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LectServe vs Namedays Calendar
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.
This API looks up which name(s) are celebrated on a given calendar date — or which date a given name falls on — across roughly 40 countries' nameday traditions, via a documented OpenAPI v2 surface (/today, /tomorrow, /yesterday, /getdate) served as JSON. It's a personal open project by its maintainer (Michal Abaline) with no signup, no API key, and no rate limiting, positioned as a lighter keyless alternative to older nameday lookup services.
| LectServe | Namedays Calendar | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON, HTML | JSON |
| CORS | yes | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
LectServe supports 2 response formats, while Namedays Calendar offers fewer — pick LectServe for more integration flexibility.