Translations

The Urantia Papers are available in Spanish: every paragraph of the Foreword and the 196 papers, and every paper, section, and part title. The Spanish is a machine translation, released as CC0 (public domain). Each translated paragraph has a label that says so.

Get the Spanish text

Add lang=es to a request. Without lang, the API returns English, as before.

curl "https://api.urantia.dev/paragraphs/1:0.1?lang=es"
curl "https://api.urantia.dev/papers/1?lang=es"
curl "https://api.urantia.dev/toc?lang=es"

These endpoints accept lang:

Endpoint	What is in Spanish
`GET /toc`	Part titles, part sponsorships, and paper titles
`GET /papers`	Paper titles
`GET /papers/{id}`	The paper title, and the text and section title of each paragraph
`GET /papers/{id}/sections`	Section titles
`GET /paragraphs/{ref}`	The paragraph text and its titles
`GET /paragraphs/{ref}/context`	The paragraph and the paragraphs around it
`GET /paragraphs/random`	The paragraph text and its titles
`GET /entities/{id}/paragraphs`	The paragraphs that name the entity

A translated paragraph

{
  "data": {
    "standardReferenceId": "1:0.1",
    "paperTitle": "El Padre Universal",
    "sectionTitle": null,
    "text": "EL Padre Universal es el Dios de toda la creación, la Primera Fuente y Centro de todas las cosas y de todos los seres. Piensen en Dios primero como creador, después como controlador y, por último, como sostenedor infinito. ...",
    "language": "es",
    "translation": {
      "method": "machine",
      "license": "CC0-1.0",
      "review": "auto_checked"
    }
  }
}

The other fields (id, htmlText, labels, audio, and the rest) are the same as in English. htmlText holds the Spanish text with the same markup.

Field	Meaning
`language`	The language of `text`. A paragraph with no translation returns English and `"eng"`
`translation.method`	Always `machine`
`translation.license`	Always `CC0-1.0`
`translation.review`	`auto_checked`: the automatic checks found no problem. `needs_review`: a check flagged the paragraph (its length, a term, or a number), so a person should read it before you rely on it. About 1,240 paragraphs have `needs_review`

Show the label to your readers, for example “Machine translation”. Do not present the Spanish as an official or human translation.

In the MCP server

The paper and paragraph tools take lang: "es": toc.get, papers.list, papers.get, papers.sections, paragraphs.get, paragraphs.context, and paragraphs.random. Each Spanish paragraph has language and translation, as in the REST API. See MCP Servers.

In the SDK

@urantia/api 0.7.0 and later:

const { data: toc } = await api.toc.get({ lang: 'es' })
const { data: paper } = await api.papers.get('1', { lang: 'es' })
const { data: p } = await api.paragraphs.get('1:0.1', { lang: 'es' })
p.translation // { method: 'machine', license: 'CC0-1.0', review: 'auto_checked' }

What stays in English

Search. /search, /search/semantic, and the search tools search the English text and return English results. Use the reference of a result to get its Spanish text.
Audio. All narration is English.
Topic labels on papers and paragraphs.
Entity descriptions. Spanish has entity names only. See Entities.
The Bible and the other works.

How the translation was made

AI models translated the English, one paper at a time, with a glossary of the terms that the Papers use. No existing Spanish translation was a source. An automatic check compares each paragraph with published translations, and a paragraph that is too close goes back for a new translation. The text uses “ustedes” for the plural “you”, lowercase pronouns for God (“él”, “su”), and « » for quotations, so that it reads well in every Spanish-speaking country. To report a wrong word or an error, use Feedback and give the reference of the paragraph.

Getting Started

Data

SDKs

Integrations

Open Source

Support

Legal

Get the Spanish text

A translated paragraph

In the MCP server

In the SDK

What stays in English

How the translation was made

​Get the Spanish text

​A translated paragraph

​In the MCP server

​In the SDK

​What stays in English

​How the translation was made

Get the Spanish text

A translated paragraph

In the MCP server

In the SDK

What stays in English

How the translation was made