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LectServe vs Nager.Date
LectServe is a one-person hobby project publishing the daily and Sunday Revised Common/ACNA lectionary readings for Protestant and Anglican churches, with morning/evening prayer citations linked out to Bible Gateway. It answers in either shape depending on the path: /today and /date/YYYY-MM-DD return JSON, while a path like /html/daily/YYYY-MM-DD returns a full HTML page meant to be embedded or scraped — and there's no API key, rate limit, or pricing of any kind — it's maintained by its author, Michael Wayne Arnold, as a labor of love alongside his personal site.
Nager.Date is a free, open-source public holiday API covering more than 100 countries, with endpoints for a year's full holiday list, the next public holiday, whether today is a holiday, and country/county metadata — all keyless JSON with no rate limiting. It's maintained on GitHub by a single developer and is popular as the default holiday backend baked into several scheduling and HR libraries specifically because it needs no signup.
| LectServe | Nager.Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON, HTML | JSON |
| CORS | yes | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
LectServe supports 2 response formats, while Nager.Date offers fewer — pick LectServe for more integration flexibility.