Behind the Sefaria library are over a million lines of code and a powerful API. While this code goes unseen by most people, it’s arguably the most important part of the library — in part because anyone can freely use it.

For the last 10 years, we’ve been ingesting the Jewish canon, generating data that can be repurposed by other Torah technologies forever. Now, we’re excited to introduce a new hub for software developers to more easily utilize Sefaria’s open-source data in their own projects.

Already, more than 200 Torah technologies make use of Sefaria’s data, from popular sites like My Jewish Learning and Hadran to newer tools like Mishnah.org. With our new Developer Portal, we're working to make the digital building blocks of our library — the data surrounding 3,000 years of Jewish texts — accessible to a wider range of developers.

This is just the beginning of a larger initiative to make options for working with Sefaria data more accessible and robust.

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