Penguin Publishing
Books
Books, book covers and related data
Fast and Accurate Gurbani RESTful API
Checked 4 days ago: not responding
API key
Not required
HTTPS
Supported
Browser calls
No, needs a proxy
Status
Failing · 0/100
Last checked 2026-09-18. Measured independently, not self-reported by the provider.
A starting template for GurbaniNow. Replace ENDPOINT with the path from the official documentation, which we link above rather than guess at.
# No authentication required.
curl -s "https://github.com/ENDPOINT" \
-H "Accept: application/json"This API does not send CORS headers, so a browser will block a direct call from your front end. Call it from your server, or put a small proxy in front of it.
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Answered from what our own scheduled checks found, not from the provider's marketing.
GurbaniNow is listed in our free catalogue and required no credential when we called it. It needs no authentication at all, so you can send a request without signing up. Free tiers can still carry rate limits or non-commercial terms, so check the provider's own terms before shipping.
No. We called GurbaniNow on 2026-09-18 with no key, no token and no Authorization header, and it responded. That is what puts it in our no-key collection.
Not directly. GurbaniNow did not return CORS headers when we checked, so the browser will block your page from reading the response even though the request itself succeeds. Call it from a server, or put a small proxy in front of it.
Not at our last check on 2026-09-18. GurbaniNow did not respond successfully, which is why it is marked as down here. This may be temporary; we re-check on a schedule and the badge above reflects the most recent run.
Yes. GurbaniNow serves over HTTPS, so you can call it from a secure page without triggering a mixed-content block.