Bible Scraper (bible-api.com) — Verses & Passages, Multiple Translations

Scrape Bible verses and passages straight from bible-api.com and get clean, structured JSON — one dataset item per verse, with book, chapter, verse number, verse text, and translation. No API key, no login, no scraping headaches.

Feed it a list of references — single verses (John 3:16), whole chapters (Psalm 23), or ranges (Genesis 1:1-3) — pick a translation, and export to JSON, CSV, or Excel.

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✨ Features

• 📖 Verses & passages — single verses, full chapters, and verse ranges.
• 🌍 Multiple translations — WEB (default), KJV, ASV, BBE, and more public-domain versions.
• 🧾 One clean item per verse — perfect for datasets, spreadsheets, and NLP.
• 🧹 Cleaned text — newlines collapsed, whitespace normalised, capped at 4000 chars.
• 🔑 No API key / no login — datacenter-proxy friendly, cheap to run.
• ⚡ Fast & batched — concurrent requests in batches of 50.
• 📤 Export anywhere — JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or via the Apify API.

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🚀 Input

Field	Type	Description
mode	select	Scraping mode. Currently passages (one item per verse).
references	array	References to fetch, e.g. ["John 3:16", "Psalm 23", "Genesis 1:1-3"].
translation	string	Translation id: web (default), kjv, asv, bbe, oeb-us, clementine, …
maxItems	integer	Max verses to output (default 500, max 5000).

Example input

{
  "mode": "passages",
  "references": ["John 3:16", "Psalm 23", "Genesis 1:1-3"],
  "translation": "web",
  "maxItems": 500
}

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📤 Output

Each dataset item is a single verse:

{
  "reference": "John 3:16",
  "book": "John",
  "chapter": 3,
  "verse": 16,
  "text": "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.",
  "translation": "World English Bible",
  "translation_id": "web",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-18T00:00:00+00:00"
}

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💰 Pricing

This actor is lightweight and datacenter-friendly. Expect roughly ~$0.5 per 1,000 verses depending on platform usage — a few clicks to scrape whole chapters. You only pay for Apify platform compute; bible-api.com itself is free and key-less.

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🎯 Use cases

• Religious apps — power Bible-verse features, daily-verse widgets, and study tools.
• NLP datasets — build clean, verse-level corpora for language models and analysis.
• Study & reference tools — cross-reference passages across translations.
• Content & publishing — pull verses for newsletters, blogs, sermons, and social posts.

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🆚 Comparison

	Bible Scraper	Manual copy-paste	Raw API calls
Structured per-verse JSON	✅	❌	⚠️ needs parsing
Multiple translations	✅	⚠️	✅
Batch many references	✅	❌	⚠️ DIY
Cleaned text	✅	❌	❌
Export CSV/Excel/JSON	✅	❌	❌
No code required	✅	✅	❌

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🔗 Related actors

• Quran Scraper
• Wikipedia Scraper
• PoetryDB Scraper
• Project Gutenberg Scraper

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⚖️ Legal & data source

Data comes from the free, public bible-api.com, which serves public-domain and openly licensed Bible translations. Please respect the source's terms and use responsibly.

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