Al-Quran Cloud API
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For Agents
Read Quranic text, translations, transliterations, and audio recitations across multiple editions through 23 unauthenticated endpoints. Useful for agents building study tools, reading apps, or daily-verse delivery.
Use for: Get the text of Surah Al-Fatiha in English, Retrieve Ayat al-Kursi with an English translation, Find every ayah that contains the word 'mercy', Get the audio recitation of Surah Yasin by Abdul Basit
Not supported: Does not host hadith collections, generate AI translations, or provide tafsir commentary — use only for retrieving Quran text, audio editions, and divisions.
Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for Al-Quran Cloud API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. The Al-Quran Cloud API serves the full text of the Holy Quran along with translations, transliterations, and audio recitations across many editions and languages. Its 23 endpoints support retrieval by surah, ayah, juz, manzil, ruku, page, hizb quarter, and sajda, plus keyword search and metadata. The API is open and unauthenticated, making it well suited to mobile apps, study tools, and reading-plan integrations.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the Al-Quran Cloud API to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Al-Quran Cloud API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with Al-Quran Cloud API.
Retrieve a full surah by number with the original Arabic and any chosen edition
Get a single ayah by reference (e.g., 2:255) in the original or a translation
Pull divisions of the Quran by juz, manzil, ruku, page, or hizb quarter
List all sajda ayahs from a specified edition
Search the Quran text and translations for keywords
List all available editions across languages, scripts, and recitation audio
Retrieve metadata (counts of surahs, juzs, pages, etc.) for app navigation
Use Cases
Patterns agents use Al-Quran Cloud API for, with concrete tasks.
★ Daily Verse and Reading Plan Apps
Mobile app developers wire daily-verse and structured reading-plan features off the juz, page, and ayah endpoints. The API serves both Arabic and a chosen translation in one response, so the app can show the original text and its translation side by side without managing the corpus locally.
Call GET /juz/1/quran-uthmani and GET /juz/1/en.sahih in parallel, then assemble each ayah pair into the day's reading plan view.
Quran Study and Search Tools
Study platforms expose keyword search across the original Arabic and translation editions through the /search endpoint, then deep-link results back to the surah/ayah views. Because the API exposes editions for transliteration and translations, the same study session can show meaning, pronunciation, and original text together.
Call GET /search with keyword 'mercy' and edition en.sahih, take the first result's surah and ayah, and call GET /ayah/{reference}/quran-uthmani to retrieve the original Arabic.
Audio Recitation Playback
Listen-along players use the audio editions surfaced by the API to stream recitations by reciter, surah, or ayah. The /edition endpoint lists the available recitation editions, and the surah/ayah endpoints in those editions return URLs to the audio assets, so a player can build a reciter picker without bundling audio metadata locally.
Call GET /edition?format=audio to list available reciters, then GET /surah/36/ar.alafasy to retrieve the audio URL for Surah Yasin.
AI Agent Quran Lookups via Jentic
An AI agent built on Jentic can field questions like 'show me Ayat al-Kursi in English with the Arabic' and resolve them to the right ayah-by-reference call without manual URL construction. Because the API is unauthenticated, no credentials are needed; Jentic still routes the request through its standard execution layer for logging and retries.
Search Jentic for 'get an ayah by reference', load the /ayah/{reference}/{edition} schema, and execute it twice for reference 2:255 with editions quran-uthmani and en.sahih.
Key Endpoints
23 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for al-quran cloud api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
GET
/surah
List all surahs
GET
/surah/{number}/{edition}
Get a surah in a specific edition
GET
/ayah/{reference}/{edition}
Get an ayah by reference in a chosen edition
GET
/juz/{number}/{edition}
Get a juz in a chosen edition
GET
/page/{number}
Get a Quran page by number
GET
/search
Search the Quran text and translations
GET
/edition
List available text and audio editions
GET
/meta
Get Quran metadata (counts of surahs, juzs, pages, etc.)
GET
/surah
List all surahs
GET
/surah/{number}/{edition}
Get a surah in a specific edition
GET
/ayah/{reference}/{edition}
Get an ayah by reference in a chosen edition
GET
/juz/{number}/{edition}
Get a juz in a chosen edition
GET
/page/{number}
Get a Quran page by number
GET
/search
Search the Quran text and translations
GET
/edition
List available text and audio editions
GET
/meta
Get Quran metadata (counts of surahs, juzs, pages, etc.)
Why Jentic?
Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.
Credential isolation
Al-Quran Cloud is unauthenticated, so no credentials are stored in the MAXsystem vault for this API. Jentic still mediates the request, isolating the agent from network and retry concerns.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search Jentic with intents like 'get an ayah by reference' or 'list Quran translation editions' and receive the matching operation schema directly, ready to call without consulting the docs.
Time to first call
Direct integration: a few hours to learn the reference format and edition catalogue. Through Jentic: under 30 minutes to search, load, and execute the first ayah lookup.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using Al-Quran Cloud API through Jentic.
Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for Al-Quran Cloud API?
Al-Quran Cloud does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call Al-Quran Cloud API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.
What authentication does the Al-Quran Cloud API use?
None. The API is fully open and does not require an API key, OAuth token, or sign-up. Through Jentic the call is still routed through the standard execution layer for retry handling and logging.
Can I retrieve a single ayah with translation using the Al-Quran Cloud API?
Yes. Call GET /ayah/2:255/en.sahih for a translated ayah by reference, and GET /ayah/2:255/quran-uthmani in parallel for the original Arabic. The reference format is surah:ayah.
What are the rate limits for the Al-Quran Cloud API?
The API does not publish hard per-key rate limits because it is unauthenticated, but it is community-funded — keep request volume reasonable, cache aggressively at edge or app level, and retry with backoff on 429 or 5xx responses.
How do I look up Ayat al-Kursi through Jentic?
Search Jentic for 'get an ayah by reference', load the /ayah/{reference}/{edition} schema, and execute with reference=2:255 and edition=en.sahih. No credentials are needed; Jentic still wraps the call for retries.
Does the Al-Quran Cloud API serve audio recitations?
Yes. Call GET /edition with format=audio to list reciter editions, then GET /surah/{number}/{edition} (e.g., ar.alafasy) to retrieve URLs to the audio assets for that surah.
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