PoetryDB · Example Payload

Get Poems By Author

GET /author/Shakespeare — returns all poems where author name contains 'Shakespeare'.

PoetryLiteraturePublic DomainEnglish LanguageSearchOpen Data

Get Poems By Author is an example object payload from PoetryDB, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

summarydescriptionrequestresponse

Example Payload

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{
  "summary": "Get poems by author (partial match)",
  "description": "GET /author/Shakespeare — returns all poems where author name contains 'Shakespeare'.",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://poetrydb.org/author/Shakespeare"
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": [
      {
        "title": "A Lover's Complaint",
        "author": "William Shakespeare",
        "lines": [
          "From off a hill whose concave womb reworded",
          "A plaintful story from a sistering vale,",
          "My spirits to attend this double voice accorded,",
          "And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale;"
        ],
        "linecount": "329"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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