World religions
List World Religions Texts
Returns every scripture corpus with its religion, translator, year, source, license, and numbering notes. Each text is in the US public domain. urantiaSection names the section of Paper 131, “The World’s Religions”, headed with the religion, or is null when Paper 131 has no such heading. The Bible has its own endpoints under /bible.
GET
/
scriptures
List the world religions texts
curl --request GET \
--url https://api.urantia.dev/scripturesimport requests
url = "https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures"
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'GET'};
fetch('https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"data": [
{
"id": "diogenes-laertius-6-hicks-1925",
"slug": "diogenes-laertius-6",
"religion": "Cynicism",
"title": "Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics",
"translator": "R. D. Hicks",
"year": 1925,
"refPrefix": "DL",
"urantiaSection": "131:1",
"sourceUrl": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers/Book_VI",
"license": "Public domain in the United States",
"divisionLabel": "book",
"unitLabel": "section",
"passageCount": 105,
"refLevels": 2,
"notes": "Book 6 only: the lives and sayings of Antisthenes, Diogenes, Crates, Hipparchia, and the other Cynics. A biography, not scripture."
},
{
"id": "epictetus-3-22-oldfather-1928",
"slug": "epictetus-cynic",
"religion": "Cynicism",
"title": "Discourses 3.22: On the Calling of a Cynic",
"translator": "W. A. Oldfather",
"year": 1928,
"refPrefix": "Epictetus",
"urantiaSection": "131:1",
"sourceUrl": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Epictetus,_the_Discourses_as_reported_by_Arrian,_the_Manual,_and_Fragments/Book_3/Chapter_22",
"license": "Public domain in the United States",
"divisionLabel": "book",
"unitLabel": "section",
"passageCount": 22,
"refLevels": 3,
"notes": "One chapter of the Discourses, as reported by Arrian. Oldfather marks every fifth section, so each passage covers up to five sections, such as 3.22.5-9."
}
]
}{
"type": "https://urantia.dev/errors/not-found",
"title": "Not Found",
"status": 404,
"detail": "Paragraph not found"
}{
"type": "https://urantia.dev/errors/not-found",
"title": "Not Found",
"status": 404,
"detail": "Paragraph not found"
}Response
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List the world religions texts
curl --request GET \
--url https://api.urantia.dev/scripturesimport requests
url = "https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures"
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'GET'};
fetch('https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"data": [
{
"id": "diogenes-laertius-6-hicks-1925",
"slug": "diogenes-laertius-6",
"religion": "Cynicism",
"title": "Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics",
"translator": "R. D. Hicks",
"year": 1925,
"refPrefix": "DL",
"urantiaSection": "131:1",
"sourceUrl": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers/Book_VI",
"license": "Public domain in the United States",
"divisionLabel": "book",
"unitLabel": "section",
"passageCount": 105,
"refLevels": 2,
"notes": "Book 6 only: the lives and sayings of Antisthenes, Diogenes, Crates, Hipparchia, and the other Cynics. A biography, not scripture."
},
{
"id": "epictetus-3-22-oldfather-1928",
"slug": "epictetus-cynic",
"religion": "Cynicism",
"title": "Discourses 3.22: On the Calling of a Cynic",
"translator": "W. A. Oldfather",
"year": 1928,
"refPrefix": "Epictetus",
"urantiaSection": "131:1",
"sourceUrl": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Epictetus,_the_Discourses_as_reported_by_Arrian,_the_Manual,_and_Fragments/Book_3/Chapter_22",
"license": "Public domain in the United States",
"divisionLabel": "book",
"unitLabel": "section",
"passageCount": 22,
"refLevels": 3,
"notes": "One chapter of the Discourses, as reported by Arrian. Oldfather marks every fifth section, so each passage covers up to five sections, such as 3.22.5-9."
}
]
}{
"type": "https://urantia.dev/errors/not-found",
"title": "Not Found",
"status": 404,
"detail": "Paragraph not found"
}{
"type": "https://urantia.dev/errors/not-found",
"title": "Not Found",
"status": 404,
"detail": "Paragraph not found"
}
