kanye.rest

Free single-purpose REST API that returns random Kanye West quotes, dubbed "Kanye as a Service." Hosted on Cloudflare Workers, the API exposes a JSON endpoint, a plain-text endpoint, and a full-quotes-array endpoint. The underlying project is open source (MIT) under github.com/ajzbc/kanye.rest and is a popular example of a minimal "fun" public API.

kanye.rest publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Quotes API. Tagged areas include Personality, Quotes, Open Source, Cloudflare Workers, and Public APIs.

The kanye.rest catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

kanye.rest’s developer surface includes CLI, code examples, and 15 more developer resources.

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33.3/100 thin ▼ -6.6 Agent 35/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

1 APIs

PersonalityQuotesOpen SourceCloudflare WorkersPublic APIs

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 33.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 12.1 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13

Governance 8.3 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 35/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Quote

JSONSchema

QuoteList

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

SpectralRules

Vocabulary

JSONLD

Quote

QuoteList

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SourceCode

SourceCode

kanye.rest-cli (archived)

CLI

Quote Example

Examples

QuoteList Example

Examples

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 1

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MIT License

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Company 1

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Website

Website

Other 1

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PublicAPIsListing

PublicAPIsListing

Source (apis.yml)

aid: kanye-rest
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kanye-rest.png
name: kanye.rest
description: Free single-purpose REST API that returns random Kanye West quotes, dubbed "Kanye as a Service." Hosted on Cloudflare
  Workers, the API exposes a JSON endpoint, a plain-text endpoint, and a full-quotes-array endpoint. The underlying project
  is open source (MIT) under github.com/ajzbc/kanye.rest and is a popular example of a minimal "fun" public API.
url: https://kanye.rest
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-05-28'
modified: '2026-05-29'
x-source: public-apis/public-apis
x-type: opensource
x-category: Personality
x-tier: 3
x-tier-reason: bulk-registered-from-public-apis
tags:
- Personality
- Quotes
- Open Source
- Cloudflare Workers
- Public APIs
apis:
- aid: kanye-rest:kanye-rest-quotes-api
  name: kanye.rest Quotes API
  description: Endpoints that return random or bulk Kanye West quotes.
  humanURL: https://kanye.rest
  baseURL: https://api.kanye.rest
  tags:
  - Quotes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kanye-rest-quotes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kanye.rest
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/ajzbc/kanye.rest
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/kanye-rest-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kanye-rest-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://kanye.rest
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/ajzbc/kanye.rest
- type: License
  url: https://github.com/ajzbc/kanye.rest/blob/master/LICENSE
  title: MIT License
- type: CLI
  url: https://github.com/ajzbc/kanye.rest-cli
  title: kanye.rest-cli (archived)
- type: PublicAPIsListing
  url: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/kanye-rest-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/kanye-rest-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/kanye-rest-context.jsonld
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/kanye-rest-quote-schema.json
  title: Quote
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/kanye-rest-quote-list-schema.json
  title: QuoteList
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/kanye-rest-quote-structure.json
  title: Quote
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/kanye-rest-quote-list-structure.json
  title: QuoteList
- type: Examples
  url: examples/kanye-rest-quote-example.json
  title: Quote Example
- type: Examples
  url: examples/kanye-rest-quote-list-example.json
  title: QuoteList Example
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/kanye-rest-rate-limits.yml
features:
- name: Random Quote (JSON)
  description: Returns a single random Kanye West quote wrapped in a JSON object.
- name: Random Quote (Plain Text)
  description: Returns a single random Kanye West quote as plain text, useful for shell pipelines.
- name: Full Quote Collection
  description: Returns the complete array of available Kanye West quotes as JSON.
- name: No Authentication
  description: All endpoints are publicly accessible with no API key or token required.
- name: CORS-Enabled
  description: Responses include Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*" so the API is callable from any browser.
- name: Edge-Hosted
  description: Deployed on Cloudflare Workers, delivering responses from the global edge network.
useCases:
- name: Hello-World API Demo
  description: Used widely in tutorials and bootcamp curricula as a zero-friction example of consuming a REST API.
- name: Frontend Component Testing
  description: Lightweight fixture for testing fetch / loading / error states in UI frameworks without bringing up a backend.
- name: Shell One-Liners
  description: The /text endpoint produces shell-friendly output for cron jobs, daily-quote scripts, and motd files.
- name: Bot and Chatbot Integrations
  description: Plain-text quotes are easily injected into Slack, Discord, and Twitter bots.
integrations:
- name: Cloudflare Workers
  description: API runtime — every request is served from a Cloudflare Worker at the edge.
- name: GitHub
  description: Source of truth for the open source implementation and release history.
solutions:
- name: Public-APIs Catalog Entry
  description: Registered in the community-maintained public-apis directory under the Personality category.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

kanye.rest

Kin Score

APIs 1

kanye.rest Quotes API

Open Collections 1

Kanye REST

Rate Limits 1

Kanye Rest Rate Limits

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Kanye Rest Context

Spectral Rules 2

kanye.rest API Rules

kanye.rest API Rules

JSON Schema 2

QuoteList

Quote

JSON Structure 2

Kanye Rest Quote List Structure

Kanye Rest Quote Structure