A good API for famous quotes

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user1121487 picture user1121487 · Jan 1, 2013 · Viewed 47.1k times · Source

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.

Answer

mgherkins picture mgherkins · Jan 1, 2013

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

maybe give that a try...

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