> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.urantia.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Search the Works > Keyword search across the Bible and the other works, or one work with `work`. A reference such as `John 3:16`, `Jn 3:16-18`, `Dhp 183`, or `BG 2.47` gives those units first (`match: "reference"`; with `work`, the prefix is optional). Otherwise the exact phrase comes first, then every word (the last word can be the start of a word); when these give fewer than 10, a typo fix follows (`meta.didYouMean`). Each result carries its nearest Urantia paragraphs (`urantiaParallelLimit`, 0 to 10, default 3). **The Urantia parallels are semantic, not curated.** They show the paragraphs closest in meaning by embedding similarity. They do not claim that two teachings are the same. Accepts query parameters instead of a JSON body. ## OpenAPI ````yaml GET /works/search openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Urantia Papers API version: 1.0.0 description: >- An API and MCP server for the Urantia Papers. Structured access to all 197 papers and more than 14,500 paragraphs, with full-text and semantic search, named entities, cross-references to public domain texts of the world's religions, and audio. No key needed. Docs: https://docs.urantia.dev termsOfService: https://docs.urantia.dev/terms-of-service contact: name: urantia.dev url: https://docs.urantia.dev/help email: kelson@urantia.dev license: name: MIT url: https://github.com/urantia-hub/urantia-dev-api/blob/main/LICENSE servers: - url: https://api.urantia.dev description: Production - url: http://localhost:3000 description: Local development security: [] paths: /works/search: get: tags: - Works summary: Keyword search across the works (GET) description: >- Keyword search across the Bible and the other works, or one work with `work`. A reference such as `John 3:16`, `Jn 3:16-18`, `Dhp 183`, or `BG 2.47` gives those units first (`match: "reference"`; with `work`, the prefix is optional). Otherwise the exact phrase comes first, then every word (the last word can be the start of a word); when these give fewer than 10, a typo fix follows (`meta.didYouMean`). Each result carries its nearest Urantia paragraphs (`urantiaParallelLimit`, 0 to 10, default 3). **The Urantia parallels are semantic, not curated.** They show the paragraphs closest in meaning by embedding similarity. They do not claim that two teachings are the same. Accepts query parameters instead of a JSON body. operationId: searchWorksGet parameters: - schema: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 500 required: true name: q in: query - schema: type: string description: 'One work only: "bible" or a work id such as "dhammapada".' required: false description: 'One work only: "bible" or a work id such as "dhammapada".' name: work in: query - schema: type: - integer - 'null' minimum: 0 default: 0 required: false name: page in: query - schema: type: integer minimum: 1 maximum: 100 default: 20 required: false name: limit in: query - schema: type: - integer - 'null' minimum: 0 maximum: 10 default: 3 required: false name: urantiaParallelLimit in: query responses: '200': description: Search results content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: data: type: array items: type: object properties: work: type: object properties: id: type: string title: type: string tradition: type: string required: - id - title - tradition reference: type: string description: >- "John 3:16", "Dhp 183", "BG 2.47-49" (a chunk in semantic search). text: type: string url: type: - string - 'null' description: The public page that holds the text, or null. match: type: string enum: - reference - exact - all - near description: 'Keyword search: how it matched.' similarity: type: number description: 'Semantic search: cosine similarity.' strength: type: string enum: - strong - related - weak description: >- How close the result is: strong (most right answers score this), related, or weak (likely off the topic). urantiaParallels: type: array items: type: object properties: standardReferenceId: type: string paperTitle: type: string sectionTitle: type: - string - 'null' text: type: string similarity: type: number rank: type: integer required: - standardReferenceId - paperTitle - sectionTitle - text - similarity - rank description: >- The nearest Urantia paragraphs (semantic parallels, not curated ones). required: - work - reference - text - url - urantiaParallels meta: type: object properties: page: type: integer limit: type: integer total: type: integer totalPages: type: integer didYouMean: type: string related: type: integer description: >- Semantic search only: how many results of the list are related or better. required: - page - limit - total - totalPages required: - data - meta example: data: - work: id: bible title: The Bible (World English Bible) tradition: Jewish and Christian reference: Matthew 5:44 text: >- But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you, url: https://ebible.org/eng-web/MAT05.htm#V44 match: exact urantiaParallels: - standardReferenceId: '140:3.16' paperTitle: The Ordination of the Twelve sectionTitle: The Ordination Sermon text: >- “Your Father in heaven makes the sun to shine on the evil as well as upon the good; likewise he sends rain on the just and the unjust. You are the sons of God; even more, you are now the ambassadors of my Father’s kingdom. Be merciful, even as God is merciful, and in the eternal future of the kingdom you shall be perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect. similarity: 0.709579 rank: 1 - standardReferenceId: '140:3.15' paperTitle: The Ordination of the Twelve sectionTitle: The Ordination Sermon text: >- “I say to you: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who despitefully use you. And whatsoever you believe that I would do to men, do you also to them. similarity: 0.708928 rank: 2 - work: id: bible title: The Bible (World English Bible) tradition: Jewish and Christian reference: Luke 6:27 text: >- “But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, url: https://ebible.org/eng-web/LUK06.htm#V27 match: exact urantiaParallels: - standardReferenceId: '140:3.15' paperTitle: The Ordination of the Twelve sectionTitle: The Ordination Sermon text: >- “I say to you: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who despitefully use you. And whatsoever you believe that I would do to men, do you also to them. similarity: 0.761205 rank: 1 - standardReferenceId: '159:5.11' paperTitle: The Decapolis Tour sectionTitle: The Positive Nature of Jesus’ Religion text: >- When Jesus instructed his apostles that they should, when one unjustly took away the coat, offer the other garment, he referred not so much to a literal second coat as to the idea of doing something positive to save the wrongdoer in the place of the olden advice to retaliate—“an eye for an eye” and so on. Jesus abhorred the idea either of retaliation or of becoming just a passive sufferer or victim of injustice. On this occasion he taught them the three ways of contending with, and resisting, evil: similarity: 0.53267 rank: 2 meta: page: 0 limit: 2 total: 21 totalPages: 11 headers: X-RateLimit-Limit: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Limit' X-RateLimit-Remaining: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Remaining' X-RateLimit-Reset: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Reset' '400': description: Invalid request content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails' headers: X-RateLimit-Limit: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Limit' X-RateLimit-Remaining: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Remaining' X-RateLimit-Reset: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Reset' '429': description: Too many requests content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails' headers: X-RateLimit-Limit: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Limit' X-RateLimit-Remaining: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Remaining' X-RateLimit-Reset: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Reset' '500': description: Internal server error content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails' headers: X-RateLimit-Limit: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Limit' X-RateLimit-Remaining: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Remaining' X-RateLimit-Reset: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Reset' components: headers: X-RateLimit-Limit: description: The number of requests allowed in the current window. schema: type: integer example: 200 X-RateLimit-Remaining: description: The number of requests left in the current window. schema: type: integer example: 199 X-RateLimit-Reset: description: The time the window resets, in Unix seconds. schema: type: integer example: 1791152213 schemas: ProblemDetails: type: object description: An RFC 9457 problem details object. Every error response uses it. properties: type: type: string format: uri description: A URI that names the error type. title: type: string description: The short name of the status. status: type: integer description: The HTTP status code. detail: type: string description: What went wrong in this request. required: - type - title - status - detail example: type: https://urantia.dev/errors/not-found title: Not Found status: 404 detail: Paragraph not found ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.