Quran-api API

Overview

Measurement Record

What actually happened when we called this API from our own infrastructure. Every value below was recorded by the request, not copied from the provider's documentation.

Request

GET https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@1/editions.json

Result

HTTP 200 · application/json · 239,987 bytes · compressed

Response time

43 ms (median of 3) · fastest 42 ms

Transport

TLSv1.3 · TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 · certificate issued by Sectigo Limited

Browser CORS

Allowed — Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

Served by

cloudflare

Recorded

2026-08-10

Available Data

The kind of data this API exposes, based on its documentation. We could not call the endpoint to confirm the exact field names.

Captured Response

Captured from a real request to https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@1/editions.json on 2026-08-10. Long arrays and nested objects are truncated to keep the shape readable.

{
  "aar_sheikhmahmoudab": {
    "name": "aar-sheikhmahmoudab",
    "author": "Sheikh Mahmoud Abdel Qader Hamz And Group Of Scholars",
    "language": "Afar",
    "direction": "ltr",
    "source": "https://qurancomplex.gov.sa/",
    "comments": "This translation was OCRed, in case you find any mistakes, let me know at https://bit.ly/33FuNZS",
    "link": "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@1/editions/aar-sheikhmahmoudab.json",
    "linkmin": "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@1/editions/aar-sheikhmahmoudab.min.json"
  },
  "ace_tgkhmahjiddinju": {
    "name": "ace-tgkhmahjiddinju",
    "author": "Tgk. H. Mahjiddin Jusuf",
    "language": "Achinese",
    "direction": "ltr",
    "source": "https://www.islamic-invitation.com/",
    "comments": "This translation was OCRed, in case you find any mistakes, let me know at https://bit.ly/33FuNZS",
    "link": "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@1/editions/ace-tgkhmahjiddinju.json",
    "linkmin": "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@1/editions/ace-tgkhmahjiddinju.min.json"
  },
  "afr_imammabaker": {
    "name": "afr-imammabaker",
    "author": "Imam M. A. Baker",
    "language": "Afrikaans",
    "direction": "ltr",
    "source": "The Islamic Dawah Movement of Southern Africa",
    "comments": "",
    "link": "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@1/editions/afr-ima
…

Implementation Example

Request skeleton. The URL below is this API's documentation page, not a live endpoint — swap in the path you need from the provider's docs before running it.

const url = "https://github.com/fawazahmed0/quran-api";
const response = await fetch(url);
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

url = "https://github.com/fawazahmed0/quran-api"
headers = {}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=30)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()
print(data)

curl "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/fawazahmed0/quran-api@1/editions/eng-translation/chapters/1.json"

What Can You Build?

// Search for books
const query = 'javascript';
const response = await fetch(`https://github.com/fawazahmed0/quran-api#readme`);
const data = await response.json();
const books = data.books || data.items || data.results || [];
books.slice(0, 5).forEach(book => {
  console.log(`${book.title} by ${book.author || book.authors?.join(', ') || 'Unknown'}`);
});

// Fetch book details for a reading list
const response = await fetch(`https://github.com/fawazahmed0/quran-api#readme`);
const data = await response.json();
const readingList = [];
const items = Array.isArray(data) ? data : data.books || [data];
items.slice(0, 10).forEach(book => {
  readingList.push({ title: book.title, author: book.author });
});
console.log('Reading list:', readingList);

// Get book recommendations
const response = await fetch(`https://github.com/fawazahmed0/quran-api#readme`);
const data = await response.json();
const container = document.getElementById('recommendations');
const items = Array.isArray(data) ? data : [data];
items.slice(0, 3).forEach(book => {
  const el = document.createElement('div');
  el.innerHTML = `<h3>${book.title || 'Book'}</h3><p>${book.description || ''}</p>`;
  container.appendChild(el);
});

Note: These code examples are AI-generated and unverified. Always refer to the official API documentation for accurate usage.

How This API Fails

We deliberately sent this API a broken request and recorded exactly what came back on 2026-08-10. Knowing the shape of an error before you hit it makes error handling much easier to write.

Couldn't find the requested file /editions.json/apisscore-nonexistent-path in fawazahmed0/quran-api.

Common Errors & Troubleshooting

Generated guidance based on this API's documentation, not observed by us. Treat it as a starting point and check against the provider's own error reference.