GurbaniNow vs Rig Veda

Keyless JSON API serving Sikh Gurbani scripture — full-text search across Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, Sri Dasam Granth, and several other granths, the daily Hukamnama, and Gurmukhi/transliteration conversion utilities, all backed by a Cloudflare-fronted CDN for low-latency global access. Any data returned is licensed CC BY-NC-ND, so commercial reuse or redistribution needs separate permission from the GurbaniNow team.

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.