Welcome to Sefaria's Technical Documentation

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

In this section, you will find our continuously evolving documentation, offering insights into the intricate structure of texts at Sefaria, as well as related technical bits such as formatting and accessibility. We also document API endpoints that go beyond the API reference, providing you with a richer understanding of our powerful platform.

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Work-In-Progress

Our documentation is in the process of being updated and improved. We will continue to migrate documentation to this site over the next few weeks. Looking for something you can't find here? Contact us, we'd love to hear from you.

Need a bit more info before jumping into our API?

Read through Text References for a bit of background, and then head over to Getting Started With The Sefaria API to try and retrieve some text.

Want to deep dive into the structure of the Sefaria Library?

Read through The Structure of a Book on Sefaria, and pay close attention to Index and Versions and the details within The Index Schema.

Searching for some additional endpoints beyond the API Reference?

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

If you need something you can't find here, feel free to reach out to our engineering team for additional assistance.

Looking forward to building the future of Torah technology together!