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LectServe vs Non-Working Days
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.
icsdb is an open-data repository of pre-built .ics calendar files enumerating official non-working days for France (and its overseas territories), Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, the UK's home nations, and the US, maintained on GitHub rather than served through a query API. Consumers fetch the raw .ics files directly off raw.githubusercontent.com (which serves them with open CORS) and import them into any calendar tool or icalendar-parsing library; there's no key, rate limit, or cost, but the project itself has had no commits since 2020.
| LectServe | Non-Working Days | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON, HTML | ICS |
| CORS | yes | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
LectServe supports 2 response formats, while Non-Working Days offers fewer — pick LectServe for more integration flexibility.