biblesearch-api-js

The American Bible Society has produced this javascript library to ease the use of the Bible Search api (http://bibles.org/pages/api) in web/cordova/phonegap applications. The api (and this library) allow you to easily:

• search the Bible
• locate specific passages
• get information about specific books, chapters, and verses
• do all that in one or more versions
• store nothing locally

In addition ABS manages the version copyright requirements and keeps the textual data up to date with latest changes by the copyright owners/publishers. Use of this library and the api is free to the public for non-commercial use. See http://bibles.org/pages/api for additional information.

Installation

To install this plugin in a cordova/phonegap app, follow the Command-line Interface Guide.

cordova plugin add https://github.com/americanbible/biblesearch-api-js.git

If you are not using the Cordova Command-line Interface, follow Using Plugman to Manage Plugins.

plugman --platform ios --project platforms/ios/ --plugin https://github.com/americanbible/biblesearch-api-js.git

If you want to use this in a non-cordova web app then just include the script appropriately for your application. It can be easily loaded via require.js with no problems, or just add it via a standard script tag wherever you want. The script will create an object at plugins.absBiblesearch (which is normal for phonegap).

You will also need to get a free api key at http://bibles.org/pages/api/signup.

Usage

In your javascript:

var bsearch = plugins.absBiblesearch; // just to make access easier.
bsearch.setKey(/*your API key goes here*/); // just do this once in your app initialization

// at this point you are ready to make api calls.
if (!bsearch.versionsByLanguage('eng-US', function(data) {
    // data will now contain a JSON object.  To see an example of the content see the api documentation.
    for (var i = 0; i < data.response.versions.length; i++) {
        var version = data.response.versions[i];
        alert(version.version + ': ' + version.name);
    }
})) {
    alert('error: ' + bsearch.lastError());
}

API & Key

You can get additional details on the api at http://bibles.org/pages/api.

Comments and Complaints

If you have any issues you can let us know by email at mbradshaw@americanbible.org.

Changelog

v1.0.5 - Fix for ios. Auth header wasn't going through in some cases, so we're going low-tech. Works in ios and safari.

v1.0.4 - Update for cordova v3 plugin architecture.

v1.0.3 - Fix asynchronous credential issue