For over twenty years the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has managed and developed a set of encoding guidelines for the representation of humanities, social sciences, and linguistics -- to preserve and share -- texts in digital form. Using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) as its backbone, TEI is the generally accepted encoding model for the digital humanities. Due to XML’s extensible nature, it can often be difficult to share these files and even more problematic to make them interoperable. The goal of our project is to build a prototype Application Programming Interface (API) for TEI-XML documents that provides greater interoperability while at the same time being easy to use by an audience with backgrounds in the humanities, social sciences, and linguistics. Currently, we have produced a deliverable with two components. The first: an API that, once installed, can return multiple views of a TEI-XML file using a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) as its query method. The second is a set of user-tested support documentation that is both easily discoverable and easliy usable by our target audience. In future iterations of our prototype we plan to include a more robust listing of return view types, the ability to support multiple TEI-XML files, and API key permissions support.