Where can I download those bible verses in JSON or XML or SQL formatted file?

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I need to make a site that has Chinese bible verses as well as English bible verses.

Where can I download those in MySQL, XML or JSON format? Can I download them for free? I need NIV version and 和合本 version.

UPDATES: here are examples of site, data I want to make. http://www.o-bible.com/cgibin/ob.cgi?chapter=1&book=gen&version=hb5&version=kjv&version=bbe http://www.o-bible.com/cgibin/ob.cgi?version=hb5&book=mat&chapter=2

The NIV is relatively new, and might be subject to copyright in the US. Bible Study Tools has the NIV, but not as a simple download like lots of sites have for the King James. It also has footnotes in it that might make it more complex to encode. — Joe, Jul 09 '13 at 12:15
Here is a King James Bible in MySQl https://github.com/snowballrandom/kingjamesbible.git — Kyle Coots, Jun 29 '14 at 16:48
@Joe is dead on. There are many copies of copyrighted bibles floating around in source repositories for opensource software that can't be used without permission. See here for example https://www.harpercollinschristian.com/permissions/ — JSON, Dec 19 '17 at 05:36

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 08 '18 at 22:55

Disclaimer: I am the author of below github projects.

Two very good (and complete) sources are:

https://github.com/scrollmapper/bible_databases :

This has many database formats including all three formats you are inquiring of.

https://github.com/scrollmapper/bible_databases_deuterocanonical :

This is a newer continuance of the bible databases, but with secondary books (ie, the Deuterocanonical ones). This is just sqlite at present but easy to convert. It is also based in a Django project.

thanks for this. Do you know how to find the paragraph separator? Are there any? The .JSON file seems to have only verses and chapters? — Erin Walker, Nov 12 '21 at 10:36

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 10 '13 at 09:12

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Below are a couple of sites that have API access to bible text.

http://bibles.org/pages/api - This site has a well-documented API and serve a number of versions. They may have a version that suits your purposes - although NIV is not listed it is mentioned in the API documentation.

http://labs.bible.org/api_web_service - This site has what looks to be a very flexible API that can serve XML, JSON or text.

As for a Chinese language version, the following site has an API in beta but does list Chinese among its many languages:

http://www.4-14.org.uk/xml-bible-web-service-api

answered Jul 10 '13 at 09:12

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Hi, Thanks.
Do you have some source that allow you download it as a zip file or sql file?
– user2409718 Jul 10 '13 at 13:12
I perfer to host it in myself than having to call api, go to other's server. – user2409718 Jul 10 '13 at 13:20
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Then setup a process to call it once. Extract it and load it. – Kermit Jul 10 '13 at 13:53
yea. but i think maybe there are some copyright issue, I will need to answer if some guy ask me for some sort of license or the right to use, publish. I want someone to give me some info. – user2409718 Jul 10 '13 at 14:38
and having a file to download is easier. I look for more answers. – user2409718 Jul 10 '13 at 14:47

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 26 '15 at 21:45

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Should these help you !

Bibles in JSON & XML

Bibles versions in SQL format

answered Feb 26 '15 at 21:45

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Great Resources !!! God bless you for this brother. – EdsonF Mar 09 '15 at 23:10
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Those links are dead. – Suzana Feb 29 '16 at 18:14
I was able to grab the KJV version in JSON and I believe a variety of versions in a SQL dump file https://github.com/phillipsk/Open_Verse – phillipsk May 08 '16 at 00:05

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 16 '17 at 06:42

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https://github.com/godlytalias/Bible-Database also have a good database collection

answered Dec 16 '17 at 06:42

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Don't just dump links; good says nothing. Actually, there is no Chinese version there. – Dec 16 '17 at 11:36

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Jan 31 '21 at 02:14

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This url is allows for searching of multiple formats of the bible.

edited Jan 31 '21 at 02:14

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answered Jan 29 '21 at 00:55

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Where can I download those bible verses in JSON or XML or SQL formatted file?

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