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Quote Garden

A REST API for quotes.

I originally built this for Achieve Chrome Extension project and decided to publish for others to use as well. The database currently includes more than 5000 quotes

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API Documentation

The older version of API is now deprecating soon. Please upgrade to new version 2 (V2) API routes for improved performance, caching, paging, etc.

Get a random quote

Returns a single random quote from the database.

Request

https://quote-garden.herokuapp.com/api/v2/quotes/random

Response

{
  statusCode : int,
  {
    _id: string,
    quoteText: string,
    quoteAuthor: string
  }
}

Get quotes by author

Returns multiple quotes for a particular author.

Request

https://quote-garden.herokuapp.com/api/v2/authors/:authorName?page=1&limit=10

Query parameters are optional

Response

{
  statusCode : int,
  totalPages : int,
  currentPage : int,
  quotes : array
}

Get all quotes

Returns all quotes from the database.

Request

https://quote-garden.herokuapp.com/api/v2/quotes/all?page=1&limit=10

Response

{
  statusCode : int,
  totalPages : int,
  currentPage : int,
  quotes : array
}

Get all quotes by keyword

Returns all quotes with matching keywords.

Request

https://quote-garden.herokuapp.com/api/v2/quotes/:searchQuery?page=1&limit=10

Response

{
  statusCode : int,
  totalPages : int,
  currentPage : int,
  quotes : array
}

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Contributing

All feedback and contributions are welcome!

License

The MIT License (MIT)
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Copyright © 2019 Prathamesh More

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without
restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. ```