---
title: "Paragraphs close to many texts"
method: GET
path: "/scriptures/insights/shared-currents"
tags: ["Scriptures"]
---

# Paragraphs close to many texts

`GET /scriptures/insights/shared-currents`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.urantia.dev`
- URL: `https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/insights/shared-currents`
- Auth: none required

Urantia paragraphs ranked by their mean percentile across the texts, highest first. Paper 131 is left out, because it is a collection of sayings from these religions. Filter by `paperId` or `partId`.

Scores come from the nine world religions texts and the World English Bible. For each text, a paragraph's best match becomes a percentile within that text, after an adjustment for paragraph length. The texts are not independent votes: a paragraph that sounds devotional tends to score well in all of them. These are measures of closeness in meaning by an embedding model, not claims about the teachings.

## Query parameters

- `paperId` integer, nullable
- `partId` integer
- `minLength` integer, nullable: Leave out paragraphs shorter than this many characters. Headings and fragments score unreliably
- `page` integer, nullable
- `limit` integer

## Response `200`

Paragraphs close to many texts

- object
  - `data` object[], required
    - `paragraph` object, required
      - `id` string, required
      - `standardReferenceId` string, required
      - `paperId` string, required
      - `paperTitle` string, required
      - `sectionTitle` string, nullable, required
      - `text` string, required
    - `textsClose` integer, required: Texts that have this paragraph in their top 10%
    - `consensus` number, required: Mean percentile across the texts, 0 to 1
    - `distance` number, required: 1 minus the highest percentile, 0 to 1
    - `closest` object[], required
      - `corpus` object, required
        - `id` string, required
        - `slug` string, required
        - `religion` string, required
        - `title` string, required
        - `translator` string, required
        - `year` integer, required
        - `refPrefix` string, required
        - `urantiaSection` string, nullable, required: The Paper 131 section headed with this religion, or null when Paper 131 has no such heading
      - `percentile` number, required: The paragraph's best match in this text, as a percentile within the text after a length adjustment, 0 to 1
  - `meta` object, required
    - `page` integer, required
    - `limit` integer, required
    - `total` integer, required
    - `totalPages` integer, required

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid request
- `429`: Too many requests
- `500`: Internal server error

## Changes

- **2026-10-08** `0e36cd11b340`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/urantia/apis/urantia-papers-api/changes/scriptures/insights/shared-currents/get.md)

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