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