html</a> </p>

<p>Similarly you can download the whole Access to Insight website as files: <a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tech/download/bulk.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tech/download/bulk.html</a></p>
