Welcome to Sefaria's Technical Documentation

Please note: For our API Documentation, see Getting Started With The Sefaria API.

This section is home to Sefaria's continuously evolving documentation, offering insights into the intricate structure of texts in the Sefaria Library, as well as related technical aspects such as formatting and accessibility. It also includes documentation of API endpoints that go beyond the API reference, providing you with a richer understanding of our powerful platform.

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This is a work in progress.

As we grow our platform and evolve our technology, we also update and improve our documentation. Looking for something you can't find? Contact us and let us know! We'd love to hear from you.

Quick Questions and Answers

Need more information before exploring Sefaria's API?

Read through Text References for background information, then head over to Getting Started With the Sefaria API to try retrieving some text.

Interested in the structure of the Sefaria Library?

Explore The Structure of a Book on Sefaria. We recommend examining Index and Versions and the details within The Index Schema closely for clarity.

Looking for additional endpoints beyond the API Reference?

Check out our documentation about the Shape API, Categories API, and Search API: Elastic Search Proxy.

We're here to help!

If you need something you can't find here, feel free to reach out to our engineering team for additional assistance. We look forward to building the future of Torah technology together!