YouVersion Bible URL Scheme

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After some asking and poking around, I finally figured out how to specify a range using the YouVersion Bible app's URL scheme.

# Open a range of verses

1youversion://bible?reference=PHP.4.4+PHP.4.5+PHP.4.6+PHP.4.7

The Bible book names are specified using their standard OSIS abbreviations.

The only tricky part here was that I was expecting the arguments to be the start and end verses. But, it's actually an enumeration of the verses you want.

And for reference, here are the other available endpoints.

# Open to a specific verse

1youversion://bible?reference=JHN.3.16

# Open bookmarks

1youversion://bookmarks

# Open reading plans

1youversion://reading_plans

Take note that this URL scheme is undocumented, meaning it may change with a future update of the app.