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Find Refs

post
https://www.sefaria.org/api/find-refs

Initially designed to find links on websites using Sefaria's Linker, the Find Refs API can identify textual refernces in any arbitrary text that gets sent to it via a structured POST request and returns a response object identifying each located reference including its start and end position within the submitted text.

Body Params
text
object
required

Initially designed for websites, this API expects the text field to contain both a body and a title. When parsing arbitrary text feel free to just use body and pass an empty string '' to title

string
enum
required

Either he or en. If not included, it will default to one based on the number of Hebrew or Latin characters in the body of the text.

Allowed:
Response

Updated 7 months ago

Language
Response 
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application/json
Updated 7 months ago