Ganjoor vs Rig Veda

REST API behind the Ganjoor open-source classical Persian poetry archive, covering hundreds of poets (Hafez, Rumi, Ferdowsi, and more) with full poem text, biographical metadata, manuscript images, and audio recitations. Every read endpoint (poets, poem categories, verses) is fully keyless; only the write endpoints used by the project's own contributor tools require an OAuth2 bearer token.

Part of Anindita Basu's Indica project, this API fetches structured metadata for every hymn in the Rig Veda Samhita — which mandal and sukta it belongs to, its meter, its poet, and which god(s) it's addressed to — through endpoints like /mandal/{n}, /sungfor/{god}/meters, and /pairs/{god}/{poet}, rather than the hymn text itself. The stored docs URL had moved from a flat /html/rv.html page (now a 404) to a restructured /topics/ path on the same GitHub Pages site; the live backend at indica-1hwj.onrender.com/rv/v3 needs no key and echoed a live Origin header back on both a GET and an OPTIONS preflight. Being a free Render-hosted hobby service, it can take some seconds to wake up from an idle cold start.