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A good API for famous quotes [closed]

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I'm looking for an API for retrieving famous quotes. I've been looking briefly at Quotes Daddy, STANDS4 and I heart quotes.

Has anyone tried a good, preferably REST API for retrieving quotes? It must be able to get quotes by author etc.

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user1121487 Avatar asked Jan 01 '13 12:01

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Wikipedia does have an API. So does Wikiquote: http://en.wikiquote.org/w/api.php

maybe give that a try...

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mgherkins Avatar answered Oct 18 '22 06:10

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