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Urantia Papers

Full-text and semantic search over the Urantia Papers

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An agent-friendly API for the Urantia Papers, covering 197 papers and 17,000+ paragraphs with full-text and semantic search, structured content, entities and audio URLs. This sample pulls a random paragraph with its paper and section references. The public GET endpoints need no key.

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Uptime history
73.5%90 days
78.3%30 days
3984P50 · ms
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Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 1476 ms, slowest 4988 ms, most recent 3486 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://api.urantia.dev/paragraphs/random?maxLength=300

{
  "data": {
    "id": "3:92.7.10",
    "standardReferenceId": "92:7.10",
    "paperId": "92",
    "paperTitle": "The Later Evolution of Religion",
    "sectionTitle": "The Further Evolution of Religion",
    "paragraphId": "10",
    "text": "4. The unfettered progress of the personality in this cosmic path of idealistic spiritual living, realization of sonship with God and never-ending progressive citizenship in the universe."
  }
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://api.urantia.dev/paragraphs/random?maxLength=300"
const res = await fetch("https://api.urantia.dev/paragraphs/random?maxLength=300");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://api.urantia.dev/paragraphs/random?maxLength=300")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /paragraphs/random?maxLength=3003984 mschecked 2h ago
GET/paragraphs/random?maxLength=300PROBED

Full-text and semantic search over the Urantia Papers

GET/list

Paginated list of resources.

GET/paragraphs

Paragraphs — documented GET route.

GET/paragraphs/1

Paragraphs details by ID (example: 1).

GET/paragraphs?limit=10

Paragraphs — documented GET route.

GET/paragraphs/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Urantia Papers: common questions

Is Urantia Papers free to use?

Yes — Urantia Papers is a free books & words API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Urantia Papers need an API key?

No — Urantia Papers needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (200 req/window · 199 remaining · resets 1783508497).

Can I call Urantia Papers from the browser?

Yes — Urantia Papers returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is Urantia Papers up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Urantia Papers is healthy with 73.5% uptime over 90 days and a 3984 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.