Quotes on Design API

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Overview

Quotes on Design provides a curated collection of inspirational quotes from designers, artists, and creative thinkers via a simple WordPress-powered REST API. Each request returns a random quote that you can display in apps, websites, or daily inspiration tools. No authentication is required — just send a GET request and get a quote back.

Beginner Tip

The API is built on WordPress REST API, so the response is a JSON array — remember to access the first element (result[0]) to get your quote.

Available Data

The kind of data this API exposes, based on its documentation. We could not call the endpoint to confirm the exact field names.

quote text

author name

category or tag

Use case: Integrate inspirational quotes data into web and mobile applications

Example Response

Illustrative shape only — we were not able to call this endpoint (it requires credentials or exposes no public sample URL), so the fields below show the kind of data this API returns rather than a recorded response.

JSON Response · Illustrative

{
  "content": "The only way to do great work is to love what you do.",
  "author": "Steve Jobs",
  "tags": [
    "inspiration",
    "work"
  ]
}

Field Reference

id WordPress post ID for the quote.

title.rendered The author's name as the post title.

content.rendered The quote text, wrapped in HTML paragraph tags.

link Permalink URL to the quote on the Quotes on Design website.

Implementation Example

Calls a real endpoint of this API. Replace any placeholder credentials with your own key.

Request

const url = "https://quotesondesign.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?orderby=rand&per_page=1";
const response = await fetch(url);
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

What Can You Build?

Note: These code examples are AI-generated and unverified. Always refer to the official API documentation for accurate usage.

Common Errors & Troubleshooting

Generated guidance based on this API's documentation, not observed by us. Treat it as a starting point and check against the provider's own error reference.

Response is an array, not an object The WordPress API always returns an array of posts, even for a single result.

✓ Access the first element: const quote = data[0]; then use quote.content.rendered for the quote text.

HTML tags in content field The content field contains raw WordPress HTML markup.

✓ Strip HTML tags using a regex like content.replace(/<[^>]+>/g, "") or a DOM parser before displaying.

Same quote appearing repeatedly Browser or CDN caching is returning the same response.

✓ Append a unique cache-busting parameter like ?_=timestamp to the URL to force a fresh response.

Metadata Score Breakdown

Estimated from metadata — endpoint not independently tested

This score is estimated from observable metadata — HTTPS support, authentication model, declared CORS, and documentation reachability — because the API requires authentication or exposes no publicly testable endpoint. The five-signal breakdown is only shown for live-tested APIs.

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