Quotable
Free quotes API with 1,600+ curated quotes from 700+ authors, filterable by author, tag, and length. Used in daily-quote widgets, inspiration apps, and loading-screen easter eggs.
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Offline — TLS certificate expired and the project is unmaintained since 2025.
No key required
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does Quotable require an API key?
No, Quotable is freely accessible without registration or an API key.
What is Quotable's free tier?
Offline — TLS certificate expired and the project is unmaintained since 2025.
Is Quotable currently online?
We check Quotable every hour. The current status is shown at the top of this page. You can also see the 30-day uptime history in the chart above.
Implementation notes
When to use Quotable
Quotable offers 1,600+ curated quotes from 700+ verified authors with tag-based filtering, author search, and length filtering (minLength/maxLength). It is unlimited, requires no key, and returns clean JSON. Use it for inspirational widgets, daily-quote email digests, or loading-screen flavour text.
Common pitfalls
- Quotable has had intermittent downtime periods in 2024-2025. The project is open-source and community-maintained — there is no SLA or paid tier. For production use, cache quotes locally on a daily or weekly basis rather than fetching at runtime.
- The `/random` endpoint returns a single random quote per call. It does not support a `count` parameter to retrieve multiple random quotes in one request. To display 5 random quotes, you need 5 separate HTTP calls.
- Author slugs and quote IDs are stable but the dataset evolves. If you hard-code a quote ID for a featured quote, check that it still exists periodically — quotes have been removed when attribution accuracy was questioned.
- Tag filtering uses exact matching — `?tags=technology` returns quotes explicitly tagged `technology` but not quotes tagged `science` or `innovation`. Browse the `/tags` endpoint to discover the full tag taxonomy before building filters.
Quick start (bash)
curl "https://api.quotable.io/quotes/random?tags=technology|science&maxLength=100"Embed this badge
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