API Anything

English Wikiquote APIunofficial

Public English Wikiquote title suggestions, selected quotation list items and the current quote of the day.

all live 3 operations, checked by the installs that call them.

Seeded by the maintainers.

Try it

Set up API Anything for your agents:

npx -y api-anything setup

Then ask your agent, which finds this site by itself, or call it from a shell:

api-anything pull wikiquote
api-anything call wikiquote getQuotes title=Albert_Einstein

Operations

OperationMethodLoginWritesStatus
getQuotes(title) -> text, source

Extract direct list items in a Quotes or Sourced section, including nested source notes. Subsections are omitted; text includes the notes.

 GET no no Live0 confirmations · success unknown; last worked unknown
quoteOfTheDay() -> quote, author

Read the current Main Page quote of the day and its attribution.

 GET no no Live0 confirmations · success unknown; last worked unknown
searchPages(q) -> key, title, description

Find page titles by prefix, up to ten suggestions.

 GET no no Live0 confirmations · success unknown; last worked unknown

Notes

No account is needed. This is the English Wikiquote.

  • searchPages returns up to ten title suggestions, not a full-text search. Use a result's key as the title for getQuotes; a description may be absent.
  • getQuotes reads only lists directly under a top-level Quotes or Sourced heading. Subsections are omitted, so it can return very few items or fail on a page that has quotes. The full item text includes its nested notes; the separate source list can contain translations, variants or commentary rather than a citation, and can be empty. Formatting is flattened. Results are subject to the output cap; check truncated. Visit the page for full context.
  • Top-level Disputed and Misattributed sections are excluded, but attribution is not independently verified. Check those sections and the original source before relying on a quote.
  • quoteOfTheDay reads the current Main Page, not an archive. Its attribution is displayed text and may include punctuation or more than an author.
  • Wikiquote content is generally available under CC BY-SA. Check attribution, licensing and any rights in the quoted work before reuse.

About these operations

Each operation is a request learned from English Wikiquote's own web pages: API Anything replays it over plain HTTP and falls back to a browser when it must. Read them as JSON.

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