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# Search personal account scripture

GET https://api.bibleit.app/v1/accounts/{account_id}/translations/{slug}/search

**Required scopes:** `translation.search`.

Personal-account library operation. Requires the documented personal permission and explicit token scope if scoped. The caller must own account_id. Uses only the personal enabled library, existing typed verse/rights metadata and bounded native reads/search. No organization library inheritance, installation, URL fetch or implicit enablement. Fresh personal credential/user/account checks run after acquiring the account lock. Disabled translation access returns 403; unknown canonical book/chapter/verse retains the existing 404 contract. Search uses the existing additional per-user search admission and returns has_more. Registered delegated OAuth access tokens are accepted within these personal boundaries; /me and account metadata additionally require identity.read.

Reference: https://docs.bibleit.dev/api-reference/personal-accounts/search-personal-scripture

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Personal bearer credential issued through existing account settings or browser-approved CLI flow. Must be active, finite, unexpired, unrevoked, within any rotation overlap, and bound to an active personal membership/user/account. Explicit scopes intersect current user permissions; empty existing personal scopes inherit current user authority. Not an OAuth grant or service token. Browser cookies are ignored.
- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Registered public-client OAuth for personal-account resources only. Exact registered HTTPS or fixed-port literal loopback redirect; S256 required; explicit consent. No organization/presentation authority. identity.read is required for /me and account metadata. Scope intersection with current user authority; no empty-scope inheritance.

## Request

### Path parameters

- `account_id` (string, required) — Caller’s own immutable personal account UUID; other personal or organization accounts return 404.
- `slug` (string, required)

### Query parameters

- `q` (string, required)
- `limit` (integer, optional, default: 50)

## Response

### 200

Successful operation

- `translation` (string, required)
- `rights` (TranslationRights, required)
- `verses` (list of Verse, required)
- `has_more` (boolean, required)

## Errors

### 401 Unauthorized Error

Error response. 400 malformed JSON; 401 invalid/expired/revoked token; 403 denied scope or domain policy; 404 unknown/foreign resource; 405 unsupported method; 409 quota/conflict or stopped Live; 412 stale state validator; 428 missing If-Match; 413 body too large; 415 unsupported media type; 422 invalid fields; 429 admission budget exhausted; 503 unavailable dependency.

- `type` (any, required)
- `title` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `code` (string, required)
- `request_id` (string, required)

### 403 Forbidden Error

Error response. 400 malformed JSON; 401 invalid/expired/revoked token; 403 denied scope or domain policy; 404 unknown/foreign resource; 405 unsupported method; 409 quota/conflict or stopped Live; 412 stale state validator; 428 missing If-Match; 413 body too large; 415 unsupported media type; 422 invalid fields; 429 admission budget exhausted; 503 unavailable dependency.

- `type` (any, required)
- `title` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `code` (string, required)
- `request_id` (string, required)

### 404 Not Found Error

Error response. 400 malformed JSON; 401 invalid/expired/revoked token; 403 denied scope or domain policy; 404 unknown/foreign resource; 405 unsupported method; 409 quota/conflict or stopped Live; 412 stale state validator; 428 missing If-Match; 413 body too large; 415 unsupported media type; 422 invalid fields; 429 admission budget exhausted; 503 unavailable dependency.

- `type` (any, required)
- `title` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `code` (string, required)
- `request_id` (string, required)

### 429 Too Many Requests Error

Error response. 400 malformed JSON; 401 invalid/expired/revoked token; 403 denied scope or domain policy; 404 unknown/foreign resource; 405 unsupported method; 409 quota/conflict or stopped Live; 412 stale state validator; 428 missing If-Match; 413 body too large; 415 unsupported media type; 422 invalid fields; 429 admission budget exhausted; 503 unavailable dependency.

- `type` (any, required)
- `title` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `code` (string, required)
- `request_id` (string, required)

### 503 Service Unavailable Error

Error response. 400 malformed JSON; 401 invalid/expired/revoked token; 403 denied scope or domain policy; 404 unknown/foreign resource; 405 unsupported method; 409 quota/conflict or stopped Live; 412 stale state validator; 428 missing If-Match; 413 body too large; 415 unsupported media type; 422 invalid fields; 429 admission budget exhausted; 503 unavailable dependency.

- `type` (any, required)
- `title` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `code` (string, required)
- `request_id` (string, required)

## Types

### TranslationRights

- `edition` (string, required)
- `rights_status` (string, required)
- `source_url` (string, required)
- `attribution` (string, required)
- `license_id` (string, optional)
- `license_url` (string, optional)
- `copyright` (string, optional)
- `change_notice` (string, optional)

### Verse

- `book_id` (integer, required)
- `book` (string, required)
- `chapter` (integer, required)
- `verse` (integer, required)
- `text` (string, required)

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{
  "translation": "string",
  "rights": {
    "edition": "string",
    "rights_status": "string",
    "source_url": "string",
    "attribution": "string",
    "license_id": "string",
    "license_url": "string",
    "copyright": "string",
    "change_notice": "string"
  },
  "verses": [
    {
      "book_id": 1,
      "book": "string",
      "chapter": 1,
      "verse": 1,
      "text": "string"
    }
  ],
  "has_more": true
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.bibleit.app/v1/accounts/account_id/translations/slug/search"

querystring = {"q":"q"}

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=querystring)

print(response.json())
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.bibleit.app/v1/accounts/account_id/translations/slug/search?q=q"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```