Programming Quotes

aid: programming-quotes
name: Programming Quotes
description: >-
  Free, open-source REST API serving a curated collection of programming-related quotes. Public endpoints return random
  quotes, paginated lists, author filters, and single quote lookups; authenticated endpoints support voting, favoriting,
  and quote authorship (CRUD). Originally seeded from the skolakoda community project on GitHub, the API is widely used
  as a demo data source and a free data feed for developer portfolio sites, tutorials, CLIs, and IDE extensions.
url: https://github.com/skolakoda/programming-quotes-api
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-05-28'
modified: '2026-05-30'
x-source: public-apis/public-apis
x-category: Personality
x-type: opensource
x-tier: 3
x-tier-reason: bulk-registered-from-public-apis
tags:
  - Personality
  - Public APIs
  - Open Source
  - Quotes
  - Programming
  - Developer Tools
apis:
  - name: Programming Quotes
    description: >-
      Public read endpoints (no auth) plus authenticated write endpoints over a MongoDB-backed corpus of programming
      quotes. Provides random quote lookups, paginated lists, author filtering, and full CRUD for authenticated
      contributors.
    humanURL: https://github.com/skolakoda/programming-quotes-api
    baseURL: https://programming-quotes-api.azurewebsites.net/api
    tags:
      - Personality
      - Quotes
      - Programming
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://github.com/skolakoda/programming-quotes-api#readme
      - type: SourceCode
        url: https://github.com/skolakoda/programming-quotes-api
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/programming-quotes-openapi.yml
      - type: SignUp
        url: https://github.com/skolakoda/programming-quotes-api#auth
      - type: JSONSchema
        title: Quote
        url: json-schema/programming-quotes-quote-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        title: QuoteInput
        url: json-schema/programming-quotes-quote-input-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        title: QuoteUpdate
        url: json-schema/programming-quotes-quote-update-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        title: VoteInput
        url: json-schema/programming-quotes-vote-input-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        title: AuthRequest
        url: json-schema/programming-quotes-auth-request-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        title: AuthResponse
        url: json-schema/programming-quotes-auth-response-schema.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        title: Quote
        url: json-structure/programming-quotes-quote-structure.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        title: QuoteInput
        url: json-structure/programming-quotes-quote-input-structure.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        title: QuoteUpdate
        url: json-structure/programming-quotes-quote-update-structure.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        title: VoteInput
        url: json-structure/programming-quotes-vote-input-structure.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        title: AuthRequest
        url: json-structure/programming-quotes-auth-request-structure.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        title: AuthResponse
        url: json-structure/programming-quotes-auth-response-structure.json
      - type: Examples
        url: examples/programming-quotes-quote-example.json
      - type: Examples
        url: examples/programming-quotes-quote-input-example.json
      - type: Examples
        url: examples/programming-quotes-quote-update-example.json
      - type: Examples
        url: examples/programming-quotes-vote-input-example.json
      - type: Examples
        url: examples/programming-quotes-auth-request-example.json
      - type: Examples
        url: examples/programming-quotes-auth-response-example.json
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://github.com/skolakoda/programming-quotes-api
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/skolakoda/programming-quotes-api
  - type: PublicAPIsListing
    url: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/skolakoda
  - type: License
    title: Unlicensed (community / open-source)
    url: https://github.com/skolakoda/programming-quotes-api
  - type: SpectralRuleset
    url: rules/programming-quotes-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/programming-quotes-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: json-ld/programming-quotes-context.jsonld
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com