How can I directly search by surah and aya number

[arfan]

How can I directly search by sura and aya number? I am trying to do it like this https://www.alfanous.org/api/search?sura_id=1&aya_id=1 but it gives no result.

Regards

[sneetsher]

Welcome @arfan

Those keywords in this table are query fields, not API GET/URL parameters.

So your search?query=sura_id:1+aya_id:1 , the same as you type it in Alfanous website search box, ie. sura_id:1+aya_id:1

However in URL, it should be encoded:

• Website interface: https://www.alfanous.org/en/aya/?query=sura_id%3A1%2Baya_id%3A1
• API: https://www.alfanous.org/api/search?query=sura_id%3A1%2Baya_id%3A1

Let me, know when you try them, if that what you wanted.

[arfan]

Thank you. The url works.

[sneetsher]

You welcome.

[Kentoseth]

This example does not work on the JOS2 version of the API.

Same example as above results in entire Surah fati7a being shown.

How do we make API queries using this URL:

https://www.alfanous.org/jos2?

?

@sneetsher

[sneetsher]

@Kentoseth It does accept same query format. JOS2 is at an old API version and it is kept for compatibility. If you are developing something new, recommend sticking to edge version https://www.alfanous.org/api/

https://www.alfanous.org/jos2/search?query=sura_id%3A1%2Baya_id%3A1

By the way, it does not return same schema and it has fewer meta data.