Random Quote API

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Deliver an inspiring quote and its author to your readers.

Random Quote fetches a random quote and its author attribution on every call. Send a GET request without parameters to receive quote text ready for displays, dashboards, or daily messages.

Try it — live request, no key required

Request

GETapi.apiverve.com/v1/randomquote

Verification

Format

No key required to try it. Get a key to use it in your app.

Example

{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "quote": "Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.",
    "author": "Joseph Campbell"
  }
}

About the Random Quote API

Make a GET request without query parameters to pull a single entry. The endpoint responds with the quote text and the attributed author or source name. Every call pulls a distinct quotation from the collection to populate widgets, greeting banners, or terminal screens.

What people use it for

Daily Motivation Widgets: When a user opens a productivity app, fetch a fresh quote and author to display on their morning dashboard.
Newsletter Footer Content: Add variety to recurring marketing emails by injecting a distinct quotation and creator credit into each outgoing send.
Chatbot Greeting Prompts: Community managers can program chat bots to share an inspiring quote during quiet hours to spur conversation among members.
Browser Tab Extensions: Replace blank browser tabs with a randomly selected quotation and author line whenever someone opens a new window.

Ways to call it

One endpoint, many ways in — REST with JSON, XML, YAML and CSV, plus GraphQL and an MCP interface for AI agents.

JSON: Default REST response
XML: Markup format
YAML: Human-readable
CSV: Tabular export
GraphQL: Query language
MCP: For AI agents

View all integrations →

Other ways to use Random Quote

Same data, same APIVerve account, same credit balance — one key works on all of them.

Give it to an AI agentConnect over MCP and your agent calls it as a native tool — Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT.on VerveKit

Questions.

Common questions about the Random Quote API.

Read the docs →

What would 25,000 quotes a month cost me?

Each quote request costs 2 credits, so 25,000 quotes use 50,000 credits. That uses one quarter of the credits on the Starter plan, which works out to about $0.30 per 1,000 calls. The Free plan includes 100 quotes per month for testing.

Can I filter quotes by topic, author, or category?

No. The endpoint accepts no filter parameters and selects a random quote from the collection on each call. If you need quotes on a specific subject or from a specific person, this API will not let you narrow the selection.

Does every response include an author attribution?

Yes. Each successful response returns the text content alongside the author or source attributed to the quote in separate fields.

Can I pull multiple quotes in a single call?

No. Random Quote returns one quote and author pair per request. To display multiple quotes, your application will need to issue a call for each quote required.

Do I need to send any query parameters with the request?

No parameters are required. You make a basic GET request to the endpoint to receive a quote immediately.

Request parameters — GET /v1/randomquote

This endpoint takes no parameters

Call it with your key and nothing else. Any query string you send is ignored rather than rejected.

Example request

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curl "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/randomquote" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Authentication

Send your key in the x-api-key header. That is the only auth step — no token exchange, and no per-endpoint scope to configure.

Header	When	Value
`x-api-key`Required	Every request	Your API key. Header names are case-insensitive, so `X-API-Key` is the same header.
`Authorization`Alternate	Instead of the above	`Bearer <key>` — for clients that only expose bearer auth. Resolves to the same account and the same billing.

401 is the only auth verdict

A 401 means the key is missing, invalid or expired. A 403 means the key is valid but not permitted here — blocked by a key restriction or an IP allow-list. Running out of credits is a 429.

Response — GET /v1/randomquote

Every APIVerve endpoint returns the same three top-level keys, so one response handler covers your whole integration: status, error and data. Only data changes shape.

Sample response

{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "quote": "Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.",
    "author": "Joseph Campbell"
  }
}

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.

Field	Type	Example	Description
`quote`	string	`"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again."`	The text content of the random quote
`author`	string	`"Joseph Campbell"`	The author or source of the quote

Response headers

Every response carries your balance, so your own code always knows where it stands without polling anything. All four are exposed to browsers through CORS.

Header	What it carries
`x-api-remaining-credits`	Credits left in the current cycle
`x-api-credits-used`	Credits spent in the current cycle
`x-api-max-credits`	The allowance for the cycle
`x-api-version`	Version of the endpoint that answered

Errors

Read the HTTP status first, then error for the specific reason. The body names the parameter that has to change.

Status	Meaning	What to do
`400`	Input was rejected	Read `error`; it names the parameter that has to change.
`401`	Key missing or invalid	Check the header name and the key value.
`403`	Key valid, but not permitted here	A key restriction or an IP allow-list — never a bad key.
`429`	Rate limited, or out of credits	Read `error` to tell them apart, then back off or top up.

What a call costs — 2 credits per call

Credits are shared across every APIVerve API — one balance, one key, one bill. Failed requests never count against it, so a rejected input costs nothing.

Plan	Per month	Credits	Random Quote calls	Per 1,000 calls
Free	Free	200	100	Free
Starter	$29.99	200,000	100,000	$0.30
Pro	$99.99	1,000,000	500,000	$0.20
Mega	$299.99	4,000,000	2,000,000	$0.15

Calls are what the credits buy at this API's rate — spend them here, on any of the other APIs, or across both. Nothing is reserved per endpoint.

Compare all pricing tiers →

Call it from cURL — GET /v1/randomquote

No SDK to install — this is a plain HTTPS call to /v1/randomquote with your key in the x-api-key header. Swap in a real key and it runs as-is.

cURL

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curl "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/randomquote" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Resources

GitHubapiverve/randomquote-apiSource, issues and the examples this page is built from.ReferenceRandom Quote API docsEvery parameter, every response field, and the errors.ParametersWhat this call acceptsRequired and optional inputs, with example values.

Also published for

@apiverve/randomquotenpm apiverve-randomquotePyPI APIVerve.API.RandomQuoteNuGet

Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.

Call it from Node.js — GET /v1/randomquote

Install the Node.js SDK, then call the Random Quote API with your key. The client wraps the same HTTPS request, so anything it returns is what the endpoint returns.

Install — npm

npm install @apiverve/randomquote

Node.js

const res = await fetch("https://api.apiverve.com/v1/randomquote", {
  headers: { "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY" },
});
const { data } = await res.json();
console.log(data);

Resources

npm@apiverve/randomquoteThe published Node.js client, versioned and signed.GitHubapiverve/randomquote-apiSource, issues and the examples this page is built from.ReferenceRandom Quote API docsEvery parameter, every response field, and the errors.ParametersWhat this call acceptsRequired and optional inputs, with example values.

Also published for

apiverve-randomquotePyPI APIVerve.API.RandomQuoteNuGet

Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.

Call it from Python — GET /v1/randomquote

Install the Python SDK, then call the Random Quote API with your key. The client wraps the same HTTPS request, so anything it returns is what the endpoint returns.

Install — PyPI

pip install apiverve-randomquote

Python

import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/randomquote",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
print(res.json()["data"])

Resources

PyPIapiverve-randomquoteThe published Python client, versioned and signed.GitHubapiverve/randomquote-apiSource, issues and the examples this page is built from.ReferenceRandom Quote API docsEvery parameter, every response field, and the errors.ParametersWhat this call acceptsRequired and optional inputs, with example values.

Also published for

@apiverve/randomquotenpm APIVerve.API.RandomQuoteNuGet

Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.

Call it from C# / .NET — GET /v1/randomquote

Install the C# / .NET SDK, then call the Random Quote API with your key. The client wraps the same HTTPS request, so anything it returns is what the endpoint returns.

Install — NuGet

dotnet add package APIVerve.API.RandomQuote

C# / .NET

using var client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY");

var json = await client.GetStringAsync("https://api.apiverve.com/v1/randomquote");
Console.WriteLine(json);

Resources

NuGetAPIVerve.API.RandomQuoteThe published C# / .NET client, versioned and signed.GitHubapiverve/randomquote-apiSource, issues and the examples this page is built from.ReferenceRandom Quote API docsEvery parameter, every response field, and the errors.ParametersWhat this call acceptsRequired and optional inputs, with example values.

Also published for

@apiverve/randomquotenpm apiverve-randomquotePyPI

Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.

Call it from Go — GET /v1/randomquote

No SDK to install — this is a plain HTTPS call to /v1/randomquote with your key in the x-api-key header. Swap in a real key and it runs as-is.

req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/randomquote", nil)
req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")

res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))

Resources

Also published for

@apiverve/randomquotenpm apiverve-randomquotePyPI APIVerve.API.RandomQuoteNuGet

Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.

Call it from PHP — GET /v1/randomquote

No SDK to install — this is a plain HTTPS call to /v1/randomquote with your key in the x-api-key header. Swap in a real key and it runs as-is.

PHP

$ch = curl_init("https://api.apiverve.com/v1/randomquote");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"]);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
echo $response;

Resources

Also published for

@apiverve/randomquotenpm apiverve-randomquotePyPI APIVerve.API.RandomQuoteNuGet

Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.

Call it from Ruby — GET /v1/randomquote

No SDK to install — this is a plain HTTPS call to /v1/randomquote with your key in the x-api-key header. Swap in a real key and it runs as-is.

Ruby

require "net/http"

uri = URI("https://api.apiverve.com/v1/randomquote")
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
req["x-api-key"] = "YOUR_API_KEY"

res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) { |h| h.request(req) }
puts res.body

Resources

Also published for

@apiverve/randomquotenpm apiverve-randomquotePyPI APIVerve.API.RandomQuoteNuGet

Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.

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Random Quote API

Try it — live request, no key required

About the Random Quote API

What people use it for

Ways to call it

Other ways to use Random Quote

Questions.

Request parameters — GET /v1/randomquote

Authentication

Response — GET /v1/randomquote

Response fields

Response headers

Errors

What a call costs — 2 credits per call

Call it from cURL — GET /v1/randomquote

Resources

Also published for

Call it from Node.js — GET /v1/randomquote

Resources

Also published for

Call it from Python — GET /v1/randomquote

Resources

Also published for

Call it from C# / .NET — GET /v1/randomquote

Resources

Also published for

Call it from Go — GET /v1/randomquote

Resources

Also published for

Call it from PHP — GET /v1/randomquote

Resources

Also published for

Call it from Ruby — GET /v1/randomquote

Resources

Also published for

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